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So It Turns Out Hackers Can Steal Yr Data Using An App That's Pre-Installed On All iPhones - Pedestrian TV

So It Turns Out Hackers Can Steal Yr Data Using An App That's Pre-Installed On All iPhones Pedestrian TV
Warning Issued For Apple's 1.4 Billion iPad And iPhone Users Forbes
Your iPhone contacts list could be a vulnerable target MarketWatch
Apple's iOS Contacts app claimed to be vulnerable to SQLite hack AppleInsider
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There’s ‘no way’ Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, a former NYC jail inmate says - Fox News

There’s ‘no way’ Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, a former NYC jail inmate says Fox News
Jeffrey Epstein dies a day after release of court documents CBS News
Jeffrey Epstein, accused sex trafficker, dies by suicide: Officials ABC News
Jeffrey Epstein Dead in Suicide at Jail, Spurring Inquiries The New York Times
Jeffrey Epstein's suicide makes no sense | TheHill The Hill
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Myanmar troops help flood rescue after landslide kills 51

Myanmar troops deployed to flood-hit parts of the country on Sunday to help with relief efforts after rising waters left thousands stranded and the death toll from a landslide jumped to 51. Hundreds of emergency response workers were still pulling victims out of the muddy wreckage in Paung township on Sunday.

'Million Dollar Listing' Star Madison Hildebrand Latest Target in Dubai Scam - TMZ

'Million Dollar Listing' Star Madison Hildebrand Latest Target in Dubai Scam TMZ

'Million Dollar Listing L.A.' star Madison Hildebrand came THIS close to putting pen to paper for a $300k deal to speak at a conference in Dubai ... but like with ...

When light is lethal: Moroccans struggle with skin disorder

Determined for her 7-year-old son to attend school despite a life-threatening sensitivity to sunlight, Nadia El Rami stuck a deal with the school's director: Mustapha would be allowed in the classroom, but only if he studies inside a cardboard box. Mustapha Redouane happily accepted the arrangement. Now 8, Mustapha has already had 11 operations to remove cancerous growths on his skin.

Moscow Antigovernment Protest Draws Tens of Thousands - The Wall Street Journal

Moscow Antigovernment Protest Draws Tens of Thousands The Wall Street Journal
50,000 demonstrate in Moscow in third weekend of protests for fair elections Los Angeles Times
Moscow protests: Opposition rally 'largest since 2011' BBC News
Huge Pro-Opposition Crowd Turns Out in Moscow March The New York Times
Thousands protest for fair elections in Moscow, largest in 8 years Fox News
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Volatility in China's yuan due to escalating U.S. trade friction: PBOC official - Reuters

Five Rounds - Is Shevchenko's dominance good or bad for the UFC? - ESPN

Five Rounds - Is Shevchenko's dominance good or bad for the UFC? ESPN
UFC Uruguay: Valentina Shevchenko Octagon Interview UFC - Ultimate Fighting Championship
UFC Uruguay results: Valentina Shevchenko retains title with lopsided decision against Liz Carmouche MMA Fighting
Shevchenko routs Carmouche to retain UFC title ESPN
UFC Uruguay: Vicente Luque Octagon Interview UFC - Ultimate Fighting Championship
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Cowboys vs. 49ers Preseason Week 1 Highlights | NFL 2019 - NFL

Cowboys vs. 49ers Preseason Week 1 Highlights | NFL 2019 NFL
Five takeaways from Cowboys preseason opener: Offense doesn't show much, defense forces turnovers, more unease about kicker Dallas News
Quick Thoughts from 49ers' 17-9 Win over Cowboys in Preseason Opener 49ers Webzone
WATCH: Former A&M S Wilson has INT in first NFL game 247Sports
#SFvsDAL: WR Jon’Vea Johnson Has A Chance To Separate Himself Inside The Star
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Kenta Maeda throws seven scoreless innings, Dodgers win - True Blue LA

Saudi-led coalition moves against separatists who seized Aden in blow to alliance - Reuters

Saudi-led coalition moves against separatists who seized Aden in blow to alliance Reuters
Separatists seize Aden presidential palace, gov't military camps Al Jazeera English
Yemeni Separatists Oust Government in Key City, Complicating Peace Efforts The New York Times
Yemen Separatist Soldiers Capture Presidential Palace in Aden The Wall Street Journal
Could the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen soon fall apart? Al Jazeera English
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Archaeological dig in Jerusalem unearths evidence of biblical Babylonian conquest

One month after offering up archaeological evidence to back up a contested claim about the First Crusade, researchers say they've found traces of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in a deeper layer of their excavation on Mount Zion. The newly reported find demonstrates how the site, just outside the walls of the Old City's Tower of David citadel, serves as a "time machine" documenting the twists and turns of Jerusalem's history. The Babylonian conquest, which dates to the year 587 or 586 BCE, is one of the major moments of Jewish history. As detailed in the biblical Book of Kings,… Read More

Thousands Take to the Streets to Protest TMT - Maui Now

Thousands Take to the Streets to Protest TMT Maui Now
VIDEO: TMT Opponents Refute Observatories After Announcement Big Island Video News
Telescope Project Blocked in Hawaii Seeks Permit to Build in Spain Voice of America
TMT supporters take to the streets | News, Sports, Jobs Maui News
VIDEO: Astronomers Excited To Restart “Limited” Operations On Mauna Kea Big Island Video News
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‘Perhaps the most important isotope’: how carbon-14 revolutionised science

As Marra says: “Human waste from sewer lines sent science onward.” Libby then provided final proof of his dating technology by measuring the radioactivity – and, by inference, the age – of a series of ...

