Time is running out to meet our biggest cousin, writes Sandy Kilgour.

Kiwis shouldn’t feel “overly worried” about the threat to New Zealand of the deadly disease Ebola, Prime Minister John Key says.

Latest updates on the Ebola outbreak: New Zealand is "not immune" to the arrival of the deadly Ebola disease, Prime Minister John Key says.

The leaders of three Ebola-stricken West African nations are meeting heads of the UN, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to discuss the outbreak.

Unicef New Zealand has launched an emergency appeal for urgently needed financial support in the fight against the rapid spread of the Ebola virus.

Diamonds are so hard to find that explorers have pretty much given up trying.

Loud, hot, crazy, confronting and the hostel's full of bedbugs - Nicky Park loved every minute in Morocco.

If you're into Africa, a luxury flying safari is the way to see - and taste - the continent at its best, writes Sandy Kilgour.

What makes the Ebola virus so terrifying is not its kill rate or its exponential growth. It's the fact that it threatens humanity by preying on humanity.

Oscar Pistorius might not have to spend the rest of his life in prison, but it will be difficult for him to avoid serving at least eight years, experts say.

The leading scientists have launched an attack on "Big Pharma", accusing drugs giants of failing to manufacture a vaccine, because there was "no business case".

Sierra Leone's proposed countrywide 'lockdown' will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease spreading further as cases are concealed, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) claimed today.

Disturbing video footage shows an Ebola victim who'd escaped from hospital walking through a Monrovia market, sending hundreds fleeing in fear.

The UN's new leader on Ebola says the fight against the epidemic is a "war" which could take another six months.

The largest-ever outbreak of Ebola was triggered by a toddler's chance contact with a single infected bat, a team of international researchers have concluded.

As Muammar Gaddafi's regime began to unravel in 2011, amid chaotic fighting between Libya's military and rebels, foreign nations rushed to withdraw their citizens.

The guys who hang off Madison Ave in East Harlem are not what most people would describe as news-and-current affairs junkies.

In an era when the next pandemic can seem just a pathogen away, Ebola still retains a grisly fascination.

New Zealand health experts are making contingency plans to manage the ebola virus in case the deadly disease arrives from West Africa.

As Ebola, Mers and HIV/Aids make headlines, what are the biggest risks to the world's health? And what is being done about them?

He's been labelled a 'national hero' for battling Sierra Leone's deadly Ebola outbreak. Now he's been infected with the disease that has no cure.

Morocco's Atlas Mountains are home to awe-inspiring castles, harsh deserts and breathtaking gorges. At their heart lies Ouarzazate, writes John Gimlette.

Following the Garden Route, Paul Rush found the untamed Africa he always dreamed about.

A pan-African court set up to prosecute the continent's worst criminals will not be allowed to try sitting heads of state or their cronies after they voted to give themselves immunity.

Twenty years ago the citizens of Lubango struggled to find fresh bread. Now Angola's third-biggest city is luring investors in power plants, mines - and Swiss cheese.

In the mid-1990s, Gus, a polar bear in the Central Park Zoo, alarmed visitors by compulsively swimming figure eights in his pool, sometimes for 12 hours a day.