2014-08-13 Uganda Health

  Fox News   

Canadian Government Donates Experimental Ebola Vaccine to WHO  Businessweek
Canada's government will donate doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organization amid a global race to combat the virus that has killed more than a 1,000 people in West Africa. The experimental vaccine called VSV-EBOV was ...

2014-08-13 Uganda Science

  NBCNews.com   

Saving the Elephants? State Bans on Ivory Trade Gather Steam  NBCNews.com
New York's new ban on the trade in elephant ivory was signed into law Tuesday — World Elephant Day — on the heels of a call by a major conservation group for a total global clampdown. But can such bans help save the world's elephants from extinction?
Battling the Ivory Trade   New York Times (blog)
Despite severe poaching, hopeful signs on World Elephant Day   Christian Science Monitor
12 Shocking Numbers That Reveal Grim, Gruesome Truth Behind Elephant ...   Huffington Post
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  University Herald   

Origami automaton  The Star Online
IN what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created a complex machine that can transform itself from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic into a walking automaton. It starts out laying flat, like a sheet of paper. Then it ...

2014-08-13 Uganda Sports

  Capital FM Kenya   

Bobby slams wasteful Gor in second loss  Capital FM Kenya
GOR-FAN-DEEP NAIROBI, August 11- Gor Mahia's chances of progression into the quarterfinals of the Cecafa Club Championships hang by a thread after they went down 1-0 to Burundi's Atletico Olympic at Nyamirambo Stadium in Rwanda on Monday for ...

2014-08-13 Uganda Entertainment

  Mirror.co.uk   

Robin Williams dead: Watch Fox News anchor Shep Smith pondering whether ...  Mirror.co.uk
This video shows Fox news anchor Shep Smith pondering whether COWARDICE could have been behind Robin Williams' decision to commit suicide. He has since apologised for the comment, which has been heavily criticised. In the footage above he says ...

2014-08-13 Uganda Technology

  Tech News   

Top Stock: Google(NASDAQ GOOG) In For “FASTER” Internet in Asia  Tech News
Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) announced that it was among the six global companies investing in an undersea cable system called FASTER to boost the internet speed in Asia. The Faster System requires an investment of $300 million. The FASTER system's ...

2014-08-13 Uganda Business

  Business Recorder   

Ugandan shilling posts gains on inflows from charities  Business Recorder
image KAMPALA: The Ugandan shilling gained on Tuesday, helped by inflows from non-governmental organisations and lower demand for dollars among importers. At 0923 GMT, commercial banks quoted the currency at 2,610/2,620, slightly up from ...

2014-08-13 Uganda World

  The Straits Times   

A wild card in the Ukrainian conflict  The Straits Times
A Ukrainian soldier preparing to refuel his armoured personnel carrier near the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Monday. Tougher sanctions won't change Russia's approach to Ukraine because Mr Putin is determined that it will eventually become the ...

2014-08-13 Uganda Africa

WHO backs use of experimental Ebola drugs in West Africa outbreak  Reuters Africa
GENEVA Aug 12 (Reuters) - A World Health Organisation panel of medical ethics experts ruled on Tuesday that it is ethical to offer unproven drugs or vaccines as potential treatments or preventions in West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak. (Reporting by Kate ...

2014-08-13 Uganda Uganda

  Voice of America   

Mixed Messages from Uganda on Anti-LGBT Bill  Human Rights Campaign (blog)
There were very mixed messages coming out of Uganda yesterday. Earlier this month, Uganda's Constitutional Court struck down the anti-LGBT bill enacted this February. As the Ugandan parliament prepared to reintroduce the law, President Museveni said ...