Apple is giving out a special iPhone that can lead to a $1 million reward - PhoneArena

Apple is giving out a special iPhone that can lead to a $1 million reward PhoneArena
iPhone XR vs. iPhone 8 Plus: What iPhone should you buy? CNET
Apple challenges to hack iPhone security, offers $1mn Dunya News
Replacing iPhone battery from third-party vendors? Think again International Business Times, India
iPhone 11, 11R and 11 Max: The specs, features and prices we expect from Apple in September CNET
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Meet Jeffrey Epstein's gang of accused slave 'recruiters' - New York Post

Mexican banks report failures in processing card payments - Reuters

Mexican banks report failures in processing card payments Reuters

Several of Mexico's largest banks reported on Saturday that they were experiencing problems processing debit and credit card payments while some shops in ...

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Amid protest, Hawaii astronomers lose observation time

This is some of the research astronomers say they have missed out on at 11 observatories on Hawaii's tallest mountain as a protest blocks the road to the summit, one of the world's premier sites for studying the skies. Astronomers said Friday they will attempt to resume observations, but they have already lost four weeks of viewing — and in some cases won't be able to make up the missed research. Protesters, who are trying to stop the construction of yet another telescope at the site, say they should not be blamed for the shutdown.

Soto sets his career high of 23 home runs at a historic rate - NBCSports.com

Soto sets his career high of 23 home runs at a historic rate NBCSports.com
How Noah Syndergaard's trust in Wilson Ramos paid off New York Post
Mets stay smoking hot with 8th straight win MLB.com
Conforto's walk-off single caps Mets' 4-run rally in 9th Newsday
Mets find late magic again as amazing run continues New York Post
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Facebook to open source advanced photo and video-matching technology

Facebook is preparing to release new technology which will help web platforms ... As analysed by Sky News when the web giant made its initial announcement, sending Facebook staff our private ...

The five: chimeras created by science

A 4-week-old pig embryo carrying human stem cells, an experiment led by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, who recently created the first human-monkey chimera. Photograph: AP Last week, researchers led by ...

Trump says China 'wants to make a deal so badly' and may want a Democrat to beat him | TheHill - The Hill

Trump says China 'wants to make a deal so badly' and may want a Democrat to beat him | TheHill The Hill
Senior Voters, Some Wavering on Trump, Figure to Shape 2020 Election The Wall Street Journal
Trump lashes out at NYT reporter over Dayton, El Paso coverage | TheHill The Hill
Is This the Movie That Made Trump Claim “Liberal Hollywood Is Racist”? Vanity Fair
President Donald Trump Tweetstorm – The Saturday Edition Deadline
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Hollywood studio cancels 'The Hunt' movie release after criticism - Reuters

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways faces mainland China's ire - Quartz

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways faces mainland China's ire Quartz
Hong Kong protests: Tear gas fired at demonstrators Al Jazeera English
Hong Kong Protesters Defy Beijing Warnings, as Police Fire Tear Gas The New York Times
Why Australians are worried about Chinese influence — in universities and beyond The Washington Post
Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters NPR
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Reuters Science News Summary

Chinese space startup revs up for reusable rocket race Chinese startup LinkSpace on Saturday completed its third test of a reusable rocket in five months, stepping up the pace in China's race to ...

Funerals begin for victims of Dayton, Ohio, mass shooting - CNN

Funerals begin for victims of Dayton, Ohio, mass shooting CNN

The victims of the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, started being laid to rest on Saturday, nearly a week after they were killed while enjoying a night out.

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The Two Big Hobbs and Shaw Cameos Are Officially Revealed /Film - /FILM

The Two Big Hobbs and Shaw Cameos Are Officially Revealed /Film /FILM
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw - Dwayne & Roman Reigns as Usos The Rock
Box Office: 'Scary Stories' Beats 'Hobbs & Shaw,' 'Dora' on Friday Hollywood Reporter
It's Not IF the Fast & Furious Will Go to Space, But When | CBR CBR - Comic Book Resources
Friday Box Office: 'Hobbs & Shaw' Drops 70% And Loses First Place To 'Scary Stories' Forbes
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Researchers, social activists, students, lecturers and advocates participate in science march organised in Jagatsinghpur

The speakers said Article 51 A of the Constitution makes it a duty for every citizen to promote scientific temper and the country’s development is not possible without promotion of science and ...

Devastating photos show the damage of Typhoon Lekima, which killed at least 18 people and forced 1 million to evacuate in China

A million people were evacuated from their homes and thousands of flights were cancelled across major airports in China.

Going home to report on a mass shooting was the hardest assignment I've ever had - CNN

Going home to report on a mass shooting was the hardest assignment I've ever had CNN
Week After El Paso Shooting, Victims and Advocates March for Gun-Law Changes The Wall Street Journal
El Paso shooting: LULAC holds march today as new details emerge about suspect CBS News
El Paso crowd decries racism week after mass shooting ABC News
El Paso is my hometown. I returned to find unity and resilience in a mass shooter’s wake The Boston Globe
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Germany to suspend Amazon aid to Brazil

Germany said Saturday it would suspend Brazilian aid aimed at helping protect the Amazon forest in light of data that showed deforestation had surged since President Jair Bolsonaro took office. "Brazilian government policies in the Amazon raise doubts about continued, sustained declines in the rate of deforestation," Environment Minister Svenja Schulze told the television news show Tagesspiegel. It said a first step would be to block payment of 35 million euros ($40 million) for forest conservation and biodiversity programmes until the rate of decline attained encouraging levels once again.

The 9 House Republicans who support background checks | TheHill - The Hill

The 9 House Republicans who support background checks | TheHill The Hill
Democratic candidates blame Trump, Republicans for gun violence The Washington Post
Bloomberg joins de Blasio in blasting Trump over gun control New York Post
Trump’s Pile of Rubble The New York Times
Guns, Trump and a nation at a crossroads | TheHill The Hill
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How to Invest in Renewable Energy Stocks - The Motley Fool

How to Invest in Renewable Energy Stocks The Motley Fool
The Renewable Energy Quote That Investors Can't Afford to Miss The Motley Fool
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Greta Thunberg, on German coal mine visit, questions 2038 fuel exit date

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, on a visit to a German anti-coal protest camp, questioned whether the country should continue to use the fuel to generate power for another 20 years as the government plans. Thunberg, the most visible spokeswoman of the Fridays for Future movement of students striking to demand climate action, was talking to reporters at the western German Hambach forest near Cologne. The area has become a symbol of protest against the coal industry, prompting utility RWE to give assurances it would not touch the forest until late 2020, although it had hoped to clear it for brown coal mining and burning activities.

