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Business Highlights 10/17/2014 06:08pm • The Associated Press ___Europe's top powers deadlocked as economy sinksFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Europe's economy needs help -- fast. Yet the two powers that could take action, the European Central Bank and Germany, don't see eye to eye about what to do.That leaves Europe's currency union stuck in UN health agency: Ebola outbreak over in Senegal 10/17/2014 05:18pm • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. health agency officially declared an end Friday to the Ebola outbreak in Senegal, a rare bit of good news amid the public outcry and fear over the deadly disease that remains out of control in three West African countries.The World Health Organi Pentagon reacts to sick woman who claimed she'd been to Africa 10/17/2014 05:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense officials say seven officers who assisted a woman who fell ill in a Pentagon parking lot today are being isolated and might be kept in a tent at the Pentagon overnight.The woman became sick and told emergency personnel that she had recently been to West Africa.An Arlington US senators seek answers on Ebola prep in Va. 10/17/2014 03:49pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine are asking Virginia hospital and health officials how prepared the state is to deal with any patients who have symptoms of Ebola.The Virginia Democrats expressed their concerns in a letter to Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Services W Nurses legal rights limited if they contract Ebola 10/17/2014 03:36pm • WASHINGTON -- Health care workers are on the front lines of the battle against Ebola. In Dallas, two nurses got the disease from an infected Liberian. And some people are saying they ought to sue Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital for negligence. But if the nurses are hospital employees, t Relief rally...Company to test drug on Ebola patients...Tighter security for federal benefit cards 10/17/2014 03:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- One analyst is describing the surge on Wall Street today as "a relief rally." Investors have been riding wild swings this week amid concerns about weak economic growth in Europe, plunging oil prices and geopolitical uncertainties such as the fight against the Islamic State group and Ebola fears prompt big responses around globe 10/17/2014 01:58pm • The Associated Press Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluid, such as getting an infected person's blood or vomit into the eyes or through a cut in the skin, not through the air, experts say. And people infected with Ebola aren't contagious until they start showing symptoms, s Texas Gov. Perry calls for travel ban due to Ebola 10/17/2014 01:40pm • DALLAS (AP) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry has joined calls for an air travel ban from countries hit the hardest by Ebola.Perry said Friday that air travel is how Ebola crosses borders and that's how it arrived in Texas, so an air travel ban is the right policy.A Texas hospital had the first person diagno Kerry: Ebola presents 'test of global citizenship' 10/17/2014 12:20pm • LARA JAKES AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State John Kerry is pleading with diplomats from around the world to donate more money and aid to West African nations battling the Ebola virus.Kerry calls it a real test of global citizenship. He spoke Friday to the diplomatic c Maryland officials discuss Ebola preparedness 10/17/2014 12:10pm • BRIAN WITTE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) -- Maryland health officials are outlining extensive efforts to monitor for any Ebola virus developments in the state.Gov. Martin O'Malley held a news conference with state health officials to discuss collaborative efforts with hospitals in Maryland, Virgi UN: We botched response to Ebola outbreak 10/17/2014 11:49am • LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization is admitting that it botched attempts to stop the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.The U.N. agency blames factors including incompetent staff and a lack of information.In a draft internal document obtained by The Associated Press, WHO says that "nearly every Obama: Ebola point person 'may be appropriate' 10/17/2014 10:14am • JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under pressure to select an Ebola "czar" to lead the U.S. response against the disease, President Barack Obama conceded Thursday it "may be appropriate" to designate a single individual to head the administration effort.Obama also said he is "not phil Africa stems Ebola via border closings, luck 10/17/2014 10:07am • LYNSEY CHUTEL Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa have managed to limit its spread on the continent to five countries -- and two of them appear to have snuffed out the disease.The developments cons UPDATE (2): Sick Woman at Pentagon Does Not Have Ebola 10/17/2014 10:05am • Update at 5:10 p.m. — Arlington County officials say in a press release that the woman who was sick at the Pentagon this morning does not have Ebola. Based on the public health investigation, which included the travel history of a woman who became ill this morning in a Pentagon parking lot, South Africa reluctant to host 2015 African Cup 10/17/2014 10:00am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa is reluctant to step in as a last-minute host for next year's African Cup of Nations because the sport ministry fears Ebola and unplanned staging costs."There are just too many factors to consider for South Africa," the department of sport and recreation said in a s