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Ebola fighters named Time Person of the Year

By Associated Press in New York | China Daily | Updated: 2014-12-12 07:44

Doctors, nurses and others fighting Ebola through "tireless acts of courage and mercy" have been named Time magazine's 2014 Person of the Year.

The runners-up included Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba; protesters in Ferguson, Missouri; Russian President Vladimir Putin; and Kurdish Regional Government President Massoud Barzani.

Time's editor, Nancy Gibbs, praised "the people in the field, the special forces of Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres, the Christian medical relief workers of Samaritan's Purse and many others from allover the world".

Ebola fighters named Time Person of the Year

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