Greta Thunberg, on German coal mine visit, questions 2038 fuel exit date

A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women - The New York Times

A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women The New York Times
First funeral held for victim in El Paso mass shooting CBS Evening News
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Damage to Germany's storied forests stokes climate debate

Germany's forests — long a source of pride and national identity — are feeling the heat. Officials say droughts, wildfires and hungry beetles destroyed 110,000 hectares (270,000 acres) of forest in Germany in 2018 and the damage this year could be even worse. The sight of bare trees has stoked debate about the impact of climate change and what measures this heavily industrialized nation should be taking to adapt to and prevent global warming.

DNA evidence: This New England 'vampire' was named John Barber in life

For decades, archaeologists, historians and DNA experts, have investigated a Connecticut vampire. Now they have new information, a name: John Barber.

The Note 10 runs Android even if Samsung doesn't want to admit it - Android Central

The Note 10 runs Android even if Samsung doesn't want to admit it Android Central
Why You Should Skip the Galaxy Note 10 for Galaxy S11 Tom's Guide
Microsoft has finally found its smartphone: Why the Samsung Galaxy partnership is so promising GeekWire
Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G is the latest proof that 5G isn't for you -- yet CNET
You already have my money, please stay out of my notifications Android Central
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National Science Week gets underway on the Gold Coast

Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews says science ... She’ll be bringing you the latest in Gold Coast news, weather, traffic and more every day. The news doesn’t sleep, and ...

Miley Cyrus dances around in a thong bikini on Italian getaway - Fox News

Miley Cyrus dances around in a thong bikini on Italian getaway Fox News
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Have Reportedly Separated Vogue
Miley Cyrus and Kaitlynn Carter Seen KISSING Amid Singer's Split From Liam Hemsworth Entertainment Tonight
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Split After Less Than a Year of Marriage: 'This Is What's Best' Yahoo Lifestyle
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Split After Less Than 8 Months Of Marriage Access
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The August full moon is coming soon, and it's ruining the Perseid meteor shower - NJ.com

The August full moon is coming soon, and it's ruining the Perseid meteor shower NJ.com

The full moon of August 2019 will soon be shining in the night sky (8/15/2019), and its most common nickname is the sturgeon moon. It's also known as the ...

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Greenland’s Rapid Melting Is a Hugely Underplayed Story

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The announcement that 11 billion tons dropped off the Greenland Ice Sheet in one day turned out to be a made-for-television example of the effects of climate change. Dramatic videos of water pouring off the glaciers went viral. But apart from the occasional spectacular image, it’s hard to focus the attention of the news media on the Greenland Ice Sheet. And that’s too bad.Because it’s worse than you thought.Consider: According to NASA’s National Snow & Ice Data Center, between June 11 and June 20 of this year, the Greenland Ice Sheet (or GIS) lost an estimated 80 billion tons of ice. That’s an average of 8 billion tons every 24 hours for 10 days, a record warming event. But there was hardly a whisper of news coverage, perhaps because there weren’t any exciting videos.Maybe the old cliché is true after all: A picture is worth a thousand words. After all, the GIS has been melting for decades. The tough part is getting people to pay attention. In northeast Greenland the sheet is vanishing even faster than climate models predict. Recent research has shown that the most rapid melt is in southwest Greenland, where the glaciers by and large don’t terminate in the sea. This result, which took many climate scientists by surprise, tends to confirm rising temperatures rather than changing ocean currents as the cause.Yes, it’s possible that Greenland’s ice sheet actually grew slightly in 2017. It’s also possible that snowfall in 2017 and 2018 roughly balanced the mass of ice loss. But before climate-change skeptics bombard me (@StepCarter) with snide told-ya-so’s, bear in mind these are only possibilities. Unfortunately, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellite, our most sensitive measuring tool, stopped giving reliable data in 2016 and went dead during 2017. (Happily, a follow-on mission lifted into orbit in May of 2018). Besides, recent ice growth, if any, seems to be an anomaly in a long-term melting trend. As the same Danish researchers who made the point about snowfall noted, “the neutral mass change in the last two years does not — and cannot — begin to compensate for these losses.”Even prominent climate skeptics have begun to concede that the disappearance of the GIS is related to the globe’s changing climate. Alas, a sobering paper from the distinguished Yale economist William Nordhaus argues that we’re already too late. Absent forms of extreme restraint that will are politically impossible, writes Nordhaus, Greenland’s ice sheet is going to melt over the next few centuries, and rebuilding it will be the work of many generations.What would be the result? A 2017 study found that the Greenland ice sheet, which as recently as 1993 contributed only 5% of the rise in sea levels, is now responsible for 25%. Melting of the GIS over the past 40 years has raised sea levels only about half an inch. According to recent modeling, however, the disintegration of Greenland’s ice is likely to raise sea levels along the East Coast of the U.S. by a minimum of 0.2 meters (about 8 inches) over the next century.(1) Unless you spend a lot of time in littoral areas, this may not sound like much, but bear in mind that those extra inches would be the starting level for future storm surges. (Yes, melting on the GIS may cause similar effects in coastal Europe.)Don’t get me wrong: Climate change poses bigger threats than the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, dramatic as that event might prove. But it’s the GIS that’s in the news right now, and it’s the melting of the GIS that might well prove impossible to stop.If all of this is inevitable, what to do? The buzz words are adaptation and mitigation.Adaptation we might loosely call learning to live with what comes next. Successful adaptation could reduce the costs of coastal damage over the next century by a factor of seven. For example, people who live along the seacoast might pull up stakes. Although some activists write as though anything short of official mandate represents a policy failure, a degree of adaptation may already be occurring. According to “Climate Gentrification” theory, as people learn about the effects of climate change, those who can afford to move, will. In particular, they will begin to abandon the coast and move further inland. This may already be happening: A study of the Miami real estate market found that since 2000, properties at higher elevations have appreciated in value faster than similar properties at lower elevations. (The research is often misdescribed in the press as showing that coastal properties have lost value.)Some forms of adaptation have positive results. For example — don’t laugh! — a recent article in Nature Sustainability notes that as Greenland’s glaciers retreat, the island could become an exporter of sand and gravel. (Apparently there’s a worldwide shortage.) In the U.S., many companies are likely to profit from the need to strengthen infrastructure.Mitigation involves the effort to limit the effect of climate change, usually through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This is where draconian and politically unachievable regulatory proposals usually come in. The optimist in me is more interested in technological solutions. Climate change activists tend to deride geoengineering as “eclectic, messianic and mostly untested.” Given the urgency of the crisis, however, we should be testing as much as we can. The most sought-after prize is the ability to inexpensively remove greenhouse gasses from the air. Carbon capture technology, aimed at using those gasses to create synthetic fuels, has drawn the attention of serious investors, among them Bill Gates. Oil and gas companies, too, are understandably interested.I hope the technology proves feasible. As I’ve noted before in this space, whenever engineering solutions are proposed as tools to mitigate the effects of climate change, critics rush to insist that technological fixes won’t work. Carbon capture is no different. And perhaps the prospect does indeed carry with it a whiff of the magic bullet. But we’ve managed to fire magic bullets from time to time. If we believe the threat of climate change is real — and what's happening in Greenland is pretty good evidence — there's certainly no justification for not trying.(1) Disintegration of Antarctic ice is expected to have little effect on sea levels along the East Coast – although of course its effects will be seen elsewhere.To contact the author of this story: Stephen L. Carter at scarter01@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Sarah Green Carmichael at sgreencarmic@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is a professor of law at Yale University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. His novels include “The Emperor of Ocean Park,” and his latest nonfiction book is “Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster.” For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

