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Togo wants qualifier moved out of Ebola-hit Guinea 08/11/2014 11:20pm • BLAME EKOUE Associated Press LOME, Togo (AP) -- Fearful Togo officials have asked the African soccer confederation to move a game out of Ebola-affected Guinea as the outbreak of the deadly disease threatens to badly disrupt the African Cup's final qualifying round.Games involving Sierra Leone are al UN: Ebola outbreak a public health emergency 08/11/2014 10:20pm • MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization urged nations worldwide to donate money and resources to stop the spread of Ebola as it declared the outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency.The latest Ebola outbreak is the largest and longest Military appeals court to hear Kansas HIV appeal 08/11/2014 07:36pm • ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- The nation's highest military court has agreed to review the evidence used to convict a Kansas airman of aggravated assault for exposing multiple sex partners to HIV at swinger parties in Wichita, an appeal the defense contends could potentially Missionaries return to US and Ebola quarantine 08/11/2014 07:08pm • TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Three missionaries who worked with patients infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia are back in the United States and feeling upbeat after their trans-Atlantic charter flight, the head of the North Carolina-based mission hosting them said Mon What's scary about Ebola, reasons not to fear it 08/11/2014 04:02pm • CONNIE CASS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States' top disease detective calls Ebola a "painful, dreadful, merciless virus."The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak in West Africa an international emergency, killing more than 900 people and spreading.That's scary and s Missionaries return to US, in Ebola quarantine 08/11/2014 01:00pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Three missionaries who worked with patients infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia have returned to the United States.Health officials say the aid worker and two doctors are all healthy, but they will be kept in quarantine in Charlotte to make sure they do not have Ebola. T Ebola starting to take an economic toll in region 08/11/2014 11:36am • PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Caterpillar has evacuated a handful of employees from Liberia. Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd. has suspended a drilling project. British Airways has canceled flights to the region. ExxonMobil and Chevron are waiting to see whether health officials Stocks up...Spain imports Ebola drug...Barneys to pay $525K to settle profiling probe 08/11/2014 11:30am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are higher in morning trading on Wall Street. Russia's ending of military exercises near Ukraine and its withdrawal of troops to their bases is easing concerns about a possible invasion of Ukraine. Tame inflation in China also is boosting investors' outlook. With overseas mar US doctor, aid worker appear to be improving 08/11/2014 06:50am • KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- An American doctor infected with Ebola while working in Liberia indicated Friday he's getting stronger every day, and the husband of a second aid worker with the deadly virus said his wife also seems to be improving.Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, Liberians demand that govt picks up Ebola bodies 08/11/2014 05:40am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVA, Liberia (AP) -- Riot police raced to quell a demonstration blocking Liberia's busiest highway Saturday as an angry crowd protested the government's delays in collecting the bodies of Ebola victims.In Guinea, where the deadly Ebola outbreak emerged in Ma Redskins' Hall bruises back in practice tumble 08/10/2014 06:10pm • JOSEPH WHITE AP Sports Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Washington Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall was "just a little sore" with a bruised back after an awkward landing during training camp practice Sunday, while linebacker Darryl Sharpton could be out several weeks with a high ankle sprain.Coach Jay 25 years ago, a different Ebola outbreak in Va. 08/10/2014 02:56pm • MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press RESTON, Va. (AP) -- It had all the makings of a public-health horror story: an outbreak of a wildly deadly virus on the doorstep of the nation's capital, with dozens of lab monkeys dead, multiple people testing positive, and no precedent in this country on how to con Deadly disease threatens world's amphibians 08/10/2014 02:08pm • WASHINGTON -- The threat of the Ebola virus has generated concern across the globe. Among wildlife ecologists, another deadly virus is raising worldwide alarm: the ranavirus. "This is a devastating disease" explains Jonathan McKnight, associate director of the Natural Heritage Program at the Ma US Ebola check means quarantine of missionaries 08/10/2014 12:40pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Missionaries retuning to the United States after working with patients infected with Ebola will be put in quarantine and monitored, health officials said Sunday.The quarantine will last at least three weeks since the missionaries were last exposed to people infected with the Saudi: Suspected Ebola victim did not have virus 08/10/2014 12:10pm • RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- A Saudi man who died last week after returning from Sierra Leone did not have the Ebola virus, according to initial international laboratory results, Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry said.The ministry said late Saturday that samples submitted to the U.S. Centers for Diseas