UNITED STATES: Black trade union legend William “Bill” Lucy passed away at his home in the capital Washington on Wednesday, aged 90.

Mr Lucy was one of the organisers of the landmark 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike. He went on to become the founding president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists in 1972 and was a long-serving secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.  

PAKISTAN: Security forces killed eight militants in an overnight raid in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold in the volatile north-west bordering Afghanistan, the military said today.