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Caribbean faces fresh devastation as Hurricane Maria hits islands
Ambitious 1.5C Paris climate target is still possible, new analysis shows
Spain expels North Korea ambassador amid growing nuclear threat
Indian PM inaugurates Sardar Sarovar dam in face of activist anger
Boris Johnson calls for greater cooperation in wake of Hurricane Irma
France tells Trump that quitting Iran nuclear deal risks 'spiral of proliferation'
Baton Rouge shootings: 'Person of interest' released from jail after drug arrest
Donald Trump considering military parade for Fourth of July
German police hunt man who filmed dying biker instead of helping
Vladimir Putin watches display of Russian firepower near EU border
Ana Carrasco becomes first woman to win solo championship motorcycle race
Soviet officer who averted cold war nuclear disaster dies aged 77
Outrage as Mexican student killed after using ride-hailing service
Rolling Stone, rock'n'roll magazine turned liberal cheerleader, up for sale
Women of childbearing age around world suffering toxic levels of mercury
Irish man acquitted four years after Cairo protest arrest
Airbus launches internal corruption investigation after Guardian exposé
Hurricane Maria: 'we have lost all' says Dominica prime minister – live
'Proud to be Mexican': Meet the baby whose huge image gazes over the border
Major acid leak creates vapour cloud over Hull
Portugal's biggest wildfire: 'We all thought we were going to die' – video
Trump to UN: confront North Korea and Iran or risk being 'bystanders in history'
Rwanda’s genocide – Tutsis are not to blame | Letters
In search of the American man: why I hitchhiked across the Rust Belt
'Faustian bargain': defence fears over Australian university's $100m China partnership
Coalition to oppose marriage equality at next election if no vote wins
Guadeloupe and Dominica battered by Hurricane Maria – video report
Are you affected by Hurricane Maria?
Aung San Suu Kyi breaks silence on Rohingya crisis: 'Myanmar does not fear scrutiny'
Aung San Suu Kyi breaks her silence on the Myanmar Rohingya crisis – video
Tuesday briefing: Trump to issue 'axis of evil'-style warning to UN
Myanmar: satellite imagery confirms Rohingya village of Tula Toli razed
New Zealand's general election: all you need to know
Dominica's prime minister charts 'merciless' Hurricane Maria on social media
Trump plans 4 July military parade after watching Bastille Day march past – video
Latest figures reveal more than 40 million people are living in slavery
Aid alone won't stop refugees fleeing to Europe's shores from the Sahel | Tony Blair
'Girls aren't less than boys': Kabul's female veterinarians hope to cure inequality | Fran McElhone
Hillary Clinton on Trump, Putin: 'I ran against both of them' – video
Donald Trump calls for reform of 'outdated' United Nations – video
St Louis protests continue for third day – video
'I'll be here until I die': Florida Keys residents on life after Hurricane Irma
Goddess Durga and Cox's Bazar: today's best photographs

Caribbean faces fresh devastation as Hurricane Maria hits islands

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 05:07 PM PDT

Hurricane Maria – live updates
Hurricane set to hit eastern islands still struggling after Irma

The Caribbean island of Dominica has been "brutalised and devastated" by category 5 Hurricane Maria, the prime minister of the country has said.

The eyewall of the hurricane barrelled into Dominica's eastern coast on Monday evening, crossing towards the former British colony's capital, Roseau, on the south-west side.

Ambitious 1.5C Paris climate target is still possible, new analysis shows

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 08:00 AM PDT

Goal to limit warming to 1.5C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change was seen as unreachable, but updated research suggests it could be met if strong action is taken

The highly ambitious aim of limiting global warming to less than 1.5C remains in reach, a new scientific analysis shows.

The 1.5C target was set as an aspiration by the global Paris climate change deal in 2015 to limit the damage wreaked by extreme weather and sea level rise.

Spain expels North Korea ambassador amid growing nuclear threat

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 12:36 PM PDT

Spanish foreign ministry tells ambassador to leave the country before the end of the month, as North Korea repeatedly refuses to halt its nuclear program

The Spanish foreign ministry has asked North Korea's ambassador to leave Spain before the end of the month due to his country's repeated refusals to renounce its nuclear weapons program.

