A failing dam is causing “extremely dangerous” flooding on a Puerto Rico river in the wake of Hurricane Maria, authorities say.
The National Weather Service (NWS) said the “imminent failure” of the Guajataca Dam is a “life-threatening situation”.
More than 70,000 people live in the nearby areas of Isabela and Quebradillas.
At least 13 people have died since Maria ripped through Puerto Rico, knocking out power to the whole island.
Operators of the Guajataca Dam said the structure, at the northern end of Lake Guajataca in northwest Puerto Rico, began to show signs of failing at 14:10 local time (18:10 GMT).
The UK’s credit rating has been cut over concerns about the UK’s public finances and fears Brexit could damage the country’s economic growth.
Moody’s, one of the major ratings agencies, downgraded the UK to an Aa2 rating from Aa1.
It said leaving the European Union was creating economic uncertainty at a time when the UK’s debt reduction plans were already off course.
Downing Street said the firm’s Brexit assessments were “outdated”.
The other major agencies, Fitch and S&P, changed their ratings in 2016, with S&P cutting it two notches from AAA to AA, and Fitch lowering it from AA+ to AA.
Moody’s said the government had “yielded to pressure and raised spending in several areas” including health and social care.
It says revenues were unlikely to compensate for the higher spending.
The agency said because the government had not secured a majority in the snap election it “further obscures the future direction of economic policy”.
It also said Brexit would dominate legislative priorities, so there could be limited capacity to address “substantial” challenges.
It added “any free trade agreement will likely take years to negotiate, prolonging the current uncertainty for business”.
Moody’s has also changed the UK’s long-term issuer and debt ratings to “stable” from “negative”.
The government said the latest downgrade followed a meeting on 19 September, and did not consider the prime minister’s speech on Friday, in which she outlined her vision for Brexit.
“The prime minister has just set out an ambitious vision for the UK’s future relationship with the EU, making clear that both sides will benefit from a new and unique partnership,” it said.
“The foundations on which we build this partnership are strong.”
It said it had a robust economic record and had made substantial progress in reducing the deficit.
“We are not complacent about the challenges ahead, but we are optimistic about our bright future.”
Consequences for borrowing
But Labour’s shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Peter Dowd, called the downgrade a “hammer blow” to the economic credibility of the Conservatives and Chancellor Philip Hammond.
He pointed out that it was the second time the credit rating had shifted downwards under their government.
Credit rating agencies, in essence, rate a country on the strength of its economy – scoring governments or large companies on how likely they are to pay back their debt.
A rating downgrade can affect how much it costs governments to borrow money in the international financial markets.
In theory, a high credit rating means a lower interest rate, and vice versa.
China has moved to limit North Korea’s oil supply and will stop buying textiles from the politically isolated nation, it said on Saturday.
China is North Korea’s most important trading partner, and one of its only sources of hard currency.
The ban on textiles trade will hurt Pyongyang’s income, while China’s oil exports are the country’s main source of petroleum products.
The tougher stance follows North Korea’s latest nuclear test this month.
The United Nations agreed fresh sanctions – including the textiles and petroleum restrictions – in response.
A statement from China’s commerce ministry said restrictions on refined petroleum products would apply from 1 October, and on liquefied natural gas immediately.
Under the UN resolution, China will still be able to export a maximum of two million barrels of refined petroleum to North Korea annually, beginning next year.
North Korea is estimated to have imported 6,000 barrels of refined petroleum daily from China in 2016 – the equivalent of nearly 2.2 million in total for the entire year.
But China has not published data on oil exports since 2014.
The ban on textiles – Pyongyang’s second-biggest export – is expected to cost the country more than $700m (£530m) a year.
Clothing has often partially been made in North Korea, but finished in China, allowing a Made in China label to be legally sewn onto the clothing, BBC World Service Asia-Pacific Editor Celia Hatton says.
China and Russia had initially opposed a proposal from the US to completely ban oil exports, but later agreed to the reduced measures.
North Korea has little energy production of its own, but does refine some petroleum products from crude oil it imports – which is not included in the new ban.
Petrol prices in Pyongyang have risen by about 20% in the past two months, the AFP news agency reports.
“It was $1.90 yesterday, today it is $2,” a petrol station employee told the agency. “I expect the price will go up in the future.”
North Korea’s foreign minister is expected to speak at the United Nations General Assembly later on Saturday, amid an escalating war of words between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump.