Hours after Trump boast, North Korea provokes region - AOL

New UN Report Puts A Dagger Through Climate Deniers’ Favorite Argument

No, carbon dioxide emissions are not “good” for global food production.

22 communities at high risk from mosquito-borne virus; Mass. to spray insecticide - Boston.com

22 communities at high risk from mosquito-borne virus; Mass. to spray insecticide Boston.com
First human case of EEE in Massachusetts since 2013 confirmed Boston Herald
Massachusetts confirms first human case of EEE since 2013 WWLP-22News
Massachusetts has first human EEE case in 6 years; 9 communities at critical risk WCVB Boston
Massachusetts man tests positive for EEE virus, first human case since 2013 Turn to 10
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Twitter's Ban of McConnell Shows Tech's Censorship Power - RealClearPolitics

Twitter's Ban of McConnell Shows Tech's Censorship Power RealClearPolitics
Lawmakers have signaled interest in discussing gun control measures. Here's what we know USA TODAY
McConnell gets Twitter account back after backlash AOL
Harmeet Dhillon: McConnell campaign's Twitter ban new shot in Big Tech war on conservatives – Wake up, America Fox News
Mitch McConnell, the ‘do nothing’ Senate leader The Washington Post
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The story of the first ever space wedding, when a woman on Earth married a cardboard cutout of her astronaut boyfriend while he watched on from the International Space Station

Yuri Malenchenko was on the ISS in his spacesuit with another astronaut playing the wedding march on a keyboard as he wed his wife, who was on earth.

Russia says five died in missile test explosion

Russia's nuclear agency on Saturday said an explosion at an Arctic missile testing site had killed five of its staff after the military had put the toll at two. In a statement, Rosatom said the accident killed five of its staff and injured three, who suffered burns and other injuries. The statement came after authorities in a nearby city said the accident had caused a spike in radiation levels but the military had denied this.

At least 13 dead, 16 missing as Typhoon Lekima slams east China

At least 13 people were killed and 16 others missing in a landslide after Typhoon Lekima lashed eastern China, national television reported Saturday. "Torrential rains caused a landslide on a mountain that blocked a river below," it said. More than a million people were evacuated from their homes ahead of the storm, which slammed into eastern China early Saturday, bringing torrential rain and heavy winds that knocked out power and downed thousands of trees, state media reported.

Chinese space startup revs up for reusable rocket race

Chinese startup LinkSpace on Saturday completed its third test of a reusable rocket in five months, stepping up the pace in China's race to develop a technology key to cheap space launches in an expected global boom in satellite deployment. LinkSpace's RLV-T5 rocket blasted off in a desert in western Qinghai province at 0230 GMT. It flew as high as 300 meters (984 feet) before returning to the launchpad on its own after 50 seconds, CEO Hu Zhenyu, 26, told Reuters.

Ebola's return: The virus has killed nearly 2,000 – why is it back?

