This alert comes against a backdrop of recent devastating floods, including the May Mokwa disaster in Niger State, in which over 500 people died, numerous homes and farms were destroyed, and thousands ...

Chinese authorities are using nets, spraying insecticide and even deploying drones to fight the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, which has infected thousands of people.

Mr Osterberg has appeared in such films as Tank Girl (as a weird kangaroo-human hybrid), Jim Jarmusch's Coffee And Cigarettes, John Waters' comedy Cry-Baby (which also starred Johnny Depp), The Crow: ...