Florida Keys residents say they feel a strong sense of community and see a fast recovery as restaurants reopen and cleanup crews remove debris caused by the powerful storm that struck the state on September 10.

Nigerians respond to the news that the country has identified its first Ebola case in Africa's latest outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of the virus. "It was so shocking when we got the news," says Anthony Ojoghom, adding "I was alarmed". The patient is a diplomat who travelled from Uganda to Nigeria. She is breing treated in hospital.

In the Les Halles district of Paris, residents are pushing back against a newly imposed nighttime curfew in parts of the capital. "Why a curfew?" asks Gisela Restrepo, a film editor. "And why punish the people who live in the neighbourhood because of a few individuals who keep smashing things up?" It comes after a weekend of demonstrations over the cost of living degenerated into riots.

Separatists insist "this is not defeat" as Canada's province of Alberta rejects a plan to hold a binding independence referendum. At a restaurant in the provincial capital Edmonton, where a leading separatist group is holding a watch party, independence supporters tell AFP their movement will only continue to grow.

Australians are in shock as Australian lawmaker Helen Haines loses her leg after a vehicle attack outside her constituency office in Wangaratta. Haines was struck by a Toyota Land Cruiser in the town, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) northeast of Melbourne, at around 3:35 p.m. (0435 GMT), in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls a "deliberate act". "Shocked and disbelief that this has happened in our community, where Helen has been such an advocate for everybody," says Ashley Rogers, a local resident.

Hong Kong's annual underwater hockey tournament, ominously advertised as "physical hell", drew a roster of hardcore enthusiasts from countries across Asia to the Chinese city over the weekend. The sport, previously known as "octopush", was invented in England in 1954 as a way to keep divers fit during the off-season winter months.