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Ebola outbreak 'moving faster than efforts to control it'
The Ebola outbreak in west Africa is moving faster than efforts to control it, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.
Director-general of WHO Dr Margaret Chan claimed governments may need to impose restrictions on population movements and public gatherings in order to contain the deadly virus, which has killed 729 people.
An emergency committee will meet next week to decide if the crisis constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern".
Speaking to the presidents of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast, Chan said the virus can be contained but the severity of the issue has outstripped their countries' capacity to respond.
Police may also have to be used to guarantee the safety of Ebola response teams, Chan added.
Foreign Office to look at British-Israeli soldier reports
The Foreign Office is "urgently looking" into reports that a soldier captured by Hamas in Gaza is British-Israeli, a spokesman has said.
Channel 4 News reported that the soldier is a British-Israeli cousin of Israel's defence minister.
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Israel-Hamas ceasefire hopes 'have been suspended'
Hopes for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire "have been suspended," ITV News Middle East Correspondent Geraint Vincent reports from Tel Aviv:
Teenage drug dealer given five years after MDMA death
An 18 year-old drug dealer who targeted schoolboys has been sentenced to five years in prison after a youngster "with everything to live for" died after taking ecstasy.
Daniel Spargo-Mabbs, 16, of Croydon, died of multiple organ failure three days after taking MDMA, or ecstasy, when he went to a a rave in Hayes, west London, in January.
He was among of group of five friends who had asked for the class A drug before the party.
Nicqueel Pitrora, of Croydon, admitted being concerned in the supply of class A drugs on January 17.
He also pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of class B drugs between January 1 2013 and January 16 2014, and possession of class B drugs (cannabis) on January 21.
Nicola Adams wins spot in boxing final
Nicola Adams' hopes of boxing gold at the Commonwealth Games are a step nearer after winning the women's fly semi-final. She beat Canada's Mandy Bujold 3 - 0.
Adams will now go through to the final on Saturday against Northern Ireland's Michaela Walsh, when she will be in with a chance of being crowned the Games' first women's boxing champion.
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Man swings dog around his head using the animal's lead
The Chihauhau's owner had no idea what happened until the video was posted on Facebook.
Read the full storyConstant shelling 'within two hours of ceasefire'
Within an hour and a half to two hours of the ceasefire taking place there were "constant and repeated heavy artillery barrages" at Khan Younis, located close to the Gaza-Israeli border.
ITV News International Affairs Editor Rageh Omaar reports from Gaza:
Israel names soldier suspected to have been captured
The Israeli military has named the soldier believed to have been captured by Hamas militants this morning:
2nd. Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23 from Kfar Saba, is the soldier suspected to be kidnapped by Hamas earlier today.
We suspect that a group of Hamas terrorists, including a suicide attacker, kidnapped 2nd. Lt. Goldin at 9:30AM & dragged him into a tunnel.
Hamas terrorists killed two IDF soldiers during the suspected kidnapping of 2nd Lt. Goldin this morning.
White House: Hamas attack would be 'barbaric violation'
The White House said a reported Hamas attack on Israeli soldiers would be a "barbaric violation" of the ceasefire agreement.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a White House spokesman Josh Earnest told CNN.
