The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become the deadliest in the nation’s history, with government figures reporting at least 2,325 deaths, exceeding the number recorded during the 2018-20 outbreak. The DRC’s national public health institute said the number of confirmed infections had climbed to 4,945, including 101 cases identified within the previous 24 hours. The World Health Organization has warned that the epidemic could overtake west Africa’s 2014-16 Ebola crisis

Visionary architects have always used colour to enrich the built environment. From an exuberant historic temple to a lively public library, these eight buildings place colour at the heart of their design. Human beings have used colour to inspire pleasure for hundreds of thousands of years. Neanderthals applied natural earth pigments to cave walls, beginning a tradition later continued in the painted temples of ancient Egypt and Greece and the richly patterned marble architecture of Rome. Across