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Malaysia

Defect forces jet to turn back

A Malaysia Airlines flight to India returned to Kuala Lumpur early Sunday due to an autopilot defect shortly after takeoff. The captain turned back as a precaution and the defect didn't affect the safety of the aircraft or passengers, the airline said. The Boeing 738 plane, which had been heading to Hyderabad, landed safely at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport nearly four hours after takeoff.

Sierra Leone

Fourth doctor dies of Ebola

Sierra Leone has lost a fourth doctor to Ebola after a failed effort to transfer her abroad for medical treatment, a government official said on Sunday, a huge setback to the impoverished country that is battling the virulent disease amid a shortage of healthcare workers. Dr Olivet Buck died late Saturday, hours after the World Health Organization said it could not help to medically evacuate her to Germany.

Nigeria

Church building collapse kills 40

Forty people have now died as a result of a building collapse at the megachurch of one of Nigeria's most famous preachers and televangelists, the country's main rescue body said on Sunday. About 125 people were rescued from the rubble of the building, believed to be a guesthouse for foreign followers of T.B. Joshua's The Synagogue Church of All Nations, in the Ikotun area of Lagos.

Bangladesh

Push renewed to save wild tigers

Some 140 tiger experts and government officials from 20 countries met in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sunday to review progress toward an ambitious goal of doubling the number of tigers in the wild by 2022. Experts say the number declined to as few as 3,200 in 2010 from 100,000 only a century ago. But since then, poaching has reached critical levels and has emerged as the greatest threat to wild tigers.

AP - AFP

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