LONDON: Up to 30,000 people could have used experimental treatments or vaccines so far in the world's worst outbreak of Ebola currently plaguing West Africa, British scientists said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON: Former Newsweek International editor and prominent talking head and policy pundit Fareed Zakaria is again facing allegations of plagiarism.

TOKYO: At least 18 people were killed and another 13 were still missing after a huge landslide engulfed homes in western Japan, reports said on Wednesday.

MONROVIA, Liberia: Liberia's president declared a curfew and ordered security forces to quarantine a slum home to at least 50,000 people late Tuesday as the West African country battled to stop the spread of Ebola in the capital.

MUMBAI: Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Steel has entered into a definitive agreement with Welspun Enterprise (WEL), to acquire the entire equity shares held by the latter in Welspun Maxsteel (WMSL) for an enterprise value of Rs 1,000 crore plus net current assets as of August 31.

FERGUSON: Riot police, late on Sunday, hurled teargas and marched on rioters in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson, wracked by race riots since police shot dead an unarmed black teenager.

TRIPOLI: Unidentified war planes flew over the Libyan capital Tripoli early on Monday and explosions could be heard, residents said.

 The Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza accused Israel on Friday of a cross-border shooting in violation of a truce that has largely held since getting off to a shaky start on Thursday.

MAIDUGURI (Nigeria): Nigeria's Boko Haram militant group kidnapped 100 people earlier this month but most were freed by security forces from neighbouring Chad, a Nigerian security official and a local self-defense member said today.

 BAGHDAD: Facing enormous pressure at home and abroad to step aside, Nuri al-Maliki dropped his bid for a third term as prime minister of Iraq on Thursday and pledged support for his replacement, moderate Shia Haider al-Abadi.