Day: October 16, 2014

News Desk: Some revolutions happen in a single day; others over decades. The rise of the voluntarily single woman has been happening in Western societies slowly, over time, concomitant with well-paying jobs, legal protection from economic or physical abuse, reliable birth control and the possibility of fulfilling careers and adventures. Women are marrying at a later age these days, cohabiting with their partners or going in and out of short-term relationships without ever walking down the aisle, reports CNN. Currently, 53% of women over 18 are in the singles column. Put another way, women now have choices that allow them to customize the arc of their lives and some of them find that it is best for them to put marriage aside. Is this natural? Is this bad? Is this cause for alarm? We ...

A nurse with ebola who was able to board a flight in the US despite suffering from a fever did tell officials she was running a temperature, it has emerged.Amber Vinson was able to travel from Cleveland, Ohio, to Dallas on a commercial plane even though she was showing the early symptoms of the killer disease.She has now had to be transferred to a specialist unit in Atlanta where she will be treated in isolation and monitored. It was previously not known that she had made the authorities aware she was not feeling well before taking the flight on 13 October. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been forced to track down 132 other passengers who were on the plane at the same time in case they too have been infected. Federal officials were forced to admit on Thursday ...