EBOLA: Ebola has killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo in the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease. SOUTH KOREA: A group of eight South Korean students were detained yesterday for allegedly breaking into a US air base while shouting anti-US slogans, South Korean authorities said. They were later transferred to the custody of South Korean authorities, police said. Several fires that burnt through mountain communities and coastal areas west of the Greek capital were brought under control overnight. Costas Tsingas, head of the Greek Firefighters Association, said: “The goal is for the day to end better than it started.”