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Rice shipment brings relief to hungry, shortage-hit Comoros
Rice shipment brings relief to hungry, shortage-hit Comoros

It's late in the evening in the Comorian capital of Moroni but the city's port is filled with eager faces. All of this will "soon be just a bad memory," declared Youssouf, wearing a high-visibility vest as he oversaw the offloading in the port of Moroni on Monday night.

Power blackouts hit 130 million people in Bangladesh
Power blackouts hit 130 million people in Bangladesh

At least 130 million people in Bangladesh were left without power on Tuesday after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts, the government's power utility company said. Ahsan said 130 million people or more were without electricity and it remained unclear what had caused the fault.