New York's Trash Talks: NYU Anthropologist Studies City Refuse
NYU professor Robin Nagle works with sanitation crews to analyze the city’s nearly 3.5 million tons of annual trash. She says New York is a throwaway culture moving too fast, treating items from furniture to electronics as disposable.
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Rain Helps Contain Washington Wildfires Amid Humidity Rise
Rain and cooler air aided crews battling North Star and Okanogan fire complexes in Washington state. North Star's blaze reached 313 square miles with about 22 percent containment while Okanogan stood around 30 percent contained as showers raised humidity and cooled temperatures.
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Thai police seek two new suspects in Bangkok bombing
Thai police issued warrants for a Thai woman Wanna Suansun and a foreign man as part of a widening probe into the August 17 Erawan Shrine bombing that killed 20. A man was arrested Saturday and bomb making gear was seized, with a 3 million baht reward announced for tips.
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Titanic's Last Lunch Menu Heads to Auction in NYC
The Titanic last lunch menu saved by Abraham Lincoln Salomon, a first class passenger aboard the Money Boat, is up for auction with an estimated price of 50 000 to 70 000. Lifeboat survivor Isaac Gerald Frauenthal signed the menu. Auction by Lion Heart Autographs on Sept 30 marks 30th anniversary of wreck discovery.
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IOM Chief Warns Blockades Increase Migrant Smuggling Risk
IOM Director General William Lacy Swing told AP that Hungary and similar states forcing migrants to travel by train push people toward smugglers and risk deadly outcomes. He noted more than 320000 migrants are expected to reach Europe this year, many from Syria, and urged EU cooperation to manage the surge.
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Afghan airfields seen as economic hubs for war-torn nation
NATO built eight airfields in Afghanistan worth about 2 billion dollars and is handing them to the government for civil aviation upgrades. Ex-lawmaker Mohammad Daud Sultanzoy says the airfields will become self-contained hubs, a future Silk Road linking Afghanistan with South Asia and Central Asia and beyond.
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