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UPDATE 1-West Africans fill churches to pray for deliverance from 'devil' Ebola

* Sierra Leoneans, Liberians defy warnings, flock to churches * Both nations have declared state of emergency * Spanish priest to be treated with ZMapp experimental drug * Pharmaceutical company says to begin testing vaccine soon (Adds details) By Clair MacDougall and Um

Sunday newspaper round-up: Barclays, Carillion-Balfour, Ofgem

Rona Fairhead, the former boss of the Financial Times, and Howard Davies, the ex-chief City regulator, are the two leading candidates to chair Barclays, the Sunday Times reported. Fairhead ran the FT for seven years and is a non-executive director at HSBC. Davies is the Government's favourite troubl

Liberians fill churches to pray for deliverance from Ebola

By Clair MacDougall MONROVIA, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Liberians packed churches in the capital Monrovia on Sunday to seek solace from an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, defying official warnings to avoid public gatherings to try to contain an epidemic that has killed nearly 1,000 people in W

Clinical trial to start soon on GSK Ebola vaccine

* Drugmaker working on experimental vaccine with U.S. NIAID * Phase I trial to start shortly but no guarantee of success * GSK acquired vaccine after buying Swiss biotech Okairos By Ben Hirschler LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A clinical trial of an experimental vaccine agains

RPT-U.S. emergency labs ready to work on Ebola drugs if asked

(Repeating story first sent on Aug 9 to additional subscribers) By Sharon Begley and Toni Clarke NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - All three U.S. facilities established to quickly make vaccines and therapeutics in the event of a major public health threat say they are standing by

U.S. emergency labs ready to work on Ebola drugs if asked

By Sharon Begley and Toni Clarke NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - All three U.S. facilities established to quickly make vaccines and therapeutics in the event of a major public health threat say they are standing by to support any U.S. government effort to scale up a treatment for Ebo

UPDATE 3-China sentences GSK-linked investigators to prison

* Peter Humphrey and wife sentenced to jail * British corporate investigator to be deported * Unclear whether wife will also be forced to leave China * Couple have 10 days to appeal Shanghai court ruling (Recasts, adds statement from couple's son, testimony from trial) B

China sentences GSK-linked investigators to prison

SHANGHAI, Aug 8 (Reuters) - British corporate investigator Peter Humphrey was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison for illegally obtaining records on Chinese citizens, while his American wife was handed a two-year jail sentence, a court in Shanghai said on Friday. Briton Peter Humphr

RPT-UPDATE 1-Biotech firm Galapagos says GSK stops joint drug project

* GSK stops project in ulcerative colitis and psoriasis * Galapagos' main drug based on similar technology * Shares fall to two-year low (Repeats to additional subscribers) BRUSSELS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Belgian biotech group Galapagos said its partner GlaxoSmithKline had stoppe

UK MIDDAY BRIEFING: Afren Suspends Kurdistan Field Operations

China charges couple linked to GSK bribery allegations

A British investigator and his American wife were on Friday charged in China with illegally obtaining private information in a case that could provide details on the bribery probe against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Peter Humphrey and Yu Yingzeng, whose clients included GSK, were charged over a year aft

TOP NEWS: UK Trade Gap Unexpectedly Widens In June

M&A boost on euro bond market horizon

* Euro corporate bond market gears up for bumper H2 * More hybrid deals expected * M&A borrowers face leverage risks By Laura Benitez August 8 (IFR) - The European corporate bond market is expected to reload early after the summer break and is gearing up for a bumper secon

UK MORNING BRIEFING: Catlin Leads FTSE 350 Amid Nervous Market

Friday newspaper round-up: Iraq, Tesco, RBS...

Barack Obama has authorised targeted air strikes against Islamic militants in Iraq, as the US military began an airborne operation to bring relief to thousands of minority Iraqis driven to a grim, mountain-top refuge. Describing the threats against stranded Yezidi refugees as holding the potential f