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Champions League 2017-18: how will your club do this season?
The Guardian - 4 Sep 2017 12:17
Will anyone get the better of Real Madrid this year? Can Celtic upset Bayern or PSG? And how will Azerbaijani champions Qarabag do? The Champions League group stage is now just over a week away. Just like last year teams...
Trump expected to end 'Dreamers' immigration program
New York Post - 4 Sep 2017 04:10
President Trump will indeed be ending the Obama-era “Dreamers” program, but not for another six months -- giving Congress the chance to act, a report says. Sources told Politico that the White House plans to do away ...
WATCH: Los Angeles area wildfire forces evacuations
ABC News - 4 Sep 2017 04:46
The Los Angeles Fire Department has issued a mandatory evacuation order for residents in Burbank as a raging brush fire threatens their homes.
Myanmar blocks all UN aid to civilians at heart of Rohingya crisis
The Guardian - 4 Sep 2017 04:09
Exclusive: Military offensive against insurgents leaves thousands stranded without life-saving supplies Myanmar has blocked all United Nations aid agencies from delivering vital supplies of food, water and medicine to th...
Man dies after rushing into Burning Man festival flames
ABC News - 4 Sep 2017 05:15
A man rushed past layers of security officers into a massive fire at the Burning Man festival's signature ceremony, sustaining burns that left him dead just hours later.
South Korea-U.S. Partnership Faces Strains as North Korea Raises Threat
The New York Times - 4 Sep 2017 20:38
The uneasy relationship between President Trump and South Korea's leader is testing a seven-decade alliance at a critical time.
Czech climber sets new benchmark with ascent of 'world's hardest cliff'
The Guardian - 4 Sep 2017 17:32
Adam Ondra has completed what is being called the world's hardest single rope-length climb at Flatanger in Norway In the last few years the tiny world of elite rock climbing has fixated on a giant windswept granite cave ...
Caribbean islands brace for Hurricane Irma
New York Post - 4 Sep 2017 17:22
Islands of the northeast Caribbean are bracing for impact as Hurricane Irma churns its way over the Atlantic Ocean. The powerful Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles-per-hour has slightly intensifie...
Current rips baby out of mom's arms in Harvey floodwaters
New York Post - 4 Sep 2017 05:56
Harvey's youngest victim to date is a 6-month-old baby -- who was ripped from her mother's arms after the family got trapped in roaring floodwaters outside Houston. The infant girl was lost in the current Aug. 27 as her ...
Policing facing a 'perfect storm' due to budget cuts and rising crime
BBC - 4 Sep 2017 03:59
A policing model based on fewer people working more days is "flawed", a senior police chief warns.
Japan's Princess Mako announces engagement to commoner
BBC - 4 Sep 2017 03:55
She will lose her royal status, but Princess Mako said she loved Kei Komuro's "smile like the sun".
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley Says North Korea Is 'Begging for War'
Time - 4 Sep 2017 17:37
Tensions are rising after Pyongyang claims to have detonated a hydrogen bomb
Study of Iraq fighters reveals what makes people prepared to die for a cause
The Guardian - 4 Sep 2017 17:27
In research that could help to combat extremists, scientists working on the the frontline in Iraq have begun to unpick what is behind the will to fight When Islamic State (Isis) launched its attack on Mosul in 2014, they...
'I Was Scared to Death.' Nurse Dragged From Hospital and Handcuffed Speaks Out
Time - 4 Sep 2017 17:09
"Any nurse, I think, would have done exactly what I did"
Colombia to sign cease-fire with last guerrilla group
Miami Herald - 4 Sep 2017 17:03
Colombia's government will sign a bilateral cease-fire with the nation's last remaining major rebel group ahead of Pope Francis' visit this week, President Juan Manuel Santos announced Monday. Santos said …
Supermassive black hole discovered near heart of the Milky Way
The Guardian - 4 Sep 2017 17:00
Astronomers find evidence of enormous black hole one hundred thousand times more massive than the sun in a gas cloud near the galaxy's centre An enormous black hole one hundred thousand times more massive than the sun ha...
Egypt finalizes deal with Russia for first nuclear plant
Miami Herald - 4 Sep 2017 16:53
Russian media say Egypt has finalized a deal to build a nuclear power plant with funding from Moscow after nearly two years of negotiations. The reports Monday came after Egypt's …
Haley urges 'strongest possible measures' against North Korea
New York Post - 4 Sep 2017 16:53
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Monday urged the Security Council to impose the “strongest possible measures” against North Korea over its latest nuclear weapons test, saying “enough is enough.�...
Private pilots take key role in bringing supplies to Harvey victims
USA Today - 4 Sep 2017 16:49Syrian troops close to breaking IS siege in eastern city
ABC News - 4 Sep 2017 16:49
Syrian opposition activists and state media say government forces are close to breaking a nearly three-year siege imposed by the Islamic State group on parts of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour
Israel to hold large military drill along Lebanon border
Miami Herald - 4 Sep 2017 16:45
Israel is gearing up to hold its largest military drill in nearly 20 years, a combined arms exercise along its border with Lebanon at a time of rising tensions with …
Obama is reportedly planning a statement against Trump's DACA decision
The Week - 4 Sep 2017 15:58
Former President Obama is expected to weigh in on President Trump's reported decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program (DACA), a change which would make some 800,000 immigrants who we...