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Forty-seven tigers, three lions and a panther have died in zoos in south Vietnam due to the H5N1 bird flu virus, state media reported. The deaths occurred in August and December at the private My Quynh safari park in Long An province and the Vuon Xoai zoo in Dong Nai, near the capital Ho Chi Minh City, the official Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported on Wednesday. According to test results from the National Centre for Animal Health Diagnosis, the animals died 'because of H5N1 type A virus', VNA said. The zoos refused to comment when contacted by Agence France-Presse. No zoo staff members in close contact with the animals had experienced dangerous symptoms, the VNA report added. Education for Nature Vietnam, an NGO that focuses on wildlife conservation, said there were a total of 385 tigers living in captivity in Vietnam at the end of 2023. About 310 are kept at 16 personally owned farms and zoos, while the rest are in state-owned facilities. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that since 2022, there have been increasing reports of deadly cases among mammals caused by influenza viruses, including H5N1. It also says H5N1 infections can range from mild to severe in humans, and in some cases can even be fatal. Vietnam notified the WHO about a human mortality from the virus in March. In 2004, dozens of tigers died from bird flu or were culled at the world's largest breeding farm in Thailand.

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The Chinese embassy in Pakistan said a convoy carrying Chinese workers of the Port Qasim Electric Power Company had been attacked at around 11pm. It condemned what it said was a 'terrorist attack', and urged a thorough investigation to punish the perpetrators. Videos showed flames destroying cars and a thick column of smoke rising from the scene. There was a heavy military deployment at the site, which was cordoned off. Thousands of Chinese workers are in Pakistan, many of them involved in an 'economic corridor' between the two countries that is a friendship section of Beijing's multibillion-dollar belt and road initiative, which seeks to connect the Chinese capital with south and central Asia and beyond. The BLA seeks individuals for the province of Balochistan, located in Pakistan's south-west and bordering on Afghanistan and Iran. In August, it launched coordinated attacks in the province, in which more than 170 people were killed. The BLA specifically targets Chinese interests, in particular the strategic port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea, accepting Beijing of helping Islamabad exploit the province. It has killed Chinese citizens working in the region and attacked Beijing's consulate in Karachi.

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Rescue teams are searching for survivors after flash floods and landslides hit parts of Bosnia, killing at least 16 people and damaging dozens more. Construction machines worked to remove piles of rocks and debris covering the central town of Jablanica after the rainstorm recently on Friday. Huge volumes of rain fell in the area around Jablanica and nearby Konjic, causing violent flooding that inundated people's homes as they were sleeping. Surging waters also triggered landslides that collapsed roads and hills, covering places in mud and cutting off entire areas. Bosnian media are reporting that rocks from a nearby quarry fell on the village of Donja Jablanica, carrying houses. Alka Gusic, a resident of Donja Jablanica, lost her brother and his entire family while her own son is in hospital. Overnight on Friday, she said, a thundering rumble woke her up from her sleep.

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Sometimes this is the case when you least expect it - not when something bad has happened, but when something extremely good has happened, but you nevertheless feel bad. Such as when you have just moved in with your partner, and instead of the loved-up life you were expecting, you are experiencing a panicked suffocation and intense hatred. Or, when, as I have seen with so many friends, and lived through myself, you have just had a much longed-for baby, and instead of the presumed joy, you are experiencing total exhaustion, periods of desolation, and terribly painful breasts. Or when you have just started university, or a new job, or therapy, or gone on holiday. At the very moment you thought you would be building a better life, instead you feel lost and as if life is falling apart. At moments like these, telling yourself that you should be happy and getting happier, or pretending to yourself that you are, is a kind lie. I know this because it is one I have told myself. It's a kind of gaslighting of yourself, to try to undermine your own instincts and convince yourself that your internal reality is what you want it to be, rather than what it is. The truth is that you feel disappointment, anger and despair. It is a gift to yourself to acknowledge this. This truth, about what we are really feeling, is the most nourishing, important and valuable thing we can offer ourselves, and it is the foundation from which a better life might grow.

