Germany's federal prosecutor has taken over the investigation into a knife attack on a teacher in the western city of Essen, citing suspicion of attempted murder and a possible Islamist motive. The suspect, a 17-year-old Kosovar student, is accused of stabbing a 45-year-old teacher at a vocational college a week ago, seriously injuring her, the Karlsruhe-based prosecutor's office said on Friday. He fled the scene and then stabbed an unrelated man in the back on the street before being shot and severely wounded by police near the city’s main train station, law enforcement said. According to pro...
A vaccination campaign is due to begin in the Congo at the weekend in response to the Ebola outbreak in the Central African country, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. A first batch of 400 vaccine doses arrived by helicopter in the remote affected area earlier in the day, Patrick Otim, the local head of WHO operations, told reporters in Geneva. A new confirmed case around 70 kilometres from the outbreak area in the Bulape region of Kasaï province is fuelling concerns about a wider spread of the often fatal disease. Aid workers who reached the area have identified hundreds of p...