Storm Harvey: Houston battles 'unprecedented' floods
The US city of Houston is in the grip of the biggest storm in the history of the state of Texas, officials say.
A record 30in of rain (75cm) has fallen on the city in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, turning roads into rivers.
The area is expected to have received a year's rainfall within a week. Five people are reported dead. Helicopters have plucked victims from rooftops.
With rescue services overstretched as the rain continues, many people are having to fend for themselves.
Harvey made landfall as a category-four hurricane late on Friday. It was later downgraded to a tropical storm.
Aung Sang Suu Kyi's office accuses aid workers of helping 'terrorists' in Myanmar
Human rights groups say Suu Kyi must stop ‘profoundly irresponsible’ accusations which could prove deadly amid violence in Rakhine state
Aung San Suu Kyi’s office has accused international aid workers of helping “terrorists”, a claim that has prompted fears for their safety and been condemned as dangerously irresponsible.
The state counsellor office said it had learned that international aid staff had “participated while extremist terrorists besieged” a village in Rakhine state, adding it would investigate the claims.
The office, headed by Suu Kyi who is the country’s de facto leader, also posted a photo of United Nations world food programme biscuits which it said were found on 30 July “at the camp where terrorists sheltered”.
Charlotte OBERTI , correspondent in New York
Hamburg's G20 trials open up political can of worms
The first G20-related trials against protesters detained during the summit are set to get underway this week. As Rob Mudge reports, the cases in question are courting a great deal of controversy.
Bringing the G20 summit to Hamburg this June was Chancellor Angela Merkel's idea of presenting the city as the "gateway to the world" - a special welcome to world leaders. Instead the violent events that transpired left the city bidding visitors "welcome to hell" - the motto of one of the protests organized by one of the autonomous, anti-capitalist alliances
Now, the first trials against suspected participants are set to get underway at Hamburg's regional court.
Stanislav B, a 24-year-old art student from Poland, was stopped and checked by police outside Hamburg Dammtor train station. In his backpack police discovered a number of firecrackers and a canister that could - potentially - have been used as a teargas cylinder.
Doctors in the dock as US tackles national opioid crisis
Charlotte OBERTI , correspondent in New York
In the United States, opioid addiction has become a national health emergency. Now the doctors accused of over-prescribing the dangerous painkillers are being brought to justice. FRANCE 24 takes a closer look.
“You are, in my opinion, the worst sort of drug dealer,” West Virginia federal court Judge Irene C. Berger told a defendant at his sentencing hearing on Wednesday. “You poured thousands of prescription opiates into the streets, to people you knew weren’t taking them as prescribed.”
Dr. Michael Kostenko was handed a 20-year sentence for prescribing oxycodone to patients whose health issues did not warrant the powerful painkiller, derived from opium and known to create strong physical and psychological addiction. The prescriptions led to the overdose deaths of two of his patients.
The exploitation in Pakistan's music industry is really appalling: Zeb Bangash
Zeb was expected to be part of Coke Studio 10, but we see her in Pepsi Battle of the Bands instead. She tells us why
Zeb Bangash has played a vital part in popularising Coke Studio, with tracks like 'Paimona Bitte', 'Chup' and 'Rona Chor Diya' - performed with her cousin Haniya as Zeb & Haniya - serving as some of the music show's earliest massive hits.
It wasn't surprising then to hear word of her impending debut as composer on Coke Studio 10. Yet, for reasons unclear, Zeb is absent from the ongoing season. Instead, she joins Meesha Shafi, Atif Aslam and Fawad Khan this year at Pepsi’s Battle of the Bands as a guest musician.
In conversation with Images, the acclaimed singer-songwriter dishes on why she'd had to jump ship. Read on:
As the caliphate crumbles, Taliban steals ISIS' tactics to target women
Updated 0728 GMT (1528 HKT) August 28, 2017
A glossy women's magazine has hit virtual newsstands, its front cover splashed with the image of a woman, veiled from head to toe, walking off into a yellow-hued desert.
But, unlike other fashion or beauty publications, this one has a niche audience in mind: would-be female jihadists.
The English-language magazine -- which debuted online but in a print-style format -- was published by the Pakistani Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), earlier this month without much fanfare.
The first edition of Sunnat E Khaula, which harks back to a seventh-century female Muslim warrior named Khaula, calls on "like-minded jihadi sisters" to organize "secret gatherings at home," arrange "physical training classes" and "prepare for martyrdom operations."
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