Miss Vietnam wins best national costume in Miss International 2019 Việt Nam’s representative at Miss International 2019, Nguyễn Tường San, made history by winning the Best National Costume award at the beauty pageant that concluded yesterday in Tokyo, Japan.

Europe gives go ahead to market Ebola vaccine The European Union authorised the marketing of a vaccine against Ebola on Monday, permitting the first wider commercial use of a protection that has helped stem an outbreak in DR Congo.

26 pupils, two teachers killed in Liberia school fire A huge fire at a Liberian Koranic school killed at least 26 pupils and two teachers on Wednesday when flames engulfed their dormitory, in one of the worst disasters of its kind for the West African nation.

DR Congo Ebola epidemic widens on eve of first anniversary An Ebola epidemic in eastern DR Congo sharply widened on Wednesday, the eve of the first anniversary of the outbreak, with one death and another diagnosis reported and the quarantining of 15 people in a previously unaffected province.

Liberia's Weah faces key test with protests over economy Liberian President George Weah faces a key test on Friday when demonstrators take to the streets of Monrovia to protest at inflation and corruption.

Liberians demonstrate after new banknotes vanish into thin air

Hundreds of Liberians took to the streets of the capital Monrovia on Monday to demonstrate over the disappearance of newly printed bills worth nearly $100 million.

100 cakes of heroin detected in imported scrap container

Customs Department in the southern province of Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu found 100 cakes of heroin (about 35kg), hidden in a container of imported scrap.

WHO reports new Ebola case in DR Congo, vaccine this week

The head of the World Health Organization said Sunday there has been another reported case of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and that an experimental vaccine to fight the disease is expected to become available in the country this week.

Weah wins landmark Liberia presidential poll

Former star footballer George Weah was named winner of Liberia's presidential election on Thursday, easily beating his challenger in the country's first democratic transfer of power in seven decades scarred by civil wars, political assassinations and an Ebola crisis.

Liberians to choose new leader in delayed presidential vote

Liberians go to the polls Tuesday to select either former international footballer George Weah or Vice President Joseph Boakai as their new president, in a vote that analysts say is too close to call.