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Nigeria: Boko Haram 'seize' Michika in Adamawa state

18 Sep 2014
Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram has captured the key north-eastern town of Michika, residents say, gaining more territory in its efforts to create an Islamic state. People fled into bushes as gunfire rang out in…

Sierra Leone: Ebola outbreak - British military sent to West Africa

18 Sep 2014
British military engineers and medics are being sent to Sierra Leone to help fight the world's largest-ever outbreak of Ebola. They will set up and run a treatment centre near the capital Freetown. The World Health…

Faith, refusing medicine and dependence on God = long life

05 Sep 2014
A 105-year-old South Carolina, US woman refuses to take medication, choosing instead to rely on the Lord to keep her well. Dorothy Geiger is a former minister who just recently stepped down from the pulpit. She…

Victory for Christian sacked over gay weddings

05 Sep 2014
Margaret Jones, a registrar who refused to marry same-sex couples, says she was sacked for her beliefs not for her actions. A marriage registrar has been vindicated by a council’s reversal of its decision to sack…