DAILY AFFAIRS (11-SEPTEMBER-2018)

Migrant crisis: Scores drown off Libyan coast

More than 100 migrants died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coastline earlier this month, an aid agency says.

Russia launches biggest war games since Cold War

Russia has launched its biggest military exercise since the Cold War, involving about 300,000 service personnel, in eastern Siberia.

Kulsoom Nawaz: Ex-Pakistan PM's wife dies in London

Kulsoom Nawaz, the wife of Pakistan's ousted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has died in London. She was 68.

Serena Williams: Cartoonist denies US Open depiction is racist

An Australian cartoonist has defended his depiction of Serena Williams at the US Open, after the image went viral and was criticised as racist and sexist.

India top court rejects appeal to save 'man-eating' tiger

India's Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal to stop forest rangers from killing a "man eating" tigress in the western state of Maharashtra.

ICC 'undeterred' by US sanctions threat

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said it will continue "undeterred" in the face of threats by the US.