| |
| |
| California’s biggest wildfire on record raged as hot and windy conditions challenged thousands of fire crews battling eight major blazes burning out of control across the state. |
| |
| The world is at risk of entering “hothouse” conditions where global average temperatures will be 4-5 degrees Celsius higher even if emissions reduction targets under a global climate deal are met, scientists said in a study. |
| |
| |
| |
| The death toll from a powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok topped 100 as rescuers found victims under wrecked buildings, while thousands left homeless in the worst-affected areas waited for aid to arrive. |
| |
| A Japanese medical school deliberately cut women’s entrance test scores for at least a decade, an investigation panel said, calling it a “very serious” instance of discrimination, but school officials denied having known of the manipulations. |
| |
| Commentary: If you want to know why Trump shouldn’t expect to win his trade crusade against China, look no further than Alibaba, the country’s giant e-commerce version of Amazon, writes David A. Andelman, a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times and CBS News and visiting scholar at Fordham University's Center on National Security. While the U.S. president seems to think that the U.S. can stand the pain of tariffs longer than China, "that reflects little understanding of either the Chinese mindset or the underlying strength of the Chinese economy."
|
| |
| |
| In England's forgotten 'rust belt', voters show little sign Brexit regret https://reut.rs/2OMEmOx 5:20 AM - AUG 7, 2018 |
