Hillary Clinton returns to campaign trail

Hillary Clinton returned Thursday to the campaign fray in a tightening race against Republican Donald Trump, who released new details on his physical fitness in response to the health scare that sidelined his rival.
The Democrat Clinton, seeking to turn the page after her poorly handled bout with pneumonia, was headed to North Carolina and then Washington as she resumed the White House race after a three-day convalescence.
“I am so much better,” the 68-year-old former secretary of state told the Tom Joyner radio show.
Clinton was taken ill Sunday during a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York where she was seen stumbling limp-legged into her vehicle, an episode that raised tough questions about her campaign’s transparency.
With the candidates’ health suddenly at the forefront of the campaign, Clinton looked to head off further scrutiny by releasing new medical records Wednesday indicating that she was “fit to serve” as president.

Investigators confirm Tanzania debris is part of missing MH370

Investigators have confirmed that a piece of aircraft debris that was found in Tanzania nearly three months ago was part of the missing MH370.
The Malaysian Minister of Transport, Liow Lai, said on Thursday in Kuala Lumpur that the debris, an outboard wing flap, was recovered along the coast of the island of Pemba in Tanzania on June 20.
He said that the finding that the debris was part of the Malaysia Airlines aircraft was established after thorough examination by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau with the concurrence of the MH370 Safety Investigation team.

Bank of England freezes rate awaiting Brexit fallout

The Bank of England said Thursday it was keeping its key interest rate at a record-low 0.25 percent, with no indication that the Brexit vote outcome was hurting the economy.
The BoE said after a regular monetary policy meeting that it expected “less of a slowing in UK GDP growth in the second half of 2016” following better-than-expected economic data in the wake of Britain’s vote to exit the European Union.
The decision raised questions among analysts over why the BoE last month cut the rate from 0.50 percent.
Its governor Mark Carney last week defended the move, saying it was partly thanks to such action that the economy had held up after the June vote to exit the EU.
Minutes from the latest monthly meeting stressed that the central bank could still decide to cut the rate further to just above zero percent before the end of the year.
“What’s interesting is that despite the better-than-expected data, most… (BoE policymakers) still

Family hangs woman, boyfriend over extramarital affair

A Pakistani mother-of-three and the man she was allegedly having an affair with were hanged from a tree on Thursday, with police blaming her husband, brother and father for carrying out the killings.
The grisly murders occurred in the village of Chak 56 around 55 kilometres (33 miles) northeast of the central city of Multan.
Hundreds of so-called “honour killings”, in which the victim, normally a woman, is killed by a male relative or relatives for bringing shame to the family are carried out in Pakistan every year.
“A woman and her alleged boyfriend were hanged to death by the woman’s father, brother and husband after the woman was caught on a date with her boyfriend in the backyard of her house,” Sardar Afzal Dogar, chief of the local police station told AFP.
The victims were named as Khalida Bibi, who was in her late twenties, and Mukhtiar Muhammad, who was around 19.

Trump, Clinton in tight race for White House – Poll

Less than two weeks before their first debate, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a very tight race for the White House, a national poll showed Wednesday.
The CBS News/New York Times survey found Clinton had just a two-point edge (46 to 44 percent) over her Republican rival in a two-way match-up among likely voters. Among registered voters, the Democratic nominee was five points ahead, at 46 to 41 percent.
When third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein were included, the race was tied among likely voters — at 42 percent each — while Clinton had a slight edge (41 to 39 percent) among registered voters.

World’s oldest man turns 113, readies for Bar Mitzvah

The world’s oldest man turned 113 on Thursday and the Holocaust survivor living in Israel readied for the Bar Mitzvah he was denied a century ago, his family said.
Yisrael Kristal, an observant Jew from Zarnow in what is now Poland and currently living in the port city of Haifa, was born on September 15, 1903, three months before the Wright brothers’ first successful powered airplane flight.
Guinness World Records in March recognised him as the world’s oldest man.
While he turned 113 on Thursday under the Gregorian calendar, his family will celebrate the birthday at the end of September according to the Hebrew calendar, his daughter Shula Koperstoch told AFP.
The festivities will include a Bar Mitzvah that will come 100 years late.
The Bar Mitzvah is one of the most important ceremonies in the life of a Jew.

World Bank chief Kim heads for 2nd term

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim effectively won a second five-year term after nominations to lead the global development bank closed Wednesday with no other candidates proposed.
The World Bank executive board said in a statement that, following official procedures, it would formally meet with Kim as a candidate “with the expectation of completing the selection process by the 2016 Annual Meetings,” which take place on October 7-9.
Kim, 56, a Korean-American medical doctor who has focused the World Bank on programs to reduce extreme poverty, earned solid backing for a second term from the United States, France, Germany, China, and other major shareholders of the bank.
But as with his first nomination in 2012, the bank was criticized from inside and outside for not truly opening the selection process to all comers and not managing it in a fully transparent mode.
Following an unwritten rule, since the World Bank was created in the wake of World War II to help

Trump is in excellent physical health – Doctor

Donald Trump released lab results Thursday from a recent medical examination, with his personal physician stating that the Republican presidential candidate “is in excellent physical health.”