Why is Ebola back? The virus has killed nearly 2,000 people in the last year Why is Ebola back? The virus has killed nearly 2,000 in a year Despite a new vaccine meant to wipe out Ebola, the deadly disease is on the rise again. Adrian Blomfield reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo, currently in the grip of the second largest outbreak on record. Pictures by Simon Townsley This article has an estimated read time of nine minutes Grinning broadly between dimpled cheeks, Bahati Kasereka clearly thought it was all a jolly wheeze. To his six-year-old eyes, the doctor hovering over him in a decontamination suit must have looked like an astronaut. The isolation unit in which he had just been placed perhaps resembled one of the tents he had heard about from his soldier father. Revelling in all the attention, Bahati whispered conspiratorially to a figurine of Sheriff Woody from Toy Story on the bed beside him. From time to time he raised his thumbs towards the strangers peering at him through the unit’s thick plastic walls, as if to say he hadn’t had this much fun for ages. Bahati may have just days to live. A few hours earlier, he had tested positive for Ebola at a nearby clinic. Being diagnosed with the world’s most terrifying disease clearly meant little to him. Even the journey to the Ebola treatment centre (ETC) in the Congolese town of Beni, escorted by more astronaut-like figures, was just another part of the adventure. After all, beyond running a temperature and suffering a slight cough, he did not seem particularly ill. But that’s the thing with Ebola, says Blandine Ndeturuye, a Unicef health officer at the centre. ‘Today a patient can be doing well and tomorrow they die.’ Beni’s ETC, like the others dotted across the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a miserable place, haunted by suffering and death. Beni, an attractive town of 300,000-odd people set in verdant hills to the west of the Rwenzori Mountains, has been hit hard by Ebola. A woman in an isolation cube receives treatment at Butembo Nearly 350 people have died here – a fifth of all fatalities – since the disease erupted in Congo’s north-east a year ago. With no sign of the virus abating, the ETC remains almost full. The centre, which has no permanent buildings, feels more like a Gulag than a hospital. Patients are housed in ‘Biosecure Emergency Care Units’, or CUBEs, plastic tent-like structures that seal them off from the outside world. Orange fencing mesh divides the ETC into hazardous ‘red zones’, which only those wearing full protective equipment can enter, and safer ‘green zones’. They may not look it, but the CUBEs are a humanitarian development: unlike in previous outbreaks, patients can now receive visitors who sit outside the structures safe in the knowledge they cannot be infected. Even so, for those old enough to be aware of the seriousness of their condition, being placed inside one is a terrifying experience. For many, they are little more than sanitised death chambers, the plastic walls the last thing they will ever see. Since the present outbreak began, only a third of those infected with Ebola have survived. But, as Bahati will discover in the coming weeks, there is some respite, too. For every moment patients hunch up in agony, there are brief periods of symptom-free remission. You can see it in some of the CUBEs in Beni’s ETC. Doctors at work inside a CUBE at the Beni treatment centre A worker at the Butembo Ebola treatment centre A middle-aged man weakly paces the floor. Another sits slumped in a plastic chair by his bed. But, two CUBEs down from Bahati, the other side of Ebola is all too visible as suited doctors try to restrain a woman who is screaming and writhing in pain. An hour later the sedatives take their effect and she falls into a tormented sleep, breathing raggedly, her heaving body now clad in an adult-incontinence nappy. Next door, another man holds a crimsoned muslin cloth to his face, trying to staunch the blood seeping from his nose and mouth. As he hovers between life and death over the coming weeks, Bahati will have to suffer through much of this. At first there will be fever, headaches and muscular pain, then vomiting and diarrhoea, and, unless he can make a recovery, quite possibly internal and external bleeding. Soon, doctors will have to insert a cannula so he can be fed and medicated by a drip. As dehydration, which often kills Ebola victims, takes hold, finding a vein will become progressively harder. Next door to Bahati are two children farther along in their fight against the disease. As Bahati plays, doctors desperately try to find a vein in the hand of a one-year-old boy, Felix, whose lower arm is already a blood-mangled mess from failed previous attempts. On the bed across from Felix, an eight-day-old baby girl, Felicité, lies asleep with a cannula in the side of her head. Bahati does not realise it yet, but he will also have to fight the disease without the comfort of loved ones. He does not know that his father died of Ebola in the same centre the week before he arrived. His mother, after dropping him off at the clinic, scarpered, perhaps fearing she too was infected. She has switched off her mobile phone and health workers have been unable to trace her. Bahati seems oblivious to the fight he has ahead of him An Ebola survivor cares for eight-day-old baby Felicite Simple medical procedures become difficult with victims Yet if fate seems to have dealt this irrepressibly cheerful little boy the cruellest of hands, there are things that could work in his favour. Young children are the most likely to die of Ebola. Just a quarter of those under five have survived the disease in the present outbreak, according to Unicef. Given that he is six, Bahati’s chances are slightly higher. More than that, the rates of survival increase significantly for patients treated in the ETCs. Doctors are hesitant to give a figure but in recent months as many as two thirds of patients treated in Beni’s ETC have beaten off the disease. For those who remain at home undiagnosed, the mortality rate is about 90 per cent, health workers say. There is little mystery about why this is. Patients brought into centres are given much better treatment than if they had stayed at home. Each individual symptom can be addressed, giving victims a better chance of pulling through. Experimental medicines may be saving lives. Most importantly, the earlier the disease is caught, the higher the chances of survival are, which bodes well for Bahati. Even Felicité, whose mother died of Ebola four days after giving birth to her, has a chance. From the moment her mother was brought into the centre, Felicité was under constant monitoring in the nursery next door. There is also potentially crucial psychological help on hand. In every CUBE, survivors of Ebola, who do not have to wear intimidating decontamination suits because they are now immune, offer a simple encouraging message: ‘I got through this and you can too.’ Such survivors, known as ‘lullaby singers’, can make the difference between life and death: without them, Unicef officials say, many victims might simply have given up. Considering the progress being made, both in the treatment centres and in one of the most comprehensive Ebola-vaccination programmes ever mounted, the disease should be on the retreat. More than 170,000 people have received an experimental vaccine, which, although not yet commercially licensed, was first used in Congo last year. It is estimated to be 97.5 per cent effective. Four year old Felix, whose family caught Ebola after handling the corpse of a relative Yet the epidemic is raging as ferociously as ever. Indeed, in April, the number of new cases began to surge rather than decrease. History suggests this should not be the case. No country in the world has suffered as many outbreaks as Congo, home to the Ebola River, after which the disease is named. Scientists debate the reason for this but it is generally agreed that Ebola is transmitted to humans by infected wild animals, particularly the fruit bat. The virus is essentially endemic in the wildlife population of eastern Congo’s vast forests, and can emerge at any time. The previous nine outbreaks all abated within months, however. None killed more than 300 people. With approximately 1,800 deaths recorded so far, this one has claimed more than twice as many lives as the earlier nine combined. Only west Africa’s outbreak of 2014-2016, with 11,323 fatalities, has been deadlier. There are various explanations for this. Previous outbreaks took place in sparsely inhabited and mostly stable rural areas. The present epidemic is raging in a much more densely populated region. It has mostly affected the Nande ethnic group, many of whom are traders who travel from town to town, potentially carrying Ebola with them. The North Kivu province is also one of Congo’s most unstable. The Second Congo War, which claimed millions of lives, ended in 2003, but North Kivu has enjoyed little peace. Dozens of armed groups fighting myriad small wars, often for control of the area’s mineral resources, lurk in the region’s mountainous forests, emerging from time to time to massacre civilian populations. Insecurity has made the medical response mounted by the international community and the Congolese government both hazardous and logistically tricky. Armed groups have attacked Ebola treatment centres. Seven workers have been killed. Ebola survivors and their families receive assistance at the Beni treatment centre Aristote, a health promotion officer at the Beni treatment centre Twice, international aid agencies have had to suspend operations, hampering their ability to trace and vaccinate people who may have been in contact with victims. Each halt led to a surge in new cases. But the most significant problem is that many in the community refuse to believe Ebola is a normal disease. They suspect a conspiracy by the government and the international community to exterminate the Nande and steal their land. That may sound counterintuitive and self-harming, but the Nande have long loathed the government in Kinshasa, blaming it for fostering insecurity in the region. Armed groups, some with links to the regime, have killed hundreds of people in Beni in recent years. When the authorities used Ebola as a pretext to prevent voting in the area in last year’s general election, suspicions crystallised into certainty. ‘The problem is people here have very little trust in authority,’ says Aristote, a community outreach volunteer at Beni’s ETC. ‘They have lived through tragedy, much of it inflicted by the government. Some think Ebola is just a new strategy to kill people: “They used to kill us with weapons, now they kill us with illness.”’ Aristote’s job is to convince people that Ebola is not an invented disease. Sitting among visitors waiting outside the centre, he quietly tries to persuade them that the doctors are not planning to kill their relatives in order to sell their body parts to devil worshippers. Accompanied by survivors, he also evangelises in villages. Aristote was a mobile-phone salesman until the outbreak began; he gave up his lucrative position to work as a volunteer. Like other officials at the centre, from the doctors treating the sick to the nurses and orderlies disposing of hazardous waste, his is a job fraught with danger. Some 132 health workers have been infected by the virus; 41 have died. There are other perils, too. An angry mob killed two community outreach officers to the south of Beni last month. Ebola nurse Martine Gavor, 24, with one-year-old Joel Josue at the UNICEF creche in Butembo The daily tragedies make Aristote’s work all the more difficult. At the entrance of the centre, a woman in a blue dress falls to her knees in grief. Her third child has just died, and she blames the doctors. ‘The people here are killing my children,’ she sobs, as the relatives of other patients look on in horror. Aristote’s work has just become harder still. There are other deaths too. Outside the centre’s mortuary, a gaggle of mourners wait for the body of Elodie Kitsama, a 19-year-old student, who fell sick in her village a fortnight earlier. ‘She felt cold, she was vomiting,’ says her eldest brother, Alexis, wearing a photograph of his sister around his neck. ‘It didn’t cross our mind it could be Ebola, so we just treated her for malaria.’ As is not uncommon, Elodie lived in a commune with 50 members of her extended family. Although they have now been vaccinated, and Elodie’s bed and clothes burnt, they are all at risk. Aristote’s work has had an impact, however. The family understand the need for a safe burial. In groups of four, they view Elodie’s body through a glass partition, before standing back as men in suits place her sealed coffin on the back of a lorry. The mourners will have to keep a safe distance even when her body is lowered into the ground at a cemetery patrolled by policemen. It is all a far cry from a traditional Congolese funeral, where mourners weep over and caress the deceased. This is one of the most common causes behind the rapid spread of the disease. Ebola tore through Neema Pilipili’s family after they handled the body of her nephew, who – unbeknown to his relatives – had died of the disease. Within a fortnight, nine members would be dead, including her father, mother and sister. When Ebola wipes out most of a family in such a short time, it is not hard to see why conspiracy theories take hold. The dead are handled and buried only by trained health workers in protective clothing Health workers carry the body of Elodie Kitsama, 19, who died after four days at the centre Until March, Sylvain, Ishara and Kathia Vitswa, aged 17, 15 and 11 respectively, were members of a raucous family of 10. Within a week, their number was reduced by six: three brothers died, then their mother Laurentine and her baby daughter, infected by her breast milk, and finally another sister. Their father, overcome with grief, refuses to live with his surviving sons and still does not believe that it was Ebola that devastated his life. ‘He thinks white people are poisoning the Nande in order to steal their land,’ says Sylvain, who, along with Ishara, is now training to be a mechanic to support his family. Unless his mother returns, or another relative steps forward, Bahati too may be left to fend for himself. First he will have to survive, of course. There is one happy corner in Beni’s ETC. Clapping along to rumba music, a gaggle of patients exchange banter on the recovery ward. After a month in the CUBEs, they are now able to enjoy the fresh air and feed themselves. Fazeela Mayamoto dandles her seven-month-old son on her knee while scolding his four-year-old brother, who has been blowing raspberries at an older male patient. All three are certain to recover, although they have to remain in the red zone until they are no longer contagious. While she is still coming to terms with the death of her eldest son, Mayamoto can scarcely believe that so many of her family, including her husband, who has already been discharged, have survived. Within a week, she and her younger children will be home, cured and immune. ‘We are living a miracle. God has given us a second chance.’ What are the chances that, after a month, Bahati too could end up in this happy place? Exhausted, his doctor, Kasereka Nzala, refuses to be drawn. He might pull through, he might not. It all depends on his viral load. Becoming emotional about one case, he sighs, is no way to get through the job. He has seen far too much death to be sentimental. ‘Ebola is a cruel disease,’ he says, and leaves it at that. Protect yourself and your family by learning more about Global Health Security Global Health Bulletin REFERRAL article

