It hit a low in the 1970s, after Congress wrested authority away following Richard Nixon's Watergate abuses

Last year, the approximately 500 agents in the Big Bend sector detained 1,624 people

Gunman used weapons stolen from the military arsenal to unleash carnage in the town centre

In December, Taliban infiltrators in the Afghan military killed nine Afghan soldiers in central Afghanistan

Epidemic has prompted the government to lock down whole cities as anger mounts over its handling of the crisis

More than 800 dead in China, 37,000 infected

Home side were dismissed for 445 in response to Bangladesh's 233 in first innings

Casualties yet to be ascertained in ‘green-on-blue’ attack -- in which Afghan security forces target foreign soldiers

Average of nine exit polls show Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party is likely to win 52 out of 70 seats

Conflict has killed more than 380,000 people since it broke out in 2011