An Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is set ablaze by residents in outage over the handling of the public health crisis. (Journal Gazette)
The U.S. Supreme Court dimisses an appeal by the state of Alabama challenging a lower court decision to block the execution of Joseph Clifton Smith, an intellectually disabled man convicted of a 1997 murder. The court says that executing Smith would violate his constitutional rights. (The Guardian)