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As the world celebrates the seventh Global Handwashing Day, UNICEF said the fight against Ebola further underscores the practice of handwashing in disease prevention.

From the headquarters of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in Accra, Ghana, UN envoy Anthony Banbury (on monitor) briefs the Security Council on the Ebola outbreak, via video.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a US$100 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) to improve maternal, newborn and child health in Myanmar.

What exactly is novel food? A new proposal setting out to define novel food and streamline the authorisation process will be discussed by the EP's food safety committee. The European Commission already proposed in 2008 to revise existing regulation, but politicians were unable to agree on it because it include food from cloned animals, which is not part of the new proposal. Follow the discussion live on our website.

Making “scents” of new cells in the brain’s odor-processing area
Adult-born cells travel through the thin rostral migratory stream before settling into the olfactory bulb, the large structure in the upper right of the image.

A cargo plane with nearly 100 metric tons of essential medical supplies left Amsterdam en route to Sierra Leone as part of UNICEF’s continuing response to the Ebola outbreak ravaging parts of West Africa. Similar flights are planned for Liberia and Guinea, part of a €1 million donation from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO).