Nadia Marcinko, an ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, was one of four women named as his "potential co-conspirators" in a 2008 plea deal granting them immunity from prosecution - but now she and others may face scrutiny from US legislators. Marcinko has never been accused of, or charged with, any crime and her lawyers say she is one of Epstein's victims. The BBC has found evidence suggesting that over many years, he asked her to recruit other women to help satisfy his sexual desires and she complied. But emails also expose deeply coercive tendencies on Epstein's part.

It appears as though the Ebola outbreak in east Africa is more widespread than first thought. And at the heart of the crisis, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its effects are being widely felt. Emery Makumeno from BBC Africa has been speaking to people there, and there's concern over the apparently slow response to the health crisis, he writes. "Ebola has tortured us," a taxi rider in the gold-mining town of Rwampara tells him. "I am scared because people are dying very fast."