Global health concerns dominate the day, as the World Health Organization warns that the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is growing with alarming speed, with more than 500 suspected cases and roughly 131 deaths reported and fears rising over cross-border spread. The lack of a vaccine or targeted treatment for the Bundibugyo strain has added urgency ahead of an emergency WHO meeting. Elsewhere, public health and public order intersected grimly in San Diego, where police had already been searching for two missing teenagers before authorities linked them to a mosque shooting that killed three men. In Tehran, Iran staged mass weddings for couples pledging wartime “self-sacrifice,” turning a deeply personal rite into a public display of state mobilization. And in Hong Kong, a far less grave but widely watched case saw an Australian lawyer accused in an alleged dine-and-dash spree that ricocheted across social media.