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A UK military medic who has been discharged from hospital after being declared free of Ebola said it was thanks to medics that she is alive.

Cpl Anna Cross was the first person in the world to be given the experimental Ebola drug MIL 77, her doctors said.

Cpl Cross, aged 25, from Cambridge, caught the virus while working as a volunteer nurse in Sierra Leone.

During her illness she lost 22lb (10kg) and spent 14 days being treated at London’s Royal Free Hospital.

Doctors at the hospital said they were “absolutely thrilled” she had made a full recovery.

They described the drug she was given as a close relative of the medicine ZMapp – which British nurse William Pooley received when he was treated for Ebola.

Experts at the Royal Free said MIL 77 was made in China and that a limited supply was available, should anyone need it.

It is too soon to know what role the drug played in Cpl Cross’s recovery, they added.

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North Korea says it has arrested two South Korean men who it accused of spying for Seoul.

In a statement late on Thursday, state media said the two men, based in the Chinese border city of Dandong, were working to smear North Korea.

Seoul called the claims “groundless” and demanded the men be released.

North Korea periodically arrests foreigners and, in the cases of South Korean and US nationals, is accused of using them as bargaining chips.

It also arrests those engaged in missionary work, because religious activity is severely restricted in North Korea.

Sometimes it swiftly deports those held, as in the case of Australian missionary John Short, who was briefly detained in 2014.

But individuals from nations at odds with Pyongyang, or from which it is seeking concessions, are held for longer.

Last year, a South Korean missionary named Kim Jong-uk was given a life sentence after North Korea convicted him of spying and setting up an underground church.

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At least 10 Hindu pilgrims have been killed in a stampede during a bathing ritual at a holy site in Narayanganj, Bangladesh.

Police inspector Nasir Ahmed told AFP news agency the crush had involved “huge numbers of people”.

The 16 quays used for the ritual bathing were unable to cope with so many devotees, police told bdnews 24.

The incident happened during the Astami Snan, one of the largest annual Hindu ceremonies in Bangladesh.

Around a million pilgrims from Bangladesh and surrounding countries travel to the area each year to wash in the Brahmaputra river at Langalband, 20km (12 miles) south of the capital, Dhaka.

Mr Ahmed said police were investigating what had gone wrong.

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Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition are bombing Yemen for a third night, targeting Shia Houthi rebels as they advance in and around the port of Aden.

The rebel advance has sparked street battles with forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, who fled Aden and is now at an Arab League summit.

Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh – whose supporters are fighting alongside the rebels – has called for a truce.

But Saudi Arabia has vowed to defend Mr Hadi’s government from the rebels.

The Sunni kingdom has accused its regional rival, Shia-led Iran, of backing the Houthis.

It has mobilised a coalition, including Gulf Arab states and Egypt, to roll back the rebels’ advance in a mission codenamed Operation Decisive Storm.

US President Barack Obama spoke to Saudi King Salman on Friday and reaffirmed his support for the military action, the White House said in a statement.

Mr Obama and King Salman agreed their goal is to achieve lasting stability in Yemen through a negotiated political solution, the statement said.

The US military rescued two Saudi pilots who ejected from their F-15 fighter jet over the Gulf of Aden, a US defence official said on Friday.

He said the two were rescued in international waters at 21:20 GMT by a helicopter from Djibouti after Saudi Arabia requested assistance.

A statement on the Saudi SPA news agency said the plane had been hit by a technical fault.

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A brother of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has died in hospital after being attacked with an axe on Thursday, police have said.

Priyantha Sirisena suffered severe head injuries in his hometown of Polonnaruwa, north-east of the capital Colombo, AFP news agency reports.

Colombo Gazette reports there was a “private dispute” and a man has been arrested.

The president is out of the country on a state visit to China.

His youngest brother, a businessman and father of three, was attacked on Thursday evening “during an altercation with a friend” said a government statement.

He was flown to Colombo to be treated for head injuries but despite surgery he died on Saturday, said doctors.

Official sources have said Priyantha Sirisena, 42, was the youngest in a family of 12 children.

President Sirisena came to power following bitterly fought January presidential elections.

Unlike most former Sri Lankan leaders, he has not extended personal security for his siblings and is known to have drastically scaled down his own protection unit.