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Caesar Hull, DFC (1914–1940) and Paterson Hughes, DFC (1917–1940) were Royal Air Force (RAF) flying aces of the Second World War. They were killed in action in the Battle of Britain on the same day, 7 September 1940. Raised inSouthern Rhodesia, South Africa and Swaziland, Hull joined No. 43 Squadron in Sussex, England, in 1935, and took part in the fighting for Narvik during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940. Hull was the RAF's first Gloster Gladiator ace and the most successful RAF pilot of the Norwegian Campaign. He later saw action as a Hawker Hurricane pilot during the Battle of Britain, in which he was killed while diving to the aid of an RAF comrade. Hughes was born and raised in Australia and took a commission with the RAF in 1937. Posted to No. 234 Squadron following the outbreak of war, he flew Supermarine Spitfires and was credited with seventeen victories during the Battle of Britain. His tally made him the highest-scoring Australian of the battle, and among the three highest-scoring Australians of the war. Hughes is generally thought to have died after his Spitfire was struck by flying debris from a German bomber that he had just shot down. (See Caesar Hull andPaterson Hughes.)

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Le HCR dénombrait mercredi à la mi-journée 35.945 personnes coincées sur le territoire grec, dont 8550 «à l'intérieur» du campement d'Idomeni. Mais selon plusieurs autorités locales et des ONG, il y aurait en tout près de 14.000 personnes à Idomeni, et donc, plus de 40.000 dans toute la Grèce. Des milliers de personnes continuent d'arriver chaque jour. Dans le camp d'Idomeni, il y aurait jusqu'à 40 % d'enfants, selon une estimation de MSF. Leur nombre n'a cessé d'augmenter ces dernières semaines, et est beaucoup plus élevé que lorsque des premiers flux de septembre, constate Rajae Msefer Berrada, représentante adjointe de l'UNICEF en ex-république yougoslave de Macédoine. «Il y a beaucoup d'enfants en très bas âge, et même des bébés qui sont nés sur place, en Macédoine et en Grèce», rapporte-t-elle. Les conditions d'hygiène sont déplorables. Il a plu ces derniers jours des cordes, il n'y a pas un endroit où s'asseoir. «Ce n'est pas un camp, les conditions sont épouvantables. Ça sent mauvais, il n'y a pas de sanitaires, on ne peut pas se laver», poursuit Rajae Msefer Berrada. Il y a une centaine de toilettes pour des milliers de personnes.

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India, officially the Republic of India (IAST: Bhārat Gaṇarājya),^[20][21][c] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west;^[d] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Home to the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history.^[22] Four religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism—originated here, whereas Zoroastrianism, Judaism,Christianity, and Islam arrived in the 1st millennium CE and also shaped the region's diverse culture. Gradually annexed by and brought under the administration of the British East India Company from the early 18th century and administered directly by the United Kingdom after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, India became an independent nation in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by non-violent resistance led by Mahatma Gandhi.

Economists estimate India to have been the most populous and wealthiest region of the world throughout the first millennium CE. This advantage was lost in the 18th century as other regions edged forward.^[23] Currently, the Indian economy is the world's seventh-largest by nominal GDP and third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).^[17] Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the fastest-growing major economies; it is considered a newly industrialised country. However, it continues to face the challenges of poverty, corruption, malnutrition, inadequate public healthcare, and terrorism. A nuclear weapons state and a regional power, it has the third-largest standing army in the world and ranks sixth in military expenditure among nations. India is a federal republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 29 states and 7 union territories. India is a pluralistic, multilingual, and a multi-ethnic society. It is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats.

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• . that incoming Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has announced he will live in Rideau Cottage (pictured)instead of 24 Sussex Drive?
• ... that Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Elizabeth Williams is also an archaeologist and art historian who has taught at Columbia University and UC Berkeley?
• ... that Golem Arcana is a miniature wargaming game that interfaces with a digital app through the use of a Bluetoothstylus?
• ... that Vida Latham advocated for women in dentistry and medicine throughout her career in both fields?
• ... that the music video for Adam Lambert's "Another Lonely Night" features a transgender woman as its protagonist?
• ... that Dominik Wörner, winner of the 2002 International Bach Competition, recorded Lieder from Vienna written in the fin de siècleperiod, including works by Berg, Schönberg, Schreker and Wolf?
• ... that Villa Geber is best known as being Sweden's second most expensive residential property when it was sold to Salvatore Grimaldi in 2000?
• ... that while Brock Lesnar was stripped of the IWGP Heavyweight Championship by New Japan Pro Wrestling, Inoki Genome Federation continued to recognize him as the IWGP Heavyweight Champion?

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Balch Creek is a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) tributary of the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Beginning at the crest of theTualatin Mountains, the creek flows generally east down a canyon and through Forest Park, a large municipal park inPortland. It then enters a pipe and remains underground until reaching the river. Danford Balch, after whom the creek is named, settled a land claim along the creek in the 19th century, and was the first person legally hanged in Oregon. Basalt, mostly covered by silt in the uplands and sediment in the lowlands, underlies the Balch Creek watershed, which includes theAudubon Society of Portland nature sanctuary. Mixed conifer forest with a well-developed understory of shrubs and flowering plants is the natural vegetation. Sixty-two species of mammals and more than 112 species of birds use Forest Park. A small population of coastal cutthroat trout resides in the stream, which in 2005 was the only major water body in Portland that met state standards for bacteria, temperature, and dissolved oxygen. Although nature reserves cover much of the upper and middle parts of the watershed, industrial sites dominate the lower part.

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• The United States announces the renaming of Mount McKinley (pictured) in Alaska to its traditional name of Denali.
• Flash floods and mudslides caused by Tropical Storm Erika kill at least 20 people acrossDominica in the Lesser Antilles.
• Wildfires across the U.S. state of Washington, including the Okanogan Complex fire, destroy more than 200 homes and burn 920 square miles (2,400 km²).
• The ancient Temple of Baalshamin in Palmyra is destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
• At least 11 people are killed when a Hawker Hunter crashes onto a busy road during an airshow inShoreham-by-Sea, UK.

• Ongoing events: 
  • European migrant crisis