Chelsea go top of Premier League after nine-goal thriller at Everton

Chelsea came out on top in a nine-goal thriller at Everton to move to the summit of the Premier League as Manchester City suffered a shock defeat at home to Stoke and Manchester United dropped points at Burnley.

Chelsea demonstrated the full extent of their attacking power in the 6-3 victory over Everton at Goodison Park.

The win, in which Diego Costa opened and rounded off the scoring, made it three in three in the Premier League for the Blues.

Jose Mourinho's side got off to a flying start, with strikes from Costa and Branislav Ivanovic putting them two up after three minutes.

Kevin Mirallas pulled one back on the stroke of half-time, before a crazy period of five goals in 11 second-half minutes as Chelsea pulled clear only to be pegged back.

Seamus Coleman's unfortunate own goal after 67 minutes made it 3-1, only for Steven Naismith to finish neatly two minutes later.

Nemanja Matic's low strike had Chelsea 4-2 up in the 74th minute, but two minutes after that Samuel Eto'o, on for his Everton debut off the bench, headed home his side's third against his old club.

Ramires stabbed Chelsea's fifth past Tim Howard a minute later, and Costa finally put the result beyond doubt in the 90th minute, rounding Tim Howard to score.

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Mesut Ozil is perfect for Arsenal- Wenger

Ahead of his side's Premier League match with Everton, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has claimed midfielder Mesut Ozil is a 'perfect' player and insisted the Germany midfielder does not get the credit he deserves.

Ozil has been the subject of plenty of negative publicity since his 42.4 million-pound move from Real Madrid last summer, with his critics claiming he has had a limited impact in big games for the Gunners since his arrival.

Yet Wenger offered a stout defence of the midfielder, who won the World Cup with Germany this summer, as he insisted he was an underrated member of his squad.

"People are very harsh on Ozil because he's a player who is easy with his play," stated Wenger. "He will never be a tackler, but he's not getting enough praise.

"When you watch his game back the next day you think 'what a player'. Everything he does is intelligent and the timing of absolutely everything he does is absolutely perfect.

"You never catch him giving the ball too late. The number of players you catch giving the ball too late is unbelievable. You never get that with Ozil.

"He's like a guy who plays music with perfect timing. There aren't many players like that.

"There's been the same debate about him in Germany, but he was always in the team in the World Cup."

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Dogs EATING corpses of Ebola victims in Liberia

Dogs are digging up the corpses of Ebola victims buried in shallow graves in Liberia and eating them in the street, villagers have claimed.

Furious residents of Johnsonville Township, outside capital Monrovia, raised the alarm after packs of wild dogs were spotted digging up corpses from a specially-designated 'Ebola graveyard', dragging them into the open and feeding on their flesh. 

The grisly scenes came three weeks after government health officials - desperate to stem the country's rising infection rate - hurriedly buried the bodies despite a heated standoff with villagers who refused to give their permission to use the land.

But rather than resolve the dispute, Liberia's Ministry of Health burial team dug the graves at night to avoid further confrontation, making the infected bodies easy targets for scavengers, villagers say.

Now fears are mounting that the dogs - which cannot grow sick from the strain of Ebola running rampant through West Africa but can carry it - will be able to pass it on to humans through licking or biting.

'We are very disappointed in the Health Ministry, especially the government that took an oath to defend and protect us,' Alfred Wiah told The New Dawn. 'To see them act in such manner is unacceptable and we’ll never allow the government come to bury any longer.'

He added: 'They will be resisted by us because I think the government has failed to protect us. Why bring Ebola bodies and not bury them well?'

While the dogs are unlikely to grow sick from the virus, there is a strong chance they could still pass it on to humans, Dr. Stephen Korsman of the University of Cape Town’s medical virology division told News 24. 

'[The dogs'] infections appear to be asymptomatic,' he said. 'This means that dogs won’t get sick, but they still could carry a potential risk through licking or biting.'

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