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Thomas Eric Duncan became the first Ebola patient to die in America and now a nurse who cared for him has also become infected with Ebola. (Photo by Zennie Abraham)

The Vatican’s new stance toward gays, divorcees

The Vatican took the first steps toward reforming its approach to long-taboo topics within the Catholic Church: homosexuality, divorce, and premarital sex.

The Atlantic

Vatican document on gays draws cautious, mixed response

MSNBC

NC magistrate won’t marry two men despite ban lift

ABC News

Supreme Court stops parts of Texas abortion law

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked key parts of a 2013 Texas law that closed all but eight facilities providing abortions in America’s second most-populous state.

Huffington Post

2nd Texas health-care worker tests positive for Ebola

A second hospital worker who helped care for Ebola patient Thomas Duncan has tested positive for the disease, prompting local officials to warn that more cases are “a real possibility.”

USA TODAY

Blog:

Ebola lessons we need to learn from Dallas

(TIME)

IDEAS

Russian human rights group faces threat of closure

Russia’s justice ministry has asked the supreme court to close Memorial, the country’s best-known human rights organization which groups together more than 50 agencies nationwide.

Guardian

Egypt should release arrested university students

Egyptian authorities should release more than 110 university students arrested since October 11, 2014. The arrests appear to be directed at the students’ peaceful exercise of the right to free assembly.

Human Rights Watch

US student arrested in Egypt says he fainted from fear

CNN

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Hillary Clinton speaks about philanthropy, net neutrality in salesforce keynote

Clinton delivered the keynote address at the annual event where she praised Salesforce’s philanthropic efforts, emphasized the importance of net neutrality and sidestepped questions about future presidential plans.

Mashable

Giving discarded laptops new lives and new homes

Globetops is an organization that refurbishes donated laptops and sends them to worthwhile applicants throughout the world.

Daily Good

HUMAN RIGHTS

Foreign robber loses ‘family life’ human rights claim

A foreign criminal who tied up and robbed two women in their flat can be deported even though he has children who were born in this country, one of the most senior judges in England and Wales has ruled.

Telegraph.co.uk

Pastor forced vasectomies, abortions because kids take money from church

Former members of Grace Cathedral have accused televangelist Ernest Angley of forcing them to have abortions, and vasectomies. They said that he sexually abused boys in the church, which he has denied.

AlterNet

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Australia asylum cases challenged in court

Australia faced two court challenges to its controversial asylum-seeker policies. The High Court began questioning a law that detained 157 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seekers on the seas after sailing for India.

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong police use sledgehammers, chainsaws to clear protest barriers, open road

Hundreds of Hong Kong police used sledgehammers and chainsaws to tear down barricades erected by pro-democracy protesters near government offices and the financial center, reopening a major road for the first time in two weeks.

Reuters

Hong Kong tycoon calls for protests to end after tension over police beating

Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Switzerland bucks EU youth unemployment trend

Country’s youth apprenticeship program is credited with one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe.

Al Jazeera

Traffic jams a severe drain on economies

A fresh study by a leading economic think tank has warned of the growing impact of traffic congestion on the economies of major industrialized nations. The institute’s forecast is nothing less than alarming.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Are we now living in the ‘age of humans’?

People are changing Earth so much through warming and polluting it, that many scientists are turning to a new way to describe the time we live in. They’re now calling it the Anthropocene, the “age of humans”.

Irish Examiner

Volcanoes erupted ‘recently’ on the moon

Recent discoveries by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show some spots that may have experienced volcanic eruptions much later on the moon — some as recent as 33 million years ago.

Discovery News

Blog:

Lunar eclipse seen from another planet

Slate

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Matt Schiavenza):

Why Nigeria was able to beat Ebola, but not Boko Haram

The Atlantic

Editorial:

Fighting failure, fear and Ebola

The Virginian Pilot

Editorial:

Wanted: New ways to lift a sluggish global economy

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Ohio boasts 65 ‘bicentennial’ farms that have been in their families for 200 years

Family farms are much more than just a slice of the past. They may also be one of the keys to a brighter, greener future — and nothing proves their timelessness quite like Central Ohio’s collection of bicentennial farms.

Huffington Post

The emotional moment this man saw for the first time in 33 years thanks to a ‘bionic eye’

Larry Hester has spent almost half his life blind. A degenerative condition called retinitis pigmentosa destroyed his photoreceptor cells. But, thanks to new “bionic eye” technology, Hester is no longer entirely in the dark.

Huffington Post

NONPROFITS & NGOS

Nonprofit celebrates 60 years teaching Earth stewardship

For 60 years, the Thorne Nature Experience has been dedicated to connecting Boulder County kids with nature, with hopes those children will become stewards of the Earth.

Boulder News

NGOs extend all possible help to victims of Cyclone Hudhud

Several organisations, including NGOs and voluntary organisations, are lending their support and help to Hudhud cyclone affected families in Visakhapatnam and neighboring districts.

The Hindu

ENVIRONMENT

Activists use GPS to track illegal loggers in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

Hi-tech undercover operation used GPS tracking on timber trucks for the first time, as well as satellite and aerial images to reveal extent of illegal logging in Brazilian Amazon

Guardian

3 Cambodian log traders charged over journalist murder

The Malaysian Insider

Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic warn citizens to prepare for Hurricane Gonzalo

The Dominican Emergency Operations Center reported that Hurricane Gonzalo will bring rain, isolated thunderstorms and gusty winds to some of the country’s eastern and northeastern provinces.

FOX News

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The early morning sun lights the north face of Mt. Shuksan in the Cascade mountain range in north Washington near the Canadian border. The full moon shines in the distance. (Photo by Drew Brayshaw)

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