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A health worker is reflected in a mirror as he prepares protective equipment in Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown. Cuba has dispatched 165 health workers to the country to combat the Ebola outbreak.
Health
How Cuba is leading the international fight against Ebola
A girl rides a bicycle on a balcony in the "Tower of David" skyscraper.
Development
This South American city is home to the ‘world’s tallest squat’
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella speaks at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Business
Telling women not to ask for raises wasn’t a gaffe — it was a long-established tradition
A polar bear walks along the shore of Hudson Bay, Canada.
Environment
Trick or treat? Not in a northern Canadian town where it’s polar bear season
Protesters are pepper sprayed by riot police during a confrontation in the Mong Kok shopping district of Hong Kong on Friday evening.
Media
Hong Kongers see their famously freewheeling press under threat
A Syrian woman holding her infant waits near an informal border crossing to go back to Kobane, Syria, despite ongoing clashes between ISIS and Kurdish fighters. Many Syrian Kurds are finding Turkey expensive and inhospitable.
Conflict
Kurds threaten dark days for Turkey if Kobane falls
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for October 17, 2014
PFC Justin Blue of the 3rd Platoon, Apache Troop, 1st Squadron, 75th Calvary Regiment, from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He is taking a break while on patrol near the village of Qalandrakhel  a few miles outside of B
Conflict
Using a pencil, not a lens, to capture images of the war in Afghanistan
Health workers remove the body a woman who died from the Ebola virus in the Aberdeen district of Freetown, Sierra Leone, on October 14, 2014.
Health
One story describes the oppressive Ebola ‘siege’ in Sierra Leone