High school students in Hong Kong have gone on strike on the first day of classes after the summer break to show their commitment to the city's anti-government protest movement.
Students in Hong Kong are planning to strike on the first day of classes following the summer holiday.
Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas as a catastrophic Category 5 storm with record 185mph winds ripping off roofs, overturning cars and tearing down power lines.
Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas as a catastrophic category five storm yesterday, its record 295kmh winds ripping off roofs, overturning cars and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered down in schools, churches and shelters.
A trainee pilot in Australia who was having his first lesson behind the controls of an aircraft had to make an emergency landing after his instructor fell unconscious.
A gunman who went on the rampage with a semi-automatic rifle in Texas killed seven people and wounded 22, including a toddler who was shot in the face.
A tentative ceasefire in north-west Syria, the second in a month, threatened to unravel yesterday after the US launched an airstrike to target prominent al-Qa'ida figures.