Indian PM inaugurates Sardar Sarovar dam in face of activist anger

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 08:41 AM PDT

Narendra Modi hits out at 'misinformation campaign' as environmentalists warn that 40,000 families' homes are at risk

A mega-dam that became one of India's greatest environmental controversies during the three decades it was under construction has been formally declared complete by the prime minister, Narendra Modi.

Activists have warned that 40,000 families across hundreds of villages will lose their homes as a result of the construction of the final stage of the dam and are yet to be adequately compensated.

Boris Johnson calls for greater cooperation in wake of Hurricane Irma

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 02:56 PM PDT

British foreign secretary used marginal meeting at UN general assembly to highlight need for 'smoother' responses to horrific weather events

The Caribbean-wide response to Hurricane Irma has been piecemeal and there needs to be a new permanent level of coordination, including better international early warning weather systems, Boris Johnson has said.

The British foreign secretary was speaking at a meeting on the margins of the United Nations general assembly convened by the UK and bringing together British ministers, the French foreign minister Jean-Yves le Drian, the Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders and leaders from the Caribbean.

France tells Trump that quitting Iran nuclear deal risks 'spiral of proliferation'

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 10:18 AM PDT

Foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says pact is being 'strictly implemented'
Donald Trump praises 'fantastic' secretary general's UN reform agenda

The French government will use meetings at the UN this week to try to persuade Donald Trump not to abandon the nuclear agreement with Iran, warning that the deal's collapse would trigger a "spiral of proliferation" in the Middle East, the French foreign minister said.

Jean-Yves Le Drian said that Iran was abiding by the terms of the 2015 deal, and that verification measures were being "strictly implemented" by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Donald Trump, however, has claimed that Tehran has violated the deal, at least "in spirit" and has threatened he would not certify Iranian compliance when the state department is required to report on its implementation on 15 October.

Baton Rouge shootings: 'Person of interest' released from jail after drug arrest

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 12:23 PM PDT

Police say Kenneth Gleason, a white 23-year-old, 'has not been cleared' after shootings of two black men officers say may have been racially motivated

A 23-year-old white man whom police called a "person of interest" in the fatal shootings of two black men in Baton Rouge has been released from jail after his arrest on drug charges over the weekend.

Sgt Don Coppola, a Baton Rouge police department spokesman, said on Monday that Kenneth Gleason "has not been cleared" and remains a "person of interest" in the shootings. A homicide detective's report described Gleason as a "suspect" in the case.

Donald Trump considering military parade for Fourth of July

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 08:26 PM PDT

President impressed by Bastille Day parade he witnessed in Paris
White House chief of staff told to look into display of US military might

Donald Trump is considering staging a US military parade in Washington on the Fourth of July Independence Day holiday, inspired by the parade he saw on Bastille Day in Paris.

Meeting France's President Emmanuel Macron on the fringes of the UN general assembly, Trump said he had asked his White House chief of staff, retired Marine Corps general John Kelly, to look into the possibility of holding such a display of US military might.

German police hunt man who filmed dying biker instead of helping

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 08:39 AM PDT

Ambulance crew say cyclist impeded them after they arrived to treat 29-year-old who had crashed his motorbike into a lamp post

German police are searching for a cyclist who filmed a dying man after a road accident instead of going to his aid.

Police say the cyclist could be prosecuted for failing to assist the 29-year-old who had crashed his motorbike into a lamp post. He was later pronounced dead at the scene of the accident in Heidenheim near Ulm in southern Germany.

Vladimir Putin watches display of Russian firepower near EU border

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 09:27 AM PDT

Russian president observes as Zapad military exercise moves into counterattack stage

A large-scale Russian military exercise that has spooked western countries has entered its final phase, with helicopters, fighter jets, missiles and tanks employed at a firing range close to Russia's border with the EU.

Vladimir Putin was among those watching the 45-minute display of firepower on a cold and rainy Monday afternoon at the Luga firing range, about 70 miles (113km) from the border with EU member state Estonia. The Russian president, joined by the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, and a number of army generals, watched through binoculars from a viewing platform.

