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The index which ranks countries according to the perceived level of public sector corruption is based on a scoring system that ranges between 0 (public sector perceived as highly corrupt) to 100 (public sector perceived as very clean).

Migrants, mainly from Syria, walk on a highway near Rodby, Denmark on September 7, 2015.

Sweden’s Interior Minister said the country could deport up to 80,000 asylum-seekers.

He died three weeks after drinking green tea laced with a rare and very potent radioactive isotope, polonium-210, at London’s Millennium Hotel.

The government has asked the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) to help identify “exceptional cases” of children from conflict zones whose “needs can not be met in the region and whose best interests would be met through protection in the U.K”.

Security forces confronted both attackers as they headed toward the Imam Ridha mosque in the town of Mahasen, in eastern Saudi Arabia’s al-Ahsa region in Eastern Province, where worshippers were holding Friday prayers, the press agency reported.

Rauner pledged to work with Senate President John Cullerton, a Democrat from Chicago, to increase state support for education by focusing additional resources on low-income and rural schools without taking money away from other districts.

Kazakhstan past year scored 28 points, moving from 126th in 2014 to 123th place in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index. A 0 means that a country is perceived as highly corrupt and 100 means it is perceived as very clean.

Sri Lanka’s neighbor, India improved in ranking in 2015 to place at the 76th place despite with the same score of 38 as in 2014.

Not long before, his administration announced new sanctions against Iran – this time on 11 people and entities involved in the country’s ballistic missile program.

Mumbai: A 30-feet-long whale washed up at the Juhu beach in Mumbai on Thursday night. Experts say the whale, weighing around four tonnes, had died at sea.

“That’s in addition to increasing awareness of the 211 action line, which will quickly connect residents with the assistance they need”, Murray said.

India has moved up nine spots on the Corruption Perceptions Index in 2015 to 76, from 85 in 2014, according to a new report by Transparency International. Brazil saw the biggest drop on the index, falling 5 points and 7 positions to a rank of 76th.

The third suicide bomber, who was targeting a military checkpoint near Wumtaku Street, did not record much success because only a soldier was injured there.

Warmbier was in North Korea for a five-day New Year’s trip and was detained at Pyongyang airport on January 2, four days before the nuclear test, the Reuters news agency reported, citing an official at Young Pioneer Tours.