Barcelona attack: Royals attend special Mass for victims
King Felipe and Queen Letizia are attending Barcelona's famous Sagrada Familia to mourn the 14 people killed in vehicle attacks in Catalonia.
Police are still hunting the driver of a van that killed 13 at Barcelona's Las Ramblas. A 14th victim died in a second attack at Cambrils.
Ministers say the jihadist cell behind the attacks has been dismantled.
But police are still hunting for the van driver and an imam missing from a mosque in the town of Ripoll.
The special Mass is being celebrated at the iconic, Gaudi-designed Sagrada Familia.
Some reports in Spanish media say the jihadist cell had intended to target the Sagrada Familia with explosives.
Ice and fire: large blaze burns in Greenland for two weeks
Scientists perplexed by wildfire that has been burning since July in grassland just 40 miles from the ice sheet
The wildfire was first spotted by satellites on 31 July and last photographed on 16 August when it was still growing. It was burning about 40 miles from the Greenland ice sheet and about 90 miles northeast of the city of Sisimiut.
Small fires are not unheard of in Greenland during summer but for such a large blaze – this one is estimated to cover 1,200 hectares – to burn for so long is believed to be unusual. Scientists at the University of Technology in Delft in the Netherlands said 2017 was by far the worst year for wildfires in Greenland since records began in 2000.
America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the blaze posed a risk to Greenland’s ice sheet, because falling soot turns the surface of the sheet black, which can make it melt faster.
Sewing Seeds of HateThe Unforgivable Disgrace of an American President
There has never before been a U.S. president who trivialized the violence and racism of neo-Nazis. For many Republicans, Donald Trump has now gone too far. The populist leader has become more isolated than ever before -- in the world and inside his own party.
At the end of a bloody weekend, after one woman had died and several other people had been injured, Christopher Cantwell sat down in a hotel room and said: "I'd say it was worth it." A neo-Nazi who rails against blacks, Jews and immigrants, Cantwell is one of the organizers behind the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville -- and last week, he traveled to Virginia ostensibly to protest the dismantling of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Some of Cantwell's comrades wore steel helmets and homemade shields made of wood or plastic, making them look like an army of second-rate mercenaries.
Cantwell seemed euphoric as he showed a Vice News reporter, on camera, the weapons that he carried with him. An automatic rifle, two pistols in his belt and a third in an ankle holster, and a knife. Oh, and "I actually have another AK in that bag over there," Cantwell says. "You lose track of your fucking guns, huh?"
Iraqi forces begin operation against IS group to reclaim Tal Afar
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced early Sunday the start of a battle to retake Tal Afar, a key Northern Iraqi bastion of the Islamic State (IS) group and one of their last remaining strongholds in the region.
The announcement comes a month after the capture by Iraqi forces of second city Mosul further east in a major blow to the jihadists.
In a televised speech, Abadi, dressed in military uniform and standing in front of an Iraqi flag and map of the country, announced "the start of an operation to free Tal Afar".
"I am saying to Daesh that there's no choice other than to leave or be killed," he said, using an alternative name for IS.
The missing pages of history: 70 years of Pakistan and Dawn
The policies of a powerful state never consented to the unveiling of the truth.
OVER the decades, Dawn has come to be known as ‘the paper of record’. This is not without reason. Although historians seldom regard newspapers as primary source material, since the early years of Pakistan’s creation, extraordinary efforts have been put in by Dawn’s editors to cover as much as possible of national and international events. Before the advent of the internet this newspaper used to regularly publish the text of most landmark court judgements, speeches by leaders and important gazette notifications. This renders its archives a unique and rich research resource.
But to be considered a paper of record, more than news coverage is required. The contextualisation of developments through editorials and analyses is also important. Were Dawn’s editors able to faithfully cover the news and analyse it? Indeed, were they allowed to do this? They certainly strove to do all they could. But I doubt that they were able to record many crucial events in this country’s chequered history.
The tide of unfairness turns in India as women abuse 'shield' law
Amrit Dhillon
For Anshuman Raj, a long-awaited ruling by the Indian Supreme Court has come as sweet vindication that men like him, who have been wrongly accused by their wives, are innocent victims of their abusing India's anti-dowry laws.
His marriage in 2014 to Ritika Taneja lasted only a few months.
"After endless arguments over trivia, over her getting angry because my mother and sister walked ahead of her, she left me and went back to her parents. Later, I find that she has gone to the police to accuse me of demanding more dowry. I never did that and I never would," Raj said.
Sitting in a popular coffee bar in Connaught Place in the centre of the Indian capital, Raj, 30, is tall and balding. He runs his own small printing and packaging company which he has left early today to come and tell his story. The accusation, he said, horrified him.
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