Ana Carrasco becomes first woman to win solo championship motorcycle race

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 10:00 AM PDT

Carrasco, 20, rides to dramatic maiden victory on Sunday in Portugal
Spaniard debuted in international competition as a teenager in 2013

Ana Carrasco became the first woman to win an individual world championship motorcycle race on Sunday in Portugal.

The 20-year-old Spaniard, riding a Kawasaki Ninja 300, found a draft on the final stretch to overtake Yamaha riders Alfonoso Coppola (by 0.053sec) and Marc García (0.062) in round 10 of the FIM Supersport 300 World Championship.

Soviet officer who averted cold war nuclear disaster dies aged 77

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 08:24 AM PDT

'Gut instinct' told Lt Col Stanislav Petrov that apparent launch of US missiles was actually early warning system malfunction

A Soviet officer whose cool head and quick thinking saved the world from nuclear war has died aged 77.

Stanislav Petrov was on duty in a secret command centre outside Moscow on 26 September 1983 when a radar screen showed that five Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles had been launched by the US towards the Soviet Union.

Outrage as Mexican student killed after using ride-hailing service

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 09:03 AM PDT

Cabify driver held over murder of Mara Fernanda Castilla, 19
Protests accuse government of failing to tackle spate of femicides

The murder of a Mexican university student after she used a ride-hailing service has sparked outrage and prompted street protests by activists who say that the country's authorities have done little or nothing to prevent a litany of femicides.

Mara Fernanda Castilla, 19, was found dead on Friday, according to the Puebla state governor, Tony Gali. Her body had been abandoned in a ditch some 90 kilometres south-east of Mexico City.

Rolling Stone, rock'n'roll magazine turned liberal cheerleader, up for sale

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 08:22 AM PDT

After almost 50 years of seminal covers and epoch-shifting articles, owners seek buyer with 'lots of money'

It is the magazine that described investment bank Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity", George W Bush as the "worst president in history" and featured a photo of a naked John Lennon curled around Yoko Ono on its front page.

But after almost 50 years of seminal covers and epoch-shifting articles, the owners of Rolling Stone have put the title up for sale amid financial difficulties.

Women of childbearing age around world suffering toxic levels of mercury

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 03:53 AM PDT

Study finds excessive levels of the metal, which can seriously harm unborn children, in women from Alaska to Indonesia, due to gold mining, industrial pollution and fish-rich diets

Women of childbearing age from around the world have been found to have high levels of mercury, a potent neurotoxin which can seriously harm unborn children.

The new study, the largest to date, covered 25 of the countries with the highest risk and found excessive levels of the toxic metal in women from Alaska to Chile and Indonesia to Kenya. Women in the Pacific islands were the most pervasively contaminated. This results from their reliance on eating fish, which concentrate the mercury pollution found across the world's oceans and much of which originates from coal burning.

Irish man acquitted four years after Cairo protest arrest

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 07:59 AM PDT

Ibrahim Halawa was detained in August 2013 during a family holiday in Egypt and was accused of crimes including murder

An Irish citizen arrested while protesting in Cairo has been freed after four years in detention.

Ibrahim Halawa, from Dublin, was acquitted of charges including murder, arson and illegal possession of weapons at a mass trial in Wadi al-Natrun court outside the Egyptian capital on Monday.

Airbus launches internal corruption investigation after Guardian exposé

Posted: 17 Sep 2017 09:42 PM PDT

Exclusive: Already facing bribery allegations, group looks into transactions that led to unexplained €16m payment

Airbus, Europe's largest aerospace multinational, has launched an internal investigation into possible corruption after the Guardian uncovered a series of questionable financial transactions resulting in an unexplained payment.

Hundreds of pages of leaked bank records, internal memos and financial statements reveal that two companies secretly controlled by the aviation giant engaged in transactions involving €19m (£16.7m), a large part of which was then routed to a mysterious company via a tax haven.

Hurricane Maria: 'we have lost all' says Dominica prime minister – live

Posted: 19 Sep 2017 02:29 AM PDT

Category 5 hurricane pummels Caribbean and heads to Irma-struck Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico

10.29am BST

As predicted Maria has picked up intensity to become a category 5 hurricane again after briefly dipping to category 4.

