India train crash: Scores killed in derailment near Kanpur
At least 96 people have been killed after 14 carriages of an Indian express train derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh state, police say.
The incident took place on the Indore-Patna Express just after 03:00 local time on Sunday (21:30 GMT Saturday) near the city of Kanpur.
Rescuers cut their way through the twisted carriages to retrieve bodies and rescue the injured.
More than 150 people have been reported injured.
It was not immediately clear what caused the coaches to derail near the village of Pukhrayan.
Krishna Keshav, who was travelling on the train, told the BBC: "We woke with a jolt at around 3am. Several coaches were derailed, everybody was in shock. I saw several bodies and injured people."
Boko Haram’s forgotten victims return to a humanitarian disaster
Three million people fled their villages during northern Nigeria’s insurgency. Two years later, they are going back
The men with the guns arrived in Moda early on a Sunday morning. There were only a dozen of them, but they were enough to send the villagers fleeing for their lives. Now, two years later, most of those who fled have come back, to find their homes destroyed, their livestock gone and their fields ruined.
They are among the more than three million people in north-east Nigeria who were displaced in what has become one of the world’s worst – and least reported – humanitarian disasters. The UN has warned that up to 75,000 children could die within the next 12 months unless more help arrives urgently.
The villagers are the invisible victims of a jihadist insurgency by Boko Haram, the same Islamic extremist group that in April 2014 abducted more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, 100 kilometres west of here.
Donald Trump’s dangerous team of crackpots will spread corruption and start new wars in the Middle East
Foreign policy advisor John Bolton proposes carving out a Sunni state in northern Iraq and eastern Syria. As a recipe for deepening the conflict in the region, it could scarcely be bettered
Abu Omar Khorasani, an Isis leader in Afghanistan, is quoted as saying that “our leaders were closely following the US election, but it was unexpected that the Americans would dig their own graves.” He added that what he termed Trump’s “hatred” towards Muslims would enable Isis to recruit thousands of fighters.
The Isis calculation is that, as happened after 9/11, the demonisation and collective punishment of Muslims will propel a proportion of the Islamic community into its ranks. Given that there are 1.6 billion Muslims – about 23 per cent of the world’s population – Isis and al-Qaeda-type organisations need to win the loyalty of only a small proportion of the Islamic community to remain a powerful force.
Where Species Are Going Extinct
Many of Earth's flora and fauna are threatened with extinction. That much you already know. But do you also know where our forests are disappearing and which countries are trying to save them? Find out more by taking our quiz.
The wood we use to build our homes, the honey produced by bees, the willow trees that provide us with the source of aspirin -- these are just a few examples of how we rely on our planet's flora and fauna. But we are destroying their habitats. Forests are being decimated to make way for dam projects or farmland, forcing the animals living there to retreat to ever smaller areas.
At the same time, people are only exploiting a fraction of nature's potential. Of the 80,000 species of trees that have been identified, only 800 have been studied for their potential benefits to humans. Many are likely to become extinct before we get the chance to research them thoroughly.
After setbacks, Haiti votes for new leader
Latest update : 2016-11-20Voters will have their say Sunday in a repeatedly derailed presidential election that leaders hope will get Haiti’s shaky democracy on a sturdier track.
The Caribbean nation’s roughly 6 million registered voters don’t lack for choice: 27 presidential candidates are on the ballot. The top two finishers will meet in a Jan. 29 runoff unless one candidate in the crowded field somehow manages to win a majority of the votes.
No results are scheduled to be released for eight days, but electoral council director Uder Antoine has said it might take longer.
The balloting will also complete Parliament as voters pick a third of the Senate and the 25 remaining members of the Chamber of Deputies.
The first time she lost him, he was a newborn. Soon after she gave birth in her native Pakistan, her in-laws took her son, Naseem, during a contentious divorce from her husband. Her own parents then sent her to the United States, to begin a new life.
The second time she lost Naseem, he was a young man who had moved to the United States and reunited with her. But she began to suspect that Naseem could not be trusted, and after a few months, he left her home in the Midwest and drifted to the West Coast.
He would not disappear from her life, however.
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