Hurricane Matthew Claims Lives

Hurricane Matthew has pummelled Haiti with winds of more than two-hundred-and-twenty kilometres per hour -- wrecking crops and homes along the southern coast. Initial reports say the hurricane killed two people in Haiti and four in the neighbouring Dominican Republic.

The two American vice-presidential candidates have held their first televised debate. The Democrat, Tim Kaine, faced the outgoing Republican governor of Indiana Mike Pence at Farmville in Senator Kaine's home state of Virginia.

More than seventy countries will discuss raising billions more dollars for Afghanistan to keep the country running until 2020. But the meeting has been overshadowed by the growing threat of the Taliban insurgency.