An Italian judge will decide who are the legal parents of IVF twins whose embryo was implanted into the wrong mother, a Rome court heard on Friday.

In a case which has gripped the country, two couples are fighting for the custody of the babies born on Sunday whose fertilized embryos were mixed up in a Rome hospital.

A Greek man who was suspected of carrying the Ebola virus has instead tested positive for malaria, the health ministry said on Friday.

The man, an architect who had recently traveled to Nigeria, underwent tests at an Athens hospital after becoming concerned for his own health.

The World Health Organization on Friday declared the killer Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of west Africa an international health emergency and appealed for global aid to help afflicted countries.

The decision came after a rare meeting of the U.N. health body's emergency committee, which urged screening of all people flying out of affected countries, where nearly 1,000 people have died

He may be more than a century old but Hafeezullah still goes to work every day. 

With the aid of a cane, the wizened white-bearded centenarian tends to his fields in Pakistan's hauntingly beautiful Neelum Valley just as he did when Britain still ruled this part of the world.

People with symptoms of Ebola will inevitably spread worldwide due to the nature of global airline travel, but any outbreak in the U.S. is not likely to be large, health authorities say.

Already one man with dual U.S.-Liberian citizenship has died from Ebola, after becoming sick on a plane from Monrovia to Lagos and exposing as many as seven other people in Nigeria.

A pharmacist helps a customer at a branch of Walgreens on September 19, 2013 in Wheeling, Illinois

U.S. drugstore giant Walgreens Wednesday said it will buy the remaining stake of British counterpart Alliance Boots, but that it will not relocate its headquarters overseas to save taxes.

The decision to use an experimental drug to treat two Americans infected with Ebola, while nearly 1,000 Africans have already died from the deadly epidemic, has sparked controversy -- but U.S. experts say it was ethically justified.

The World Health Organization announced Wednesday it was convening a special meeting next week to explore using experimental drugs in the West African outbreak, after two health workers from the U.S. charity Samaritan's Purse were treated with a drug called ZMapp.

It's long been known that faulty BRCA genes greatly raise the risk for breast cancer. Now scientists say a more recently identified, less common gene can do the same.

Mutations in the gene can make breast cancer up to nine times more likely to develop, an international team of researchers reports in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.

The world must learn from the fight against AIDS to help beat the deadliest-ever outbreak of Ebola, the new global head of the Red Cross said on Wednesday.

While strict measures are needed to defeat Ebola in West Africa, dishing out blame will not help, said Elhadj As Sy, chief of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

The death toll of the Ebola epidemic neared 1,000 Wednesday as fears rose that the disease is now taking hold in Africa's most populous nation of Nigeria after a second death among seven confirmed cases in Lagos.

The spread of the disease comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) met in an emergency session in Geneva to decide whether to declare an international crisis.