Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in the country’s northern mountains have caused floods that have killed at least 1,391 people, sweeping away homes, roads, railways, bridges, livestock and crops. Vast areas are flooded and hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes. The government says the lives of nearly 33 million people have been disrupted. Pakistan estimates the damage at $30bn (£26bn) and both the government and Guterres have blamed the floods on climate change....

C’est une découverte qui tombe à pic ! Une équipe internationale de chercheurs dirigée par le Québécois Charles Cadieux, étudiant au doctorat à l’Université de Montréal, et son directeur de recherche, l’astrophysicien René Doyon, croient avoir trouvé un monde océanique en orbite autour d’une naine rouge dans un système stellaire binaire relativement proche du Soleil. . Découverte dans la constellation du Draco il y a deux ans grâce au télescope spatial Tess (Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite) de la Nasa, cette exoplanète baptisée TOI-1452b ne serait en effet qu’à une centaine d’années-lumière de nous....

With the nomination period for the municipal elections officially ending on Friday, the mayoral race appears to be already over for 11 municipalities, barring any lockouts. The mayors for the following communities are running unopposed, which means they can probably breathe a little easier once the campaign period begins on Saturday, September 17: OAK BAY – Kevin Murdoch COMOX – Nicole Minions CENTRAL SAANICH – Ryan Windsor DUNCAN – Michelle Staples LADYSMITH – Aaron Stone SIDNEY – Cliff McNeil-Smith TOFINO – Legal Law HIGHLANDS – Ken Williams SAYWARD – Mark Baker ALERT BAY – Dennis Buchanan ZEBALLOS – Julie Colbourne...

World leaders have also been told they cannot use their own state cars to attend the funeral at Westminster Abbey on September 19 — and will instead be bussed en masse from a location in west London. “Can you imagine Joe Biden on the bus?” A London-based foreign ambassador complained via WhatsApp message early Sunday. Official documents obtained by POLITICO also confirm that only heads of state and their spouses or partners from each country have been invited to attend the funeral, which is shaping up to be one of the most important international events the UK has hosted in recent times....

Wallner beim Wandern mit seiner Frau Sonja ©Intagramm Vorarlbergs Landeshauptmann Markus Wallner (ÖVP) könnte bald aus seiner Krankschreibung zurückkehren. Das spekulierten am Freitag die „Vorarlberger Nachrichten“ und die „Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung“. Es gab weder gegenüber den Tageszeitungen noch gegenüber der APA eine Bestätigung des Gouverneursbüros. Der Zeitpunkt seiner Rückkehr – das Gespräch soll nächste Woche stattfinden – sei reine Spekulation, sagte er. Gerüchte über eine baldige Rückkehr Wallners wurden vor allem durch seine Teilnahme an der Herbstsitzung der Vorarlberger ÖVP-Landesräte am vergangenen Montag geschürt....

Ein Rückblick, der auch ein Blick nach vorne ist Das Rezept, immer neue, noch spektakulärere Locations zu finden, mit noch weitläufigeren Räumen, noch mehr Charakteren und einer noch offeneren Welt, ist ebenfalls konstant geblieben. Den Effekt, dass es so viel zu tun gibt, dass man irgendwann gar nicht mehr weiter weiß, kennt man auch aus anderen, ähnlichen Spielen. Aber “Assassin’s Creed” war immer ein Vorreiter und bot genug Raum, um Neues auszuprobieren....

When I first came to Canada from India in 2006, I worked as a cashier and at other entry-level jobs to make ends meet and survive. When my youngest child was born two years later, I stopped working and stayed home to focus on parenting. But I felt confined. My heart craved a wider connection. So, it’s amazing to me now how one day just a simple knock at my door — and a kernel of courage in my heart — set me on a different path....

the Queen has died and King Charles III is the new monarch. Here’s a day-by-day account of what’s expected to happen next, leading up to the Queen’s funeral in around 11 days. Day of the Dead Thursday would traditionally be D-Day or D+0 in plans for the aftermath of the Queen’s death, codenamed London Bridge. But the announcement came late in the day – around 6.30pm. of Thursday 8th September – meaning the plans have been shifted a day to allow the complex arrangements to be put in place, meaning D+0 will be considered a Friday....

Days after the Prince of Wales offered his brother an “olive branch” by inviting him on a walk to meet mourners outside Windsor, there is a suggestion they could put their differences aside during the national mourning. The couple were separated from their cousin Peter Philip at Prince Philip’s funeral last year and have only been seen together in public once before Saturday’s surprise. What shape the Queen’s service truce will take on Monday, September 19, remains to be seen, with reports suggesting Prince Andrew is also set to play a key role despite controversy in recent years....

Estimated reading time: 3-4 minutes SPRING – A recently discovered fossil in southeastern Utah appears to show what kind of prey predators fed on during the age of dinosaurs and when the area wasn’t exactly the desert it is today. Paleontologists in Utah discovered a pile of amphibian bones that they say looked like they were suspended by some kind of predator. This prehistoric vomit is believed to be 150 million years old, according to paleontologists at the Utah Geological Survey, the Utah State Parks Department and the Museum of Flying Heritage & Combat Armor in Washington....

