Democrats Stage a Sit-in Demanding Tighter Gun Laws

There have been extraordinary scenes in the US Congress, where Democratic Party politicians are staging a sit-in to demand tighter gun laws. They've occupied the floor of the House of Representatives late into the night.

The medical charity MSF says that nearly two-hundred people, who fled the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, have died of starvation and dehydration in the past month at a makeshift camp in north-eastern Nigeria. In a statement, the group says a catastrophic humanitarian emergency is unfolding at the camp, in the city of Bama, which now shelters more than twenty-thousand people.

There's important news for women in New York City after a landmark decision taken by the city's Council. It voted unanimously to pass a set of bills which will supply and distribute for free menstrual-hygiene products in all public schools, prisons and homeless shelters.