Glass eyes, medieval combs and human skulls – how mudlarking helped me cope with life

Scouring the shores of the Thames, Lara Maiklem uncovers pieces of the city’s forgotten past ‘All you need are wellies, a bag for finds and sunscreen. I’ll bring the latex gloves.’ Lara Maiklem’s email, sent a week before our encounter, has done its work. I arrive on the Greenwich foreshore to meet the author and amateur historian well oiled, substantially booted and slightly worried. Looking for London’s past in what Dickens described as the ‘slime and ooze’ of the Thames suddenly seems like a silly idea. In her new book, Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames, Maiklem follows the river from its western tidal head at Teddington Lock to its arrival at the sea in the east, recounting what has been found on its fringes along the way. The book is a hybrid of personal memoir, London history and literary cabinet of curiosities. She tells of treasures – Iron Age pots, coins, garnets galore and the ‘soft butteriness’ of gold – but also bloated corpses, riverside morgues and the dreaded ‘Thames tummy’ she occasionally acquired as a result. Still, this is Greenwich, I tell myself, where time and tide are orderly. I descend the river steps to the gentle sound of a piano breezing from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance in the Old Royal Naval College. Maiklem strides over the shingle with a beaming smile. Some 20 years ago, she began searching this shoreline for debris from the Palace of Placentia, the birthplace of Henry VIII, which once dominated Greenwich. This place made her a mudlark – or, as the 20th-century archaeologist Ivor Noël Hume called them, ‘a something-for-nothing collector’. Her London Mudlark Facebook page has helped to popularise the pastime. And today she is offering me a masterclass. There is something Tiggerish in Maiklem’s enthusiasm for this messy business. With a lick of vanilla-blonde hair and a rumbling Sid James laugh, she waxes lyrical about a pair of Roman castration clamps uncovered at London Bridge.We begin at the western end of the foreshore, near Cutty Sark, where remnants of a medieval jetty poke out of the shoreline like a black, snapped spine. Beyond this point is an area listed as a scheduled monument, a site of national archaeological interest, from which nothing can be removed. The river can throw up unpleasant surprises – false teeth, cannulas, colostomy bags and corpses bob up Credit: Zoë Savitz But there is plenty to be found where we are. ‘This is a piece of the palace; this is from a window,’ Maiklem says, bending down next to a chunk of pale masonry. Her hands sweep across the pebbles, plucking items out of the gloop that, to me, are hardly visible. ‘This is a piece of 16th or 17th century German stoneware, so that would have been used in the palace. There are bones, there are oyster shells. That’s a Tudor brick, you can tell by how thin it is. This is where you find little things stuck to the surface, like pins and buttons.’ The river’s natural panning action sorts its bounty. Maiklem recently found a human skull on the Thames Estuary (mudlarks are competitive and notoriously cagey about where exactly they have struck lucky). She believes it belonged to one of the inmates from the prison hulks that were moored along the estuary during the late 18th century. ‘It’s not a modern skull, you can tell it’s been in there for ages. Other bits of him were lying all over the place. We gathered up all the bones we could find and buried them in a shallow grave, marked it, took a GPS, and then the police went and dug it up.’ She was swabbed for DNA to eliminate her from investigations. The estuary dungeons were often used as holding pens for prisoners before transportation to the colonies. During the research for her book, Maiklem discovered that one of her own ancestors had been held in them in the early 19th century before a stretch of hard labour in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). Paola A Magni, a forensic science lecturer at Murdoch University in Perth, read about the skull on Facebook and got in contact. ‘She is, get this, a specialist in barnacle colonisation of human remains, so she’s over the moon about this,’ Maiklem says. ‘I’m trying to get the coroner to hand it over. But you know what they’re like: “Ah, computer says no.”’ Bending down, she extracts a miniscule aglet – possibly the lace-end to a bodice – from the reluctant ground, which has the consistency of cake mix. Has Thames mud changed over the centuries? ‘I don’t think so,’ she says, prodding the gunk with her finger. ‘Think about what it’s made up of; it’s made of poo.’ Maiklem grew up on a dairy farm in Surrey during the 1970s and ’80s. It was a solitary childhood – she had much older brothers – which forged a fondness for daydreaming and foraging (she would hoard sun-dried snakeskins, birds’ eggs and bottle stoppers). Things progressed fast. ‘I was 10 years old when I found my first human bone,’ she writes in Mudlarking. While picnicking with her mother in the churchyard of Southwark Cathedral, Maiklem found part of a skeleton among the roses. It was, she recalls in the book, ‘a perfect end to a perfect day’. Lara Maiklem has discovered coins, a shoe, medieval combs and more Credit: Zoë Savitz She hated history at school. ‘It was boring,’ she says. ‘Facts and dates, kings and queens. I want to know about ordinary people who I can relate to. The people who lived in my house, the people I descended from. How they survived, what they used, how they lived. The forgotten people. That’s history for me.’ After studying sociology and social anthropology at Newcastle University, Maiklem moved to London. An editor of illustrated reference books, she worked for years at Dorling Kindersley and now takes freelance publishing projects. It is a role – like being a mudlark – that requires general knowledge and a visual instinct. A few years ago she edited the Kiss Monster book – touted as the largest rock book ever published – a 3ft-high tome dedicated to Kiss, the American band notorious for their wild antics and even wilder make-up. ‘I ended up going on tour with them. It was bonkers.’ Maiklem began her river life as a walker. Having gone ‘party crazy’ during the 1990s, she found respite on its banks when she moved from Hackney to Greenwich. ‘I missed the farm and looked everywhere for somewhere nice and quiet.’ Gradually, she realised that she was walking on the city’s flotsam and jetsam. ‘Like lots of people in London, for some reason I didn’t know I could get down here,’ she says. ‘It took me a while to realise [the river] went up and down.’ In her book, she explains that the tide is the mudlark’s metronome, but people can easily get stranded on isolated patches of the foreshore known as ‘pinch points’ if they miss its beat. Mudlarking helped her through the death of her father and the breakup of a relationship. Subsequently, it smoothed her way into marriage and parenthood. Sarah, Maiklem’s wife – a ‘foreshore widow’ – does not share her passion (‘She just stands there saying, “Can we go now?”’). And their children are too young to join in. Moving out of London has meant that trips to the Thames, like today’s, are cherished. A 'Mudlarker' searches along the exposed foreshore of the River Thames at low tide across from the Tate Modern Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Europe Turning east, Maiklem guides me towards the jetty of Greenwich Power Station, which looms overhead like a creature from The War of the Worlds. Under its grey legs is a ridge of animal bones, the remnants of Tudor feasts. ‘The police get calls all the time from worried people who think they’ve discovered a massacre.’ Somewhere in this morbid landscape she spots a clay pipe bowl from the mid-1700s. She challenges me to find it. Mudlarks call this ‘getting your eye in’. The key, I’m told, is to relax your gaze and let anomalies pop out – anything straight or round, handmade rather than organic. And there it is: a smooth cone in a pile of rough lines. She picks up another item and holds it out to me. In her hand is a sickle of bone and teeth. I flinch. ‘You are a delicate flower,’ she chortles. ‘It’s a sheep’s jawbone. Lovely colours.’ Bagging my pipe bowl – swiftly complemented by a tiny white Roman tessera conspicuous by its geometry – we leave the shore and go for lunch at the Trafalgar Tavern. This landmark building was immortalised by Dickens in Our Mutual Friend. Victorian diners would throw coins from its windows to children waiting in the mud below. Today it is a homogenised family pub. But it still serves whitebait, which we take out on to the terrace. Maiklem produces a selection of her favourite finds from her backpack and spreads them over the table: a child’s shoe similar to those found on the wreck of the Mary Rose, a 12th-century Celtic buckle plate, a Georgian wig curler. Peering up at us from the centre of this smorgasbord is a turn-of-the-century glass eye with a hand-blown, finely feathered green iris. Teeth, keys, dice and bottles can all be found when mud larking Credit: Zoë Savitz It is, she explains, the anticipation of the find that provides the thrill, rather than the discovery. Her searches are bookended by scouring maps – stairs to the water and large riverside houses are sites of interest – and researching discoveries (often with the help of the Museum of London). Her objects are then pigeonholed in an ink-stained printer’s chest at home in Kent. She is particular about what she keeps: ‘I want to move at some point.’ Sometimes mudlarks swap items of interest and choice pieces are often gifted or sold to institutions (Maiklem donated a gold Tudor lace-end to the Museum of London). Her first extraordinary discovery, she recalls, was a 16th-century clay pipe shaped like a cockerel – ‘He was missing his beak’ – and was possibly a children’s toy called a ‘cockshy’. ‘Don’t ever try googling that,’ she warns me. ‘You get something else.’ It’s just one inscrutable word in a whole lexicon of mysterious terms she retrieves with relish. She resurrects ‘jettons’ (coin-like tokens), ‘lumpers’ (cargo dockers) and ‘toshers’ (sewer hunters). Mudlarking is not a hobby for the faint-hearted. The river can throw up some unpleasant surprises (false teeth, cannulas, colostomy bags and two fresh corpses all bob up in Maiklem’s book). What, I ask, has been the worst? ‘Fatberg,’ she says without hesitation. ‘I’ve never smelt anything like it. Horrific.’ She occasionally finds rancid ‘yellow-grey blobs’ of fat and other matter ‘lurking inconspicuously among the gravel after a sewage spill’. A chapter in the book on the marshes and beaches of Tilbury is particularly bracing. ‘I want to put people off going there because it’s dangerous,’ she says. ‘There’s a difference between a bit of sewage and bit of arsenic and asbestos.’ Pottery can be found along the river bank Credit: Zoë Savitz There is no such thing as a typical mudlark, Maiklem maintains, but a love of one’s own company is a prerequisite. It is a realm for magpies and obsessives. ‘There is the Society for Clay Pipe Research. They have a conference once a year,’ she chuckles. ‘I consider myself quite normal compared to most of the people I have met.’ A large cast of historical Thames eccentrics appear in Mudlarking. The most famous is TJ Cobden-Sandersen, an Edwardian printer who sprinkled half a million pieces of metal type off Hammersmith Bridge (he didn’t want the font of his Doves Press used for publications unworthy of the Lord). Maiklem pulled the only comma to have been salvaged from the river, and the epigraphs to her chapters are all set in the font. Maiklem calls the Thames the ‘home of mudlarking’ as it has 2,000 years of history and the tidal movement means there is a constant ebb and flow of things to find. And it still has its fair share of rogues and chancers. ‘There are people who abuse the foreshore, who take things they shouldn’t take,’ Maiklem says, acknowledging that regulation is necessary. There is a two-tier system of mudlarking permits, one for surface finds and another for deep digging. The latter is restricted to members of the Thames Mudlark Society, of which Maiklem is not a part. There are about 50 members of the society but probably hundreds who search using a standard permit. There were hardly any female mudlarks when she started, she says, likening it to the male-dominated clique in the BBC metal-detecting comedy Detectorists. But things are changing. ‘There is a hardcore of mudlarks who want to keep it to themselves; they don’t want to share their toys. But it’s our shared history, it doesn’t belong to any one group of people.’ Copy of More from Tel Mag 07/08 When she began posting online many readers thought London Mudlark was a man, an assumption shattered when her book was announced. ‘One woman said, “You’ve broken my heart. I had this vision of you. You were a young, strapping archaeologist with a beard.”’ As Maiklem packs up her precious objects, I’m curious to know if there is a danger of missing out on the present by being immersed in the past. ‘No. The moment you come off the foreshore you’re thrown back into the 21st century. And in London it’s a big wham!’ But she always returns. ‘Once you realise what’s here you get obsessed with it... Because you never know what you’re going to find. Every day it’s a different treasure hunt.’ Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames (Bloomsbury, £18.99) is published on 22 August. To pre-order your copy for £16.99 plus p&p;, visit books.telegraph.co.uk or call 0844-871 1514

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