International Red Cross Cuts Presence in Afghanistan

The head of ICRC in Afghanistan says it was a painful decision to close offices in Maimana and Kunduz - but she says the organisation had to limit the risks faced by its staff, after seven of them were killed in militant attacks this year.
Also, 'Nudge' economist Richard Thaler wins Nobel Prize, Theresa May to brief UK Parliament on Brexit and six black rhinos to move from South Africa to Chad.

(Photo: Patients are evacuated from a Red Cross hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, on 11 September 2017, after a physiotherapist was shot dead. Credit: European Photopress Agency)