An 18-year-old woman in Australia is reportedly being tested for Ebola after she arrived from Guinea, "one of the worst countries areas in Africa", and developed a fever. She is now under surveillance at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital 11 days after touching down in Queensland and after being in home isolation for that entire time.The woman alerted authorities of her fever on Saturday and was taken to hospital today, while eight members of her family who also travelled to Australia with her remain in home quarantine.

Gujarat state administration is preparing to face 'Cyclone Nilofar', which has developed in the Arabian Sea and is likely to move towards the state's coast, Gujarat meteorological department said. Nilofar is likely to intensify further into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 24 hours. Under the influence of cyclone Nilofar, heavy to very heavy rainfall with wind speed of 45-60 kmph has been predicted to commence along the coastal districts of Saurashtra and Kutch from October 30 morning. 

More than 800 people have been killed in ground fighting for Kobani since Islamic State group militants attacked the Syrian Kurdish enclave on September 16, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. According to the report, the jihadists have lost 481, while 313 Kurds have been killed fighting to defend the area. The figures do not include IS losses to US-led airstrikes, which the Pentagon has said run to "several hundred".

The first meeting of the newly formed Haryana cabinet will be held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar at the state Civil Secretariat tomorrow, an official spokesman said. Khattar today took oath as Haryana Chief Minister, leading the first BJP government in the state since it was created 48 years ago. Six cabinet ministers, including a woman MLA Kavita Jain (Sonipat), and three Ministers of State (Independent Charge) were also sworn in at the event attended by a large number of people.

Ministers began to filter out of 7 RCR, PM Narendra Modi's residence after the highly talked about high tea party ended. While it was reported that Modi would push for his pet projects at the function, the event was being keenly watched for signs of a re-union with the Shiv Sena. Speaking of the meet after it ended, Parsottam Rupala from the BJP said, "PM extended his greetings to all MPs and asked us to implement Swachhata Abhiyan in our fields." Rajiv Pratap Rudy said it was a successful get together with presentations made by Nitin Gadkari and Arun Jaitley.

Maharashtra BJP Legislature Party will meet on Tuesday to elect their leader, paving the way for him to meet Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao and stake claim to form the government. The meeting to elect the Legislature Party Leader and the Chief Minister designate will be held at 11 am at Vidhan Bhavan on Tuesday, senior BJP leader Eknath Khadse said.

Hours after he was sworn in as the new Haryana chief minister, ML Khattar held a meeting with officials. Earlier in the day, Khattar took the oath of office at a mega event held in Panchkula which saw the who's who of the BJP present. PM Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and other BJP veterans like LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were present at the ceremony. 

The mother of Oscar Pistorius's girlfriend believes that her daughter was about to leave the disgraced athlete when he shot her dead in what a South African judge ruled to be culpable homicide. "Her clothes were packed. There is no doubt in our minds: she had decided to leave Oscar that night," she writes in her new book, serialised in the Times, adding that her daughter had confided to her that she "had not slept" with the runner and was "scared to take the relationship to that level."

There is a flurry of activity outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence at 7 RCR in Delhi as MPs of the National Democratic Alliance arrived for the high tea party. All eyes are on the party in light of the present political scenario in Maharashtra. Observers are keeping an eye out for any indication that may signal the coming together of the BJP and the Shiv Sena, which parted ways over sharing of seats ahead of the polls.

Britain's war in Afghanistan has ended with a final ceremony in Camp Bastion. The British flag was lowered in a moving ceremony, bringing to a conclusion the 13-year war in Afghanistan, which has claimed the lives of 453 British servicemen and women. All British soldiers will leave Camp Bastion within days, handing over the huge base to Afghan troops. Camp Bastion has been the main British base since 2006 and British troops have been in Afghanistan since 2001.

Sania Mirza and her doubles partner Cara Black finished the year on a sporting high after they won the WTA World Championships. The third-seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair defeated Chinese Taipei's Su-Wei Hsieh and China's Shuai Peng in straight sets 6-1, 6-0. This is Sania's first world title. 

Hyderabad police have launched "SHE" teams to keep vigil at public places in the wake of increasing attacks on women. Police commissioner Mahendar Reddy said 100 such all-women teams would be deployed at locations like college campuses, bus stands and ladies' hostels where teasing and stalking have become a menace.

A smartphone game that allows users to take part in Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests has become a hit among demonstrators and gamers."Yellow Umbrella", a free Android app, has been downloaded more than 40,000 times since it was released on Google Play, developer Awesapp said, although it has yet to receive approval from Apple and is noticeably absent from Google's online store in mainland China. In the game, users are placed on virtual blockades that they must defend against tear gas-wielding police officers, triad thugs and embattled Hong Kong leader CY Leung dressed as a wolf. In keeping with the non-violent nature of the student-led protests, players cannot attack assailants, but can defend using umbrellas, incense sticks and durian fruit.

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking, best known for his work on gravitational singularities and black hole radiation, has joined the popular social networking website Facebook. "I have always wondered what makes the universe exist. Time and space may forever be a mystery, but that has not stopped my pursuit," the 72-year-old astrophysicist wrote in his first post on Facebook.  "Our connections to one another have grown infinitely and now that I have the chance, I'm eager to share this journey with you. Be curious, I know I will forever be," he wrote.

The deaths of Islamic State group hostages James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Cawthorne Haines and Alan Henning were gruesome, shocking and very public, the video footage of their beheadings in the desert widely distributed by their captors. But the world has known little, if anything, about the months and years of captivity leading up to those final moments. It was hell.

Officials of the protocol department in Mantralaya are in a quandary over seating arrangement for Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he attends the swearing-in of the BJP government here later this week. "It is not common for the PM to attend swearing-in ceremony of state government and protocol department is trying to figure a way out regarding seating arrangement for him," a senior BJP leader said. "We suggested them that they should watch where PM sits during the swearing-in ceremony of Haryana government and accordingly make seating arrangements here," he said.

After ML Khattar took the oath, Captain Abhimanyu, Ram Bilas Sharma, OP Dhankar, Anil Vij and Narveer Singh take the oath as cabinet ministers in Haryana.

Manohar Lal Khattar from the BJP takes the oath of chief minister in Haryana. Sixty-year-old Khattar is the first Punjabi to become the chief minister of the state. He will also be Haryana's first non Jat chief minister in 18 years. Khattar and his cabinet are taking the oath in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah. Chief ministers of other BJP-rules states such as Rajasthan and Gujarat are also present at the ceremony along with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. 

The number of Ebola cases reported in the current outbreak topped 10,000, the World Health Organization said, as it added a new nation to the list of countries affected by the disease. In an update, the United Nations health agency said 4,922 people had died of confirmed, suspected or probable cases of Ebola. Almost all of the deaths were in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three West African countries at the center of the epidemic. A total of 10,141 confirmed, probable or suspected cases have been reported.

Bharatiya Janata Party's ML Khattar will be sworn in as the Haryana chief minister today. The stage is set and the party's senior leaders have arrived for the ceremony at Panchkula. BJP president Amit Shah, Gujarat and Rajasthan CMs Anandiben Patel and Vasundhara Raje have arrived for the ceremony. Speaking before the function, Khattar's brother, J Khattar, said, "He has kept the whole family together, he will do similar work in Haryana. We are sure."