US West Coast fires: I don't think science knows about climate, says Trump
US President Donald Trump has dismissed concerns over climate change on a visit to fire-ravaged California, telling an official "I don't think science knows" about global warming.
"It'll start getting cooler, you just watch," Mr Trump said after he was urged not to "ignore the science".
Blazes in several states have burned vast areas of land and killed at least 36 people since early August.
World fails to meet a single target to stop destruction of nature – UN report
‘Humanity at a crossroads’ after a decade in which all of the 2010 Aichi goals to protect wildlife and ecosystems have been missed
The world has failed to meet a single target to stem the destruction of wildlife and life-sustaining ecosystems in the last decade, according to a devastating new report from the UN on the state of nature.
From tackling pollution to protecting coral reefs, the international community did not fully achieve any of the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets agreed in Japan in 2010 to slow the loss of the natural world. It is the second consecutive decade that governments have failed to meet targets.
Putin critic Navalny shares first photo after suspected novichock poisoning
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny shared a photograph from a Berlin hospital on Tuesday, sitting up in bed and surrounded by his family, and said he could now breathe independently following his suspected poisoning last month.
"Hi, this is Navalny. I miss you all," he wrote in the caption to his Instagram followers. "I can still hardly do anything, but yesterday I could breathe all day on my own. Actually on my own."
New name for New Zealand? Maori party wants change
New Zealand's Maori Party said on Monday that the country should be renamed to better reflect the country's indigenous culture.
Politicians want the nation to be called "Aotearoa". The word means 'the land of white cloud' in the nation's indigenous language, also known as te reo.
Greg Kelly, former aide to Nissan's Ghosn, pleads not guilty as trial starts in Japan
Greg Kelly, a former aide to ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a charge of financial misconduct as the trial against him began in Tokyo.
Ghosn is now at large as an international fugitive after jumping bail and fleeing Japan for Lebanon last year.
That has left Kelly the only person facing trial in the lengthy, rollercoaster saga involving Ghosn.
Kelly entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday to the single charge he faces -- conspiring to under-report tens of millions of dollars in pay that Ghosn was allegedly promised after his retirement.
NIH 'very concerned' about serious side effect in AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial
Updated 1244 GMT (2044 HKT) September 15, 2020
The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was halted when a participant suffered spinal cord damage, even as the National Institutes of Health has launched an investigation of the case.
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