In its latest update the the US National Hurricane Center said:

Recent reports from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that Maria has reintensified to category 5 status, with estimated maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (260 km/h).

10.02am BST

Puerto Rico's governor, Ricardo Rosselló, has warned that Maria will have a much greater impact on the island than Hurricane Irma.

"It will essentially devastate most of the island," he warned on USA Today. He added: "It will provoke massive flooding in flooding prone regions ... our priority is to save lives."

Puerto Rico Gov. @RicardoRossello on Hurricane Maria preparations https://t.co/ByCYyqmMfa pic.twitter.com/HRSREgO40m

Latest update on Hurricane Maria to our English speaking citizens. #MariaPR pic.twitter.com/WkYojzB58H

'Proud to be Mexican': Meet the baby whose huge image gazes over the border

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT

The art installation emerged last week near Tecate, highlighting controversy over Trump's proposed wall – but Kikito's family would rather stay in Mexico

The toddler seems to grip the top of the steel fence as he peers into America, his attention focused on something north of the border.

The expression is playful but his scale – 65ft – dwarfs the fence, making it look puny and eminently climbable.

Major acid leak creates vapour cloud over Hull

Posted: 19 Sep 2017 01:53 AM PDT

Residents asked to close doors and windows after cloud forms from leak of hydrochloric acid at east Hull dock

People living in Hull have been asked to close their doors and windows after a major acid leak caused a vapour cloud to form over a dock in the east of the city.

Humberside fire and rescue said 50 firefighters were called to a "major acid leak" in a tank containing 580 tonnes of hydrochloric acid at the King George dock, near the river Hull, late on Monday.

Portugal's biggest wildfire: 'We all thought we were going to die' – video

Posted: 19 Sep 2017 12:00 AM PDT

On 17 June, a fire swept through the forests of central Portugal, killing 64 people and destroying more than 480 houses. After a summer of record numbers of wildfires across southern Europe, the Guardian travelled to devastated villages in Portugal to find out why the June fire was so deadly, and what can be done to prevent it happening again

Trump to UN: confront North Korea and Iran or risk being 'bystanders in history'

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 06:00 PM PDT

In a speech likely to draw comparisons with George W Bush's 'axis of evil', the president will tell nations they must confront the twin threat to global security

Donald Trump will use his first address to the UN general assembly on Tuesday to call for international action to confront North Korea and Iran, which he will portray as twin threats to global security, the White House said.

The US president will warn member states that they risk being "bystanders in history" if they do not mobilise to confront such threats, according to a senior White House official.

Rwanda’s genocide – Tutsis are not to blame | Letters

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 10:47 AM PDT

There's no evidence to prove the Rwandan Patriotic Front killed the president, writes Linda Melvern; and James Smith adds that blaming victim groups for atrocities inflicted on them is inaccurate and dangerous

Helen C Epstein claims "evidence" to prove the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) assassinated President Juvénal Habyarimana (America's hidden role in the Rwandan genocide, 12 September). But this claim is unsupported and ignores witness testimony. That night, a Belgian doctor, Dr Massimo Pasuch, at home in the Rwandan army-controlled Camp Kanombe, was close enough to the missile launch to hear its telltale "whoosh".

Epstein claims the missiles were fired four miles away at Masaka Hill. The weapon, she claims, was a Russian-made Sam-16 because "two SA-16 single-use launchers" were found near Masaka Hill, a place more "accessible" to the RPF than Camp Kanombe. She relies on French investigative magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguière, whose inquiry claimed serial numbers on the Masaka launchers were from a consignment shipped from Russia to Uganda. But her information about the launchers comes from unreliable sources – convicted génocidaires Bruguière interviewed in prison.

In search of the American man: why I hitchhiked across the Rust Belt

Posted: 19 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT

The state of American masculinity is in flux as blue-collar jobs vanish. Drew Philp travels the midwest and Appalachia to find out what that looks like

We had been waiting for hours on the side of the road, thumbs in the air, when a woman in a modest blue car finally stopped. She rolled the passenger window down. "I'm going about 20 minutes south," she said.

"Is there a truck stop there?"

