A prominent official from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s governing party was reportedly beaten to death on Sunday after speaking on radio about the Ebola outbreak, according to a party spokesperson. Marie-Celestin Karondwa, interim head of the federal executive committee of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) in Butembo, an area affected by the outbreak, was assaulted after joining a radio broadcast in which he encouraged residents to follow disease-prevention guidance,

After a long shift working in school maintenance, 28-year-old Paul likes to relax with a romance novel, especially one that mixes love with fantasy or horror. He gets through five or six books each month. One recent favourite was Love Bytes, about an eight-foot werewolf woman who leads a wildly successful AI company and falls for an attractive ballroom dance teacher. Paul first discovered romance through what he describes as its more conventional branch, including the Regency world of