Loose Women panellist Saira Khan has thanked fans for their overwhelming support after revealing she was sexually abused by a family member at 13 years old.

Ten years ago, less than a third of voters in President Daniel Ortega’s mining hometown backed him, but his support has since surged here and nationally, setting him up to win a third consecutive term this week despite criticism he is autocratic.

In the small southern market town of Molcaxac, 1,050km from the US border, Alicia Villa is praying to God that Republican candidate Donald Trump does not become the next president of the United States.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump brandished starkly different visions of America as they headed into a fierce final weekend of campaigning yesterday, one celebrating hope as the other bashed corruption.

As Americans vote for a new president on Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of voters in California’s Bay Area and Boulder, Colorado, will also decide whether they want levies on sugary drinks, another step toward making soda taxes a norm.

Climate change has started showing its effects on the health of the citizens as there has been an almost 20pc increase in the number of patients suffering from different allergies in the federal capital.

US forces conceded yesterday that its air strikes “very likely” resulted in civilian casualties in Afghanistan’s volatile Kunduz province, pledging a full investigation into the incident which triggered angry protests.

Islamic State (IS)’s claim of its first bomb attack in Turkey, just days after the extremist group’s leader called for attacks against the country, might herald a change of tactics for the so-called caliphate that could further unsettle the region.

Turkish authorities have ordered that the editor and senior staff of a leading opposition newspaper be arrested pending trial, as more pro-Kurdish officials were detained.

Sri Lankan Minister of Petroleum Resources Development Chandima Weerakkody pays obeisance at Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday visited Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Jail Memorial Museum and Four National Leaders Jail Memorial Museum inside the former Dhaka Central Jail in the capital.

Investigators have arrested 44 people in an attempt to quell religious tension that broke out in eastern Bangladesh after a Muslim crowd recently vandalised Hindu homes and temples, police said yesterday.