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In another remarkable example, on Christmas Eve 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke had the bad circular luck of being on Lansa flight 508 when it was struck by lightning over the Amazon jungle. She was thrown out, still stuck into her seat, and fell 3,000 metres (9,800ft). She had, however, amazing resultant luck when the thick jungle canopy broke her body and she survived, although 90 other people, including her mother, died. And, just like Stephen, Juliane had constitutive luck. Her parents, who were archaeological researchers, had brought her up in the Amazon, and she had the necessary skills not only to look after her wounds, but also to venture for 11 days in the jungle until she found an encampment. In the political arena, leaders feel the need to express complete confidence in the effects of their actions, but if they recognised the major role of chance in what happens, they might try to nurture more resistence to the unexpected. Such humility can also be valuable at a personal level. When attributing reasons for any success they have, people tend to overestimate the role of their efforts and acquired skills, whereas they should mainly be grateful for their constitutive luck.

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Young women are struggling to rise above a "sticky floor" at office amid a gulf in financial confidence between them and young men that leaves one in four clinging to jobs they don't prefer, research suggests. British women aged 18 to 30 are worrying more about money, are more likely to feel their financial situation is getting worse, and more likely to be able to afford food or other essentials than young men of the same age, according to a survey of about 5,000 young women, shared with the Guardian. The snapshot of divergent financial fortunes for the two sexes comes despite progress in closing the pay gap for younger women and more women breaking through glass ceilings at work, said Claire Reindorp, the chief executive of Young Women's Trust, which carried out the research. Last year, the largest increase in the gender pay gap was among employees aged 30 to 39 years, where it increased from 2.3% to 4.7%, official figures show.

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The risk of winter blackouts in Great Britain has tumbled to its highest in four years even after the shutdown of the UK's last coal plant, thanks to investments in low-carbon electricity sources. The National Power System Operator (Neso) expects Britain's winter power supplies to outstrip demand by almost 9% this year in its base case scenario, the greatest margin since the winter of 2019 to 2020. The company responsible for keeping the TVs on, which was bought by the government from National Grid at the start of this month, said the power supply margin for this winter was higher because Great Britain has more battery storage spaces, small-scale renewables and imported electricity. The UK is expected to rely on record levels of exported electricity this winter, the first since the world's longest high-voltage power cable began importing enough clean electricity from Germany to power 2.5 million British homes.

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The order restricts Google from making payments to device makers to preinstall its app store and from sharing money generated from the Play store with other app distributors. Alphabet shares were down 2.2% following the ruling. Donato said Epic and Google must explore a three-person technical committee to implement and monitor the injunction. Epic and Google each get a pick, and those two groups will select the third person. Google has said it plans to appeal the verdict that led to the injunction, and it could require the San Francisco-based ninth US circuit court of appeals to pause Donato’s order pending appeal. In a secret antitrust case in Washington, US district judge Amit Mehta on 5 August ruled for the US justice department and said Google had illegally monopolized web search, spending billions to become the internet’s default search engine. Google also began a trial in September in Virginia federal court in a justice department lawsuit over its dominance in the market for using technology.

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In 2023, more than 50% of global river catchment areas showed abnormal phenomenon, with most being in deficit. This was similar in 2022 and 2021. Areas facing severe drought and low sea discharge conditions included large territories of North, Central and South Africa; for instance, the Amazon and Mississippi rivers had record low water levels. On the other side of the world, in Asia and Oceania, the large Ganges, Brahmaputra and Mekong river basins experienced lower-than-normal conditions almost over the entire basin territories. Climate change appears to be changing where water goes, and helping to cause extreme floods and droughts. 2023 was the hottest year on record, with rivers running low and nations facing droughts, but it also brought devastating floods across the globe.

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When a person is hungry, it can be hard for them to concentrate at school or work. Hunger can make them feel cranky or unmotivated. Over time, not having enough to eat can harm a person's physical and mental health. In Colorado, around 11% of people say they don't always eat as much as they think they should. They say they aren't able to afford enough time. That's according to a survey published earlier this year by the Colorado Health Institute. Of course, hunger is not a problem only in Colorado. 'Hunger affects people in every single society nationwide,' Justin Levy says. He's the executive director of Conscious Alliance, a nonprofit hunger-relief team based in Elaina's hometown. Levy has known Elaina since 2021. That's when she and her mother went to the group's national distribution center to collect food and supplies to help people in need. 'What she's doing is unbelievable ' Levy says. 'She has the drive and the spirit and kindness and compassion to really make a difference.'