NICK CUMMING-BRUCE

The World Health Organization declared on Thursday the end to the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record, which killed and sickened tens of thousands of people in West Africa, even as it cautioned that more flare-ups of the disease were likely.

The aid organization Doctors Without Borders called Wednesday for a little-known international agency to carry out an independent investigation of the attack by a U.S. aircraft on its hospital in northern Afghanistan.

As Syria’s civil war drags on, families are being forced by deepening poverty and hardship to resort to more desperate survival strategies, including marrying off their young children or forcing them to work, the United Nations said.