MARIETTA, Ga. – Two Cobb County Sheriff’s deputies were killed in the line of duty Thursday night. The sheriff’s office says they were shot while serving a warrant at a home in the Marietta area. Two people were taken into custody after a nearly four-hour standoff. Cobb County Deputies ‘Ambushed and Killed’ Service Warrants Shortly after 7:45 p.m. on Thursday, Cobb County deputies knocked on the door of a home at the corner of Hampton Glen Court and Fenwick Drive just west of Marietta....

1. Brett Goldstein and Juno Temple (aka Roy and Keeley!) shared a little huddle after Brett’s win for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Ted Lasso: 2. Zendaya and HoYeon Jung posed for an adorable photo and honestly, the beauty here is just too much to look at: 3. Lizzo and Seth Rogen took a selfie: 4. Turns out Lizzo took a bunch of adorable selfies throughout the night, including this one with Zendaya: 5....

The shooting was at least the fourth this year near a CPS school. A few minutes after noon, paramedics were called to 5035 S. East End Ave. to a call that a teenager had been shot multiple times, said CFD spokesman Larry Merritt. “He was DOA,” Merritt said, adding that the teenager was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center. According to Chicago police spokeswoman Officer Michelle Tannehill, the boy, 17, was shot in the head while standing outside....

Angesichts hoher Energiepreise hat Kanzler Scholz deutschen Unternehmen weitere Unterstützung versprochen. Wirtschaftsminister Habeck will die Energiekosten-Zuschüsse zudem auch für Handwerksbetriebe zugänglich machen. Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz hat den Firmen eine Ausweitung der Hilfsmaßnahmen gegen hohe Energiepreise zugesagt. “Wir arbeiten mit Hochdruck daran, die bestehenden Programme auszuweiten”, sagte Scholz auf dem Arbeitgebertag in Berlin. Der Kanzler ermutigte Firmen zudem dazu, ihren Beschäftigten Sonderzahlungen wegen der hohen Energiepreise zu leisten. “Die Bundesregierung hat entschieden, solche zusätzlichen Zahlungen bis zu 3000 Euro von Steuern und Sozialabgaben zu befreien, wenn Arbeitgeber und Gewerkschaften sich darauf verständigen”, sagte er....

Within 24 hours of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, the first cracks were forming in a carefully choreographed Australian response to the death of its head of state. During a televised match between the Australian Women’s Football League (AFLW) teams in Melbourne on Friday, players stood to attention to hear a Pledge of Allegiance followed by a minute’s silence for the Queen. However, controversy over a statement that the players stood on “unallocated” indigenous land was followed by a tribute to the country’s former monarch which he claimed was uncomfortable for some....

Charles and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, were driven from the airport to the royal family’s official residence in Edinburgh, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, where Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin lay overnight in the Throne Room. On their way, they passed large crowds of people huddled behind metal barriers along the Royal Mile, the road between Holyroodhouse and St. Giles. Spectators clapped and waved as the king’s limousine drove by....

En deuil et seul, sa femme Meghan Markle étant restée à Londres pendant que le couple se rendait en Europe pour sécuriser des événements caritatifs, le prince Harry a dû traverser une période compliquée. Toujours froid avec sa famille, il a dû se sentir bien seul dans ce deuil déjà difficile. Heureusement, sur le tarmac de l’aéroport, alors que le père d’Archie et Lilibet rentrait à Londres pour arriver à Windsor, il a pu compter sur le soutien d’un membre du personnel de l’aéroport....

Pour Emmanuel Macron, “ami de la France” Emmanuel Macron a rendu hommage à Elizabeth II, décédée jeudi, la saluant comme une “amie de la France, reine de cœur” qui “a marqué à jamais son pays et son siècle”. « Sa Majesté la reine Elizabeth II incarne la continuité et l’unité de la nation britannique depuis plus de 70 ans. Je garde le souvenir d’une amie de la France, une reine de cœur qui a marqué à jamais son pays et son siècle”, a tweeté le président après avoir publié une photo de la reine, décédée à l’âge de 96 ans au château de Balmoral en Écosse....

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story opened the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival, where hopeful audience members began lining up more than two hours before the midnight screening at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, some in their finest Hawaiian-print shirts and curly wigs. There were also at least two accordions spotted on the line. Weird, which “Weird Al” Yankovic co-wrote with director Eric Appel (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Silicon Valley) and produced, stars Daniel Radcliffe as a subversive version of Yankovic, seen in the trailer shirtless, swilling whiskey in scene and entertaining Madonna (played by Evan Rachel Wood) amid accordion riffs....

„Wir stellen flexible Verpackungen her. Das heißt, wir haben es mit den sogenannten Primärverpackungen zu tun, also den Verpackungen, die in direkten Kontakt mit dem Lebensmittel oder dem Arzneimittel kommen“, erklärt Gerald Hummer, Geschäftsführer von Constantia Teich bei noe.ORF.at. Klassische Beispiele sind Joghurtdeckel, Schokoladen- oder Butterfolie, Kaffeekapseln oder Hunde- oder Katzenfutternäpfe aus Aluminium. ORF Constantia Teich betreibt das größte Aluminiumwalzwerk Österreichs. 70.000 Tonnen Folie werden jährlich gerollt. Aluminium schützt Produkte vor äußeren Einflüssen „Neben der guten Umformbarkeit des Aluminiums sind vor allem die hervorragenden Barriereeigenschaften des Aluminiums ausschlaggebend....