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African Cup dates stay, Morocco given deadline 11/03/2014 12:39pm • GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer There will be no change to the dates for next year's African Cup of Nations despite the Ebola outbreak, the Confederation of African Football said Monday.CAF also said host country Morocco has until Saturday to agree to the schedule or lose the tournament.CAF maintained AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Asia 11/03/2014 12:04pm • Associated Press Hundreds of thousands of camels, horses and cattle were brought to the huge annual cattle fair last week in Pushkar, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. The fair and camel races draw foreign tourists as well as many Hindus to take a dip in Pushkar Lake, which they believe was Africans worst responders in Ebola crisis 11/03/2014 09:30am • MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The head of Africa's continental body did not get to an Ebola-hit country until last week -- months after alarm bells first rang and nearly 5,000 deaths later.Pledges to deploy 2,000 African health workers have remained largely that -- promises.No Superheroes, hazmat suits in NY Halloween parade 11/03/2014 07:26am • BERNARD VAUGHAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Bloody zombies lumbered alongside superheroes, cowboys shared the road with villains and marchers in hazardous-materials garb evoked the Ebola crisis as the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade made its freewheeling way through downtown Manhattan on Fr Sierra Leone doctor tests positive for Ebola 11/03/2014 07:00am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Authorities in Sierra Leone said Sunday that another doctor there has tested positive for Ebola, marking a setback for efforts to keep desperately needed health care workers safe in the West African country ravaged by the deadly v 3 Tips to Navigate Market Volatility 11/03/2014 12:00am • During the months of September and October, the stock market dealt investors more falling stocks than rising ones. Some may suggest the 2014 market has been worse than many years in recent memory. Although that remains to be seen, 2014 has been what I call a "year of fear."The year began with an ext Spanish woman cured of Ebola moves to normal room 11/02/2014 09:58pm • HAROLD HECKLE Associated Press MADRID (AP) -- A Spanish nursing assistant who recovered from an Ebola virus infection has left the isolation unit where she was being monitored and moved to a normal room, a hospital statement said Saturday.Teresa Romero tested positive on Oct 6, but was declared cure Soldier or civilian, Ebola protocols not the same 11/02/2014 08:18pm • ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. soldier returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa would have to spend 21 days being monitored, isolated in a military facility away from family and the broader population. A returning civilian doctor or nurse who directly treated Nurse free to move about as restrictions eased 11/02/2014 01:10pm • ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press FORT KENT, Maine (AP) -- A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone can move about as she pleases after a Maine judge eased state-imposed restrictions on her, handing officials in Maine a defeat in the nation's biggest court case yet over how to balance pers A look at Ebola guidelines in some states 11/02/2014 01:00pm • JULIE WATSON Associated Press States have broad authority to quarantine people to prevent the spread of disease, and several are exercising that right to go beyond the safety recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control for containing the deadly Ebola virus.The CDC says mandatory quarantines o Medicare paid for meds after patients were dead 11/02/2014 11:36am • RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Call it drugs for the departed: A quirky bureaucratic rule led Medicare's prescription drug program to pay for costly medications even after the patients were dead.That head-scratching policy is now getting a second look.A report released F Salvador detective won't let the dead lie silent 11/02/2014 06:46am • ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- A hundred yards below a private cemetery where generals have gathered for a military funeral, ghostly figures in white protective suits are digging up a clandestine grave next to a fetid river.It is painstaking labor in a land littered Dallas nurse who survived Ebola reunited with dog 11/01/2014 01:40pm • DIANA HEIDGERD Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- A Dallas nurse who recovered from Ebola has been reunited with her dog named Bentley, who has been quarantined since she fell ill.Nina Pham and the King Charles Spaniel were reunited privately on Saturday in a vacant residence where officers once lived Ebola case highlights work of NYC disease sleuths 11/01/2014 10:34am • COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's disease detectives were off and running the moment the call came in from a doctor who suspected he had Ebola.As hazmat-suited emergency teams were preparing to transport Dr. Craig Spencer to Bellevue Hospital, health workers were talking Amid Ebola scare, Canada restricts visas 11/01/2014 08:24am • ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's Conservative government said it is suspending visa applications for residents and nationals of countries with "widespread and persistent-intense transmission" of the Ebola virus.With Friday's decision, Canada joined Australia in suspending entry