'Faustian bargain': defence fears over Australian university's $100m China partnership

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 11:22 PM PDT

University of New South Wales says it has conducted due diligence and concerns about research being used for military purposes are drawing 'a very long bow'

A world-first collaboration between the University of New South Wales and the Chinese government, celebrated as a $100m innovation partnership, opens a Pandora's box of strategic and commercial risks for Australia, according to leading analysts.

These include the potential loss of sensitive technology with military capability, an unhealthy reliance on Chinese capital and vulnerability to Beijing's influence in Australia's stretched research and technology sector.

Coalition to oppose marriage equality at next election if no vote wins

Posted: 19 Sep 2017 01:19 AM PDT

Turnbull says: 'If the people have spoken against it, we won't be proposing it at the election,' as poll shows no vote strengthening

The Coalition will oppose marriage equality going into the next election if the same-sex marriage postal survey returns a no vote, Malcolm Turnbull has said.

Turnbull told 4BC Radio on Tuesday that if the survey returned a yes vote, a private member's bill "along the lines" of the attorney general's draft or Senator Dean Smith's bill would be brought to parliament and amendments for further religious protections could be debated then.

Guadeloupe and Dominica battered by Hurricane Maria – video report

Posted: 19 Sep 2017 02:27 AM PDT

Hurricane Maria, a category four hurricane, has made landfall in Dominica and battered nearby Martinique and Guadeloupe. The Caribbean is still recovering after Hurricane Irma destroyed areas of Barbuda and the British and US Virgin Islands. Maria is set to reach Puerto Rico and St Kitts & Nevis

Are you affected by Hurricane Maria?

Posted: 19 Sep 2017 01:05 AM PDT

A category five hurricane is battering the Caribbean. If you're in the region, you can share your experiences with us

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The Caribbean island of Dominica has been hit by category 5 Hurricane Maria, with fears it could produce a dangerous storm surge and large waves.

The eyewall of the hurricane barrelled into Dominica's eastern coast on Monday evening, crossing towards the former British colony's capital, Roseau, on the south-west side.

Aung San Suu Kyi breaks silence on Rohingya crisis: 'Myanmar does not fear scrutiny'

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 10:44 PM PDT

Leader and her government 'burying their heads in the sand over the horrors unfolding in Rakhine', says Amnesty

Aung San Suu Kyi has broken her silence on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, saying she does not "fear international scrutiny" and the government was still assessing allegations of atrocities.

In her first public address since a bloody army crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has been branded "ethnic cleansing" by the United Nations, the Nobel laureate stressed the short time her government had been in power.

Aung San Suu Kyi breaks her silence on the Myanmar Rohingya crisis – video

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 10:43 PM PDT

The leader of Myanmar has broken her silence on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, saying she does not "fear international scrutiny" and that the government was still assessing allegations of atrocities

Aung San Suu Kyi breaks silence on Rohingya crisis: 'Myanmar does not fear scrutiny'

Tuesday briefing: Trump to issue 'axis of evil'-style warning to UN

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 10:29 PM PDT

President will urge nations to confront Iran and North Korea … Caribbean battered again as Hurricane Maria hits … Britain's debt timebomb

Good morning and welcome to the Guardian morning briefing. I'm Martin Farrer and these are the top stories this Tuesday morning.

Myanmar: satellite imagery confirms Rohingya village of Tula Toli razed

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 10:19 PM PDT

Exclusive: Photographs of burned houses corroborates Guardian report on destruction of homes by the army

New satellite images taken above the Myanmar village of Tula Toli have revealed the charred remains of the settlement, confirming a Guardian report earlier this month that detailed its demolition based on eyewitness accounts.

More than a dozen Rohingya from Tula Toli described a blood-soaked operation by Myanmar's armed forces on 30 August that killed scores of civilians, emptied the village and set their wood-built homes ablaze.

New Zealand's general election: all you need to know

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 09:28 PM PDT

Vote on 23 September will decide if the nation breaks with the conservative National party and opts for Labour's untested but energetic Jacinda Ardern

The New Zealand general election is only days away and anticipation is building in the south Pacific nation where, for the first time in a decade, the outcome of the vote is genuinely up for grabs.

