The NHS and social care systems in England need to be merged in the most radical overhaul since they were created in the 1940s, an independent review says.

More than 1,900 people have now died in West Africa's Ebola outbreak, 40% of them in the past three weeks, the World Health Organization says.

Somebody dies by killing themselves every 40 seconds, according to a major report by the World Health Organization.

A US aid worker infected with Ebola in Liberia has been identified as a family doctor from Massachusetts.