Global health concerns led the day, with India urging citizens to avoid non-essential travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and South Sudan after the WHO declared the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency. The warning underscores how seriously officials view the spread of the Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no approved vaccine or specific treatment. Elsewhere, a fatal shark attack near Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef highlighted the ever-present risks in Australia’s coastal waters. In Paris, tennis player Marta Kostyuk’s French Open victory was overshadowed by war, after she revealed a Russian missile struck near her parents’ home in Kyiv just before her match. In the United States, a bystander remained in serious condition after gunfire erupted near a White House checkpoint, where Secret Service agents fatally shot the suspect. And at 106, Pearl Harbor survivor Freeman Johnson offered a poignant reminder of history’s living witnesses as their ranks continue to fade.