DHAKA: Nigeria’s security agency says it has seized $800,000 in cash in raids targeting senior judges suspected of corruption. The DSS agency says the raids were carried out in recent days and several judges were arrested, reports the BBC. The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)

DHAKA: The health of Thailand’s king, the world’s longest reigning monarch, is “not stable” palace officials have said, as he receives treatment for ongoing medical conditions. King Bhumibol Adulyadej is widely revered and seen as an arbiter in Thailand’s divided political

Politics in the USA changed Sunday night as the once sacred tradition of a presidential debate - where candidates typically trade barbs over their vision of the country's future - exploded into something quite chilling during the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

DHAKA: A military helicopter has crashed in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, killing all eight people on board. Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the Afghan defense ministry, said on Sunday (October 9) that five crew members and three army soldiers were killed, reports Al Jazeera.

DHAKA: A passenger train has derailed near New York, injuring dozens of people, US officials say. The incident occurred at New Hyde Park in Nassau County. The injuries are not said to be life-threatening, reports the BBC. The 12-carriage Long Island Rail Road train carrying some 600

DHAKA: US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he will never drop out of the race to be president. He would never let his supporters down, he added. Trump has been under pressure after a tape from 2005 of him making obscene comments and bragging about groping and kissing women

DHAKA: Hurricane Matthew has killed at least 10 people in the US as it is moving along the country’s south-east coast. Three people died in North Carolina, said Governor Pat McCrory, who called Matthew “a very, very serious” storm. In Georgia, three people died, including a

DHAKA: Nearly 900 people are known to have been killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti, with aid officials saying up to 90 percent of some areas have been destroyed. Some of the hardest-hit towns are yet to be reached by land, and there are fears more bodies will be found. Parts of

DHAKA: The White House on Saturday condemned a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a funeral home in Yemen that local health officials said killed at least 155 people. “US security cooperation with Saudi Arabia is not a blank check,” US National Security Council Spokesman Ned Price

DHAKA: President Barack Obama has formally eased long-standing sanctions on Myanmar. Obama issued the executive order weeks after meeting Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, reports the BBC. Myanmar’s access to trade benefits for poorer nations was suspended in 1989

Republican presidential runner of Donald Trump was forced to apologize over his obscene comments Donald Trump made about women in a 2005 videotape. In the video, posted by the Washington Post, Trump is heard telling TV host Billy Bush “you can do anything” to women “when

The UN has warned it could take days for the full impact of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti to emerge, as the death toll soars to more than 800. The death toll has doubled, and may rise, as rescue teams gain access to southern areas cut off by the storm, reports the BBC. The World Food

DHAKA: The number of people killed in Haiti by Hurricane Matthew has risen sharply into the hundreds, as coastal villages and towns began making contact with the outside world two days after being hit by the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade. Bodies started to appear late on

DHAKA: António Guterres was formally nominated by the UN Security Council as the organization’s 9th Secretary General. In the coming days his name will be given to the 193-member General Assembly for formal approval. Guterres, who was prime minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002,

DHAKA: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize in a competitive year with a record 376 candidates vying for the award. The five-member Norwegian committee announced its decision on Friday, the only one of six Nobel awards to be presented in Oslo and the one

The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade, has crossed 300. Some 50 people were reported killed in the town of Roche-a-Bateau alone, reports the BBC. The nearby city of Jeremie saw 80% of its buildings leveled. In Sud

Hurricane Matthew could take a turn and head back to Florida again after making landfall this week, according to some forecast models. The first impact to Central Florida will be more dangerous; Matthew could make landfall in Florida early Friday as a Category 4 hurricane, according to

The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew has soared to 283, the government says. Some 50 people were reported to have died in the southern town of Roche-a-Bateau alone, reports the BBC. The peninsula's main city, Jeremie, saw 80 percent of its buildings levelled.

DHAKA: At least six people have been killed after typhoon ‘Chaba’ battered South Korea, authorities said. The southern cities of Busan and Ulsan were worst affected, as well as the resort island of Jeju. Transport, schools, factories and the country’s main port ground to a

DHAKA: As Hurricane Matthew sets its sights on the US, more than two million people have already been urged to flee their homes, with more evacuations likely as the deadly storm makes its way past the Bahamas. State officials in Florida, South Carolina and Georgia cautioned residents