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Ebola reaches Italy: Doctor who became the country's first victim of the disease is flown into Rome in specially sealed military plane Unidentified doctor caught virus while working for charity in Sierra Leone 50-year-old was flown into Rome's Pratica di Mare military airport today Taken to Lazzaro Spallanzani infectious diseases hospital for special care Current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed nearly 5,500 people A doctor who became Italy's first Ebola victim after contracting the virus in Sierra Leone arrived back in his home country in a specially sealed military plane this morning. He was flown into the military airport of Pratica di Mare, outside the capital Rome, and taken to a nearby hospital for infectious diseases, where he will receive specialist treatment. The unidentified doctor, who reports say is 50-years-old, was working for the charity Emergency at a clinic for Ebola victims in Sierra Leone when he contracted the disease The current Ebola outbreak i...

A handful of the many screens your website must handle.  Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com [ Editor's note: The following is a guest post from Igor Faletski, CEO of  Mobify , which provides tools for adapting web sites for smartphones and tablets. ] You’ve probably heard people say we’re living in a “post-PC world.” What does that mean for web developers? It means that 30% to 50% of your website’s traffic now comes from mobile devices. It means that soon, desktop and laptop users will be in a minority on the web. How do we deal with this tectonic shift in user behavior? We’ve moved beyond the era of m-dot or t-dot hacks, into one where responsive and adaptive design techniques rule the day — what the W3C calls a One Web approach . The key part of the W3C’s recommendation is that “One Web means making, as far as is reasonable, the same information and services available to users irrespective of the device they are using.” For developers that means that taking a One Web approach...

Photo by:   Ahmed Amir,  Creative Commons Attribution Licence You've got a destination in mind and you're just about ready to book your tickets. Possibly the most stressful part in your dream vacation planning is obtaining a visa. You'll be surprised to know that there are more than 50 countries where you can just land up and get a visa stamped on arrival. Read on... Photo by:   Prachanart Viriyaraks,  Creative Commons Attribution Licence ASIA For Indians, the easiest and most convenient destinations lie in Asia. From the  shopping paradise of  Thailand  to the little-known-wonder  Laos , visa on arrival is also offered in Cambodia , Hong Kong,  Indonesia ,  Jordan ,  Nepal ,  Maldives ,  Macau , Sri Lanka and Timor Leste. AFRICA Africa's natural  history  alone would make a dozen visits here worthwhile! Fall asleep to the sounds of birds and be a part of the spectacular scenery that  Ethiopia...

Google controls 90% of all Web searches in Europe, giving it unequaled power it doesn't enjoy in the United States. On Thursday, members of Europe's parliament will vote on a resolution that will propose ways to shrink Google's influence in Europe. "It's a monopoly. It's killing our technology businesses," said Ramon Tremosa, a member of parliament who's authoring the draft measure. The draft resolution demands an end to "Google's illegal and discriminatory treatment." Related: Google lets you pay to avoid ads The proposal cites a frequent complaint: that Google search results are ranked based on what's best for Google as a business, not the user. It also calls for a drastic move "to restore competition in the online marketplace." Among the ideas: Ripping apart Google's ranking algorithm and rotating results instead to boost competitors. Another idea is to force a breakup of Google's European operations. Google (GOOG...

ISLAMABAD:  A Pakistan court on Tuesday sentenced the owner of the country's biggest media group to 26 years in prison for broadcasting a show it said was blasphemous. The morning show broadcast live on Geo TV in May featured Pakistani starlet Veena Malik dancing with her new husband while a group of Sufi musicians sang a devotional song about the wedding of the Prophet Muhammad's daughter. The verdict against Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman along with the host of the show and two guests was announced by an anti-terror court in the city of Gilgit, which is controlled by Pakistan but part of the Kashmir region which India also claims. But the order is unlikely to be implemented because the Gilgit-Baltistan region is not considered a full-fledged province by Pakistan and verdicts by its courts do not apply to the rest of the country. The four people convicted were also ordered to pay a fine of 1.3 million rupees ($13,000), sell their properties and surrender their passports, according to a ...

 Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to build military ties with Pakistan as India buys more weapons from the U.S., changing an approach toward the nuclear-powered neighbors that has endured since the Cold War. Sergei Shoigu, making the first visit by a Russian defense minister to Pakistan since the Soviet Union’s collapse, last week signed a “milestone” military cooperation agreement. The world community “wants to do business with Pakistan now,” Shoigu said, according to a Pakistan government statement. The move comes as Putin seeks to expand relations with Asia in the face of growing isolation from the U.S. and its allies over his support for separatist rebels in Ukraine. The U.S. overtook Russia as India’s biggest weapons supplier in recent years, prompting leaders in Moscow to reassess their strategy toward South Asia. “We’re seeing a new Russia,” C. Uday Bhaskar, director of the Delhi-based Society for Policy Studies. “With India now widening its search for defense sup...