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The MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of Hurricane Hilda on August. 8, 2015, when it was east of Hawaii. Hawaii is at the upper left. Hurricane Hilda is forecast to weaken as it approaches Hawaii during the next few days.

At least 50 people have been killed and hundreds wounded in a wave of attacks on the Afghan army, police and U.S. special forces in the Afghan capital Kabul.

No inmates besides David Sweat and the deceased Richard Matt were found to have any connection with the prison break; several prison employees, on the other hand, have been charged, suspended, or fired.

Bland’s death has sparked a conversation among lawmakers in Texas and elsewhere about jail standards and how authorities deal with potentially mentally ill or suicidal inmates.

But, in part because of a concerted effort to help disadvantaged students do better on such tests, scores have risen across all subjects among students across Virginia, which stepped up the difficulty of the exams several years ago, according to the Washington Post.

One of the attackers was killed during the bombing, while two others and a police officer died in a subsequent firefight, the Istanbul governor’s office said.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has left for Lebanon on the first leg of the second round of his regional tours following a nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers.

“I’ve said this before too, they are all my children, I am pure and pious” said the controversial “godwoman”.

The typhoon, expected to land between the cities of Jinjiang and Fuqing this evening, will pose a serious threat to Fujian, the provincial meteorological station said.

We’re just a couple of days away from one of the most remarkable astronomical shows you will see in the southern Colorado sky – the Perseid meteor shower!

“Repeated incursions by Spanish patrols into the waters around Gibraltar are a clear violation of United Kingdom sovereignty”, British Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire told the press on Monday.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Afghan police academy and the U.S. base.

An Afghan store clerk waits for customers at a news stand where local papers carry headlines about the new leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, August 1, 2015.

The board is meeting tomorrow “to accept Wise’s resignation, vote on a $400,000 bonus and name an interim chancellor”.

An inmate at New York City’s Rikers Island jail is the latest patient to be diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, but health officials say the case is not believed to be related to the South Bronx outbreak that has killed 12 people and sickened 115. It’s easily...