BBC News with Sumond Garmery.

Senior bishops reviewing Roman Catholic teaching on the family have called on the church to adopt more positive stance on homosexuality. A preliminary statement issued by the bishops at the Vatican Senate said the church should recognize some positive aspects of the civil unions, even though stressed the traditional belief that valid marriage could only take place between a man and a woman. David Rilly reports from Rome.

This is an unusual change of tone in the Vatican document as a result of pressure by Pope Francis to recognize what he calls the gifts and qualities that gay couples may offer to the church. Catholic churches is seen to condemn all homosexual relations as intrinsically disordered. But pope Francis has recommended a new more compassionate attitude towards gays, expressed his now famous remark to journalists last year, who am I to judge?

The United Nations has warned a new refugee crisis in Iraq’s western Ambar province where there are as many as 180000 people fleeing the city of heat. The UN agency O says tens of thousands of families have left in the past few days as Islamic State fighters consolidate their hold in this area. S L in Baghdad.

What happened to them is what so called Islamic State militants managed to fully control the heat military base after Iraqi troops withdrew, leaving behind a lot of ammunition weapons and armed vehicles under the control of the militants. This actually will give them a boost to escalate the offensive across the Ambar province. Now they controlled around 70% of the strategic province.

The Pentagon says US and Saudi warplanes have carried out 8 air strikes in the last 24 hours against Islamic State positions around the Syrian town of Karbany. Syrian opposition activists said an Islamic suicide bomber detonated a truck loaded with explosives in the Karbany’s northern district, close to the Turkey’s border.

The American and British government are stepping up efforts to fight the spread of the deadly Ebola virus outside west Africa where it has killed more than 4000 people. The director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, Tom Freeman, has urged hospitals to look out for symptoms in people arriving from 3 western African countries. The US has already begun screening for Ebola symptoms at J.F.K airport in New York. Britain’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt announced the UK will begin screening passengers at Heathrow on Tuesday.

Passengers will have their temperature taken and complete a questionnaire asking about their current health, recent travel history and whether they might be in potential risk of contacting with the Ebola patients and also be required to provide contact details.

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The authorizes in Kenya have launched a nationwide tetanus immunization campaign despite stiff opposition from the Catholic Church which alleges the vaccine can cause sterility in woman. The campaign is targeting more than 2 million women and girls of reproductive age. The Health Ministry said the vaccine was safe and had been proved by the World Health Organization.

The government of Somalia has launched the country’s first postal service in more that two decades. It also introduces postcodes nationwide for the first time in Somalia’s history. Our Africa editor Richard Hamoton reports.

The minister of the post tele-communications Mohamed Eblaham told the BBC that the new postal service was being on road for three phases. The first step was for Somalia to become a member of the universal postal union, a United Nation’s body that coordinates international post. The second was to start receiving letters from abroad and the third was to send mail out of the country. Somalia was born out of the collapse of the government in 1991 have never known of postal service and no Somalia has ever had a postcode. This is another sign that life is slowly returning to normality. Last week, a private bank in Mogadishu opened the city’s first ever cash machine.

An Italian Judge has ordered the opening of a criminal investigation against two former South American presidents and other retired officials over the killing of Italian citizens in the 1970’s. The judge said 23 Italian citizens were kidnapped and killed by security forces during military ruling Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Uruguay.

British members of parliament are holding a symbolic debate on whether the government should recognize Palestine as a state. The move is intended to raise the politic profile of the issue following the collapse of peace talks on the conflict in Gaza earlier this year. The British Prime Minister David Cameron said the vote would not affect government policy.

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