Dominica's prime minister charts 'merciless' Hurricane Maria on social media

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 09:27 PM PDT

Roosevelt Skerrit relayed the destruction of his home to followers on Facebook as storm lays waste to Caribbean island

The prime minister of Dominica has used Facebook to describe in harrowing detail – and in real time – his own rescue from the destruction of Hurricane Maria.

The category five storm passed directly over the island nation of Dominica on Monday night local time. Amid gusts of wind up to 260kmh (160mph) the country's long-serving leader, Roosevelt Skerrit, rode out the storm from his home.

Trump plans 4 July military parade after watching Bastille Day march past – video

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 07:26 PM PDT

The US president is considering having a military parade in Washington on independence day – potentially as soon as next year – after being impressed by a show of strength by the French armed forces while in Paris on Bastille Day

Latest figures reveal more than 40 million people are living in slavery

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 11:00 PM PDT

Forced marriage is included for first time in worldwide statistics that show 'money and debt' to be at the heart of the exploitation

An estimated 40.3 million people were victims of modern slavery in 2016, a quarter of them children, according to new global slavery statistics released today.

The figures, from the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Walk Free Foundation, show 24.9 million people across the world were trapped in forced labour and 15.4 million in forced marriage last year. Children account for 10 million of the overall 40.3m total.

Aid alone won't stop refugees fleeing to Europe's shores from the Sahel | Tony Blair

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 06:03 AM PDT

An international alliance must create a plan for the fragile African states of the Sahel to prevent catastrophe in a region already buckling under the strain

Refugees fleeing conflict have already sent shockwaves ‎through the political systems of Europe. But unless we take urgent action now and help the countries of the Sahel, we will face the prospect of millions more refugees in the time to come.

A coordinated and comprehensive plan to partner these nations and help them to avoid catastrophe is essential for them and for us. It should be devised by an alliance between Europe, the US and Arab allies in the Gulf.

'Girls aren't less than boys': Kabul's female veterinarians hope to cure inequality | Fran McElhone

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 04:19 AM PDT

A trio of vets in Afghanistan are braving bomb blasts and discrimination to head up an animal welfare practice and inspire a new generation of women

Unpredictable and indiscriminate bomb blasts don't deter the three women heading up Afghanistan's only large-scale animal shelter and veterinary clinic, in Kabul. Neither do the attitudes of the people who told them they couldn't, or shouldn't, be vets.

Afghanistan is one of the lowest-ranked countries in the world for gender equality. In this strictly patriarchal society, women are still traditionally married off soon after school age and remain housewives for the rest of their lives. They may face imprisonment for running away from home and many are still behind bars for "moral crimes".

Hillary Clinton on Trump, Putin: 'I ran against both of them' – video

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 10:47 PM PDT

Former Democratic presidential candidate says Donald Trump and his administration 'are posing a clear and present danger to the future of our country' at an event prompting her new book, What Happened

Clinton takes on Trump, Putin and misogyny as fans flock to book tour

Donald Trump calls for reform of 'outdated' United Nations – video

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 09:51 AM PDT

Addressing world leaders at the United Nations, Donald Trump urged the UN secretary general, António Guterres, to 'cut through the bureaucracy' and bring reforms to an 'outdated' UN system. He also called on member states to drive reforms that would 'change business as usual'

Trump adviser tells UN the US is not looking to stay in Paris climate deal

St Louis protests continue for third day – video

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 07:39 AM PDT

In protest at the acquittal of a white former police officer over the death of a black man, hundreds of people have taken to the streets of downtown St Louis. Riot police made dozens of arrests throughout the night. Former officer Jason Stockley was found not guilty for the 2011 death of Anthony Lamar Smith

• Police officers chant after breaking up protests

'I'll be here until I die': Florida Keys residents on life after Hurricane Irma

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 06:12 AM PDT

A week on from the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma, Florida Keys residents are finding strength in one another as they try to piece together their homes and make sense of what happened

Goddess Durga and Cox's Bazar: today's best photographs

Posted: 18 Sep 2017 05:30 AM PDT

A selection of images from around the world including Liberal Democrat mugs and Dutch-style cabins on a Chinese island