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An ambulance enters the emergency area at the Alcorcón hospital outside Madrid. The Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola while treating infected patients is currently in isolation at the facility.
Media
There’s a fine line between reporting about Ebola and spreading panic
Jennifer is a transgender Army veteran who began making her transition into a woman while she was deployed to Afghanistan.
Culture
Transitioning to being a woman while serving in Afghanistan was like ‘puberty in a combat zone’
Smoke rises after a US-led air strike in the Syrian town of Kobane on October 8, 2014.
Conflict
Airstrikes in Kobane aren’t relieving the desperation among Kurdish refugees
Fruit bats like the ones pictured here are often key vectors for diseases like Ebola, and disturbing their habitats may have made humans more vulnerable.
Environment
Here’s how cutting down West African trees made us vulnerable to Ebola
French writer Patrick Modiano poses for journalists in Paris on October 9, 2014, after he was declared the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Books
And the Nobel Prize in Literature goes to — who?
Kang Chun-hyok is an aspiring rapper in Seoul. He's also a defector from North Korea, and his music reflects what life was like there.
Music
This North Korean rapper’s lyrics draw on his experience eating tree bark and drinking from puddles
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for October 9, 2014
Suited up for the news, a cartoon by Slovakian cartoonist Marian Kemensky.
Arts
An international cartoonists’ conference shows off the artists’ wit and predictive power