Boko Haram gunmen have opened fire in a college dormitory in northeast Nigeria as the students slept, killing at least 40 people.
Three people have been killed and six others severely injured in a bomb attack on a convoy of Afghan and foreign forces near Kandahar International Airport in southern Afghanistan.
The ailing Saudi King has been taken to hospital unconscious and suffering from shortness of breath after his health deteriorated over midnight, a Saudi activist says.