Officials said 10,600 people were moved to relief camps after being evacuated from the worst affected districts.

Factfile on polar bears, whose survival is threatened by global warming and related threats.

Mendis was 116 not out at stumps on day four and Mathews 117, with their record-breaking unbroken 246-run partnership setting a Sri Lankan record against New Zealand.

While he pledged to press forward with the economic reforms initiated under late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping in December 1978, Xi indicated that there would be no change to the one-party system.

David Berry Jr will be forced to see the animated movie at least once a month during his year-long jail term, the result of what law enforcement officials described as one of their 'largest-ever poaching investigations.'

India were chasing 287 runs to win but after being reduced to 112 for five at stumps on Monday, they were dismissed 146 runs short early on day five.

The non-binding resolution, which was passed by consensus without a vote, welcomes diplomatic efforts to end the crisis on the Korean peninsula

James Comey spoke after a spurt of anti-FBI tweets from the president over the past week alleged that the investigative body abused its powers in probing his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen and his former national security advisor Michael Flynn.

The ballot was among the demands the Green Party made during talks to join Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's progressive coalition government after the 2017 election.

Until recently, Immaculate Nyakato, 65, lived in Ituri, one of DR Congo's eastern provinces that borders Uganda.

The refugee pact, which did not provoke the controversy unleashed over a similar pact on migration, was approved by 181 countries.

The blaze broke out around 4 pm (1130 GMT) on the fourth floor of the government-run ESIC Kamgar hospital in the northern suburb of Andheri.

The centrist and pro-European Liberal Democrats, who have only 11 MPs in parliament, have been calling for a second referendum ever since the last one in 2016.

The latest Twitter outburst renewed the president's rock throwing at the central bank, which he accuses of undermining his economic agenda of tax cuts.

The Congolese army has battled militants from the Democratic FDLR since Sunday at the foot of the Mikeno volcano near the Rwandan border.

The so-called 'Pradamalia' creatures sparked outrage for their exaggerated red lips that brought blackface caricatures to mind.

The international human rights organisation said more than 2,000 were killed in 2018 alone, while the bloodshed had made thousands of other people homeless.

Cheika has faced a mounting backlash from dismayed fans and former players after winning just four of Australia's 13 Tests this year - their worst campaign in decades.