Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you will have seen the alarming headlines about Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) , the deadly infection caused by the MERS-CoV coronavirus that’s raging through the region . The number of cases reported in April blew past the last two years' total number of incidents - with a shocking death rate tracking at 36%! What the heck is happening here? The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said its global count of MERS cases in April hit 217, compared with 207 reported ...

He may have won the title of Hollywood’s perpetual bachelor but Clooney has clearly been biding his time for the right woman - and by jove is it Amal Alamuddin , Beirut-born and London-raised barrister and international human rights bad-ass! Oxford educated, internationally renowned for her skills as a lawyer and representing some of the biggest names in politics today, Amal is a true inspiration but she remains something of an enigma - the Lebanese-Brit-extraordinaire - in the global media as it grapples with the idea of Clooney being made ...

There’s a conga-line of celebrities parading through Syrian refugee camps - an incongruous mash-up of glamour with grit that has us debating the end results. Do celebrities trivialize good causes? Worse yet - do they jeopardize them? Or should we lighten up and see this as a brilliant way to keep critical causes in the public awareness ? The Syrian civil war may be the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time, with an estimated 9 million Syrians displaced from their homes since 2011. It’s logical that refugee settlements in Turkey ...

May 2 2014