On This Day: August 8th

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as Chief Adviser to form an interim government in Bangladesh.

Hawaii wildfires: Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a search warrant at former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida.

An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range in Nyonoksa, Russia, kills five people.

Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.

Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.

A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.

China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.

A Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil and Piper PA-32R collide over the Hudson River, killing nine people.

A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.