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Iran arrests suspected nuclear plant saboteur 09/07/2014 04:40am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian authorities have arrested a Ukrainian national suspected of sabotage at the country's sole nuclear power plant, an Iranian newspaper reported on Sunday.The report in the Hamshahri daily said the "Ukrainian expert" was affiliated with a Russian contractor that works in Ir Zeal, devotion guides volunteers to Ebola crisis 09/07/2014 12:16am • MITCH WEISS & TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Working with Ebola patients in Liberia, American pediatrician Alan Jamison treated as many people as he could as the country slipped into chaos. Each day, more patients showed up at the hospital's doors. The deadly virus wasn't the US doctor infected with Ebola in stable condition 09/06/2014 11:14pm • MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A doctor who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia -- the third American aid worker sickened with the virus -- is sick but in stable condition and communicating with his caregivers at the Nebraska Medical Center.Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, i WHO: Use Ebola survivors' blood to treat patients 09/06/2014 12:00pm • MARIA CHENG Associated Press LONDON (AP) -- Desperate to restore hope amid the Ebola crisis, the World Health Organization said Friday it would accelerate the use of experimental treatments and vaccines to contain the expanding epidemic in West Africa.After convening a two-day meeting of more than 2 AP Photos: HIV patients in Myanmar struggle 09/06/2014 03:30am • GEMUNU AMARASINGHE Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar, which only recently emerged from a half-century of dictatorship and self-imposed isolation, has one of the world's worst health care systems, with tens of thousands dying each year because treatment is lacking for many diseases, in US doctor infected with Ebola in stable condition 09/06/2014 02:58am • MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A doctor who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia is sick but in stable condition and communicating with his caregivers at the Nebraska Medical Center, officials said Friday.Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, is being treated at a 10-bed special i A look at Nebraska unit treating Ebola patient 09/05/2014 10:18pm • MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A third American aid worker, Dr. Rick Sacra, to be treated in the U.S. for the deadly Ebola virus arrived Friday at the Nebraska Medical Center's isolation unit -- the largest in the country.Here are some questions and answers about the Omaha unit Priest with HIV pleads guilty to soliciting sex 09/05/2014 05:10pm • CLEVELAND (AP) -- An HIV-positive priest has pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a Cleveland-area park ranger.The 69-year-old Rev. James McGonegal (muh-GAHN'-ee-gul) was arrested nearly a year ago after he solicited a park ranger near downtown Cleveland. He was charged with felony soliciting becau US to provide $75M to expand Ebola care centers 09/05/2014 09:58am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- The American aid agency announced Thursday it would donate $75 million to fund 1,000 more beds in Ebola treatment centers in Liberia and buy 130,000 more protective suits for health care workers.West Africa's struggling health systems h Filipino nurse thought to have MERS virus did not 09/05/2014 05:30am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Filipino nurse who was thought to have contracted Middle East respiratory syndrome while working in Saudi Arabia never had the virus, Philippine health officials said Friday.The attempts to trace all of the nurse's fellow passengers from Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight US doctor infected with Ebola heading to Nebraska 09/05/2014 01:34am • MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A doctor who was infected with Ebola while working in Liberia is being flown to a Nebraska hospital for treatment, doctors there said Thursday.Officials at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha said Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, is expected to arrive sometim Sony attack shows shifting online security threat 09/04/2014 01:14pm • YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) -- The boundary between the online and physical worlds got blurry last week when Sony's PlayStation Network was disabled by an online attack, while simultaneously an American Airlines passenger jet carrying a Sony executive was diverted due to a bomb threa WHO: New Ebola fears mount in Nigeria 09/04/2014 09:16am • MARIA CHENG Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- An ill doctor in southern Nigeria exposed dozens of people to the Ebola virus by continuing to treat patients before his death, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday as it announced the toll across West Africa had surged above 1,900 fatali African Cup: Drogba, Eto'o gone, problems remain 09/04/2014 05:56am • GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- A deadly disease outbreak, fraud and cheating, and a player killed by his own fans. African football just can't shake its reputation for chaos.Two months after an embarrassing World Cup for the continent marked by player strike threats an Ebola survivors: Hospital staff exposed in Africa 09/04/2014 05:50am • MITCH WEISS Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The hospital in Liberia where three American aid workers got sick with Ebola has been overwhelmed by a surge in patients and doesn't have enough hazard suits and other supplies to keep doctors and nurses safe, a missionary couple told The Associat