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Polis vaktar ett sjukhus med patienter som insjuknat i ebolaviruset i staden Kenema i Sierra Leone, efter att upprörda folkmassor hotat att bränna ned sjukhuset.

En kvinna i 45-årsåldern hittades död i sin bostad i Stora Herrestad norr om Ystad på lördagen. Polisen larmades till platsen strax före 16-tiden.

En man i 70-årsåldern drunknade under lördagen i samband med fiske i Männikkö i Pajala kommun.

McGruber (1417641) writes In Atlanta, an electrical problem in a "Buss Duct" has caused the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center to be closed for at least a week. 5,000 federal employees work at the center. While many might view this as another example of The Infrastructure Crisis in the USA, it might actually be another example of mismanagement at the complex's landlord, the General Service Administration (GSA). Probably no one wants to go to work in an Atlanta July without a working A/C.

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Miljonbelopp har försnillats från Röda Korset i Brasilien, skriver tidningen Folha de São Paulo. Pengarna skulle ha gått till behövande i Somalia, till Japan efter tsunamikatastrofen och till dem som drabbats av översvämningar i Brasilien.

Knappt hade det tolv timmar långa eldupphöret hunnit löpa ut förrän Israel besköts med raketer och granater från Gaza. Men enligt israeliska armén innebär det ingen allvarlig överträdelse av eldupphöret.

En person har hittats avliden i en bostad i Stora Herrestad norr om Ystad. Polisen larmades till platsen strax före 16-tiden.

Nate the greatest (2261802) writes with news made public Friday that Apple has acquired a little known ebook company called Booklamp, a small Idaho-based ebook startup which is best known for the Book Genome Project. First shown off to the world in 2008, this project was conceived by Booklamp founder and CEO Aaron Stanton as a way of analyzing a book's pacing, dialog, perspective, genre, and other details in order to identify a book's unique DNA. Booklamp has been using the tech to sell various services to publishers, tech companies, and the like, but Booklamps's existing contracts were apparently cancelled earlier this year. According to one industry insider the deal happened in April, but Apple managed to keep the news under wraps until just last night. No one knows for sure how Apple will use booklamp but there is speculation that Apple could launch an ebook subscription service similar to the week-old Kindle Unlimited, or they could just use Booklamp to drive ebook recommendations in what some are speculating is the world's second largest ebookstore.