The North Korean leader earlier labelled Mr Trump “mentally deranged” and a “dotard” while Mr Trump labelled Mr Kim a “madman” in response.
Mr Lavrov said a pause was needed, “to calm down the hotheads”.
The pair were at odds over President Trump’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly, in which he threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea if forced to do so in defence of the US or its allies.
He also mocked Kim Jong-un with a disparaging nickname, saying: “Rocket man is on a suicide mission.”
But the North Korean leader said remarks by the “deranged” US president convinced him he is right to develop weapons for North Korea.
In a personal address unprecedented from a North Korean leader, Mr Kim said Mr Trump would “pay dearly” for his speech, which he labelled “unprecedented rude nonsense”.
He said Mr Trump had insulted his country in the eyes of the world, and threatened to “surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire”.
Indonesia has issued its highest level alert for a volcano on Bali, warning that an eruption on the popular tourist island could be imminent.
About 10,000 people have already been evacuated, with officials urging people to stay at least nine kilometres (5.6 miles) away from Mount Agung.
Tremors have been reported, and there are indications that magma is rising to the surface, the officials say.
More than 1,000 people died when Mount Agung last erupted in 1963.
“There should be zero public activity within the specified radius in case there is an eruption,” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho of Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency was quoted as saying by Reuters.
One villager, I Wayan Suwarjana, told the AFP news agency: “Tremors happen very often, so we are afraid and I have taken all my family members to the refugee shelter.”
Early on Saturday, officials said that increased seismic activity was ongoing, hours after the alert level was raised.
The latest report from Indonesia’s volcano observatory for aviation said the likelihood of an eruption appears to be increasing. But it added that eruptions cannot be predicted with perfect accuracy.
Bali’s international airport in Denpasar, which is used by millions of foreign tourists each year, is currently operating as normal, the officials say.
Australia’s department of foreign affairs has issued an advisory for the region, warning travellers that a possible eruption could severely disrupt air travel.
Predictions about the potential eruption are based on the one in 1963, which saw the volcano expel large amounts of debris and extensive lava flows.
It also involved a pyroclastic flow – a dangerous fast-moving hot cloud of gas, ash and volcanic matter.
Mount Agung, which is more than 3,000m above sea level, lies in the eastern part of Bali.
It is among about 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia – an archipelago prone to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes as it sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”.
Russia’s foreign minister has likened the war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un to a kindergarten fight between children.
The North Korean leader earlier labelled Mr Trump “mentally deranged” and a “dotard” after Mr Trump threatened to destroy his country.
Mr Trump responded with a tweet calling Kim Jong-un “a madman” who “will be tested like never before!”
Moscow’s Sergei Lavrov said a pause was needed, “to calm down the hotheads”.
“Yes, it’s unacceptable to silently watch North Korea’s nuclear military adventures but it is also unacceptable to unleash war on the Korean Peninsula,” he said.
He called for a political process, which he said was a key part of the United Nations Security Council process.
“Together with China we’ll continue to strive for a reasonable approach and not an emotional one like when children in a kindergarten start fighting and no-one can stop them,” he said.
The North Korean leader had attacked Donald Trump days after his speech at the UN, in which the US president said he would “totally destroy” North Korea if the US was forced to defend itself or its allies.
He also mocked Kim Jong-un with a disparaging nickname, saying: “Rocket man is on a suicide mission.”
But the North Korean leader said remarks by the “deranged” US president convinced him he is right to develop weapons for North Korea.
In an unprecedented personal statement, Mr Kim said Mr Trump would “pay dearly” for his speech, which he labelled “unprecedented rude nonsense”.
He said Mr Trump had insulted his country in the eyes of the world, and threatened to “surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire.”
Experts say this is the first time a North Korean leader has made a direct address to an international audience – and it merits serious and thorough consideration.
China also urged a calming of the heated rhetoric on both sides, saying the issue was “complicated and sensitive”.
“All relevant parties should exercise restraint instead of provoking each other,” said Foreign Minister spokesman Lu Kang.
North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme has demonstrated unprecedented progress this year. It recently conducted its sixth nuclear test and now claims it has miniaturised a nuclear warhead to fit on a long-range missile.
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho earlier warned that Pyongyang could test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean in response to the US president’s threat.
That would demonstrate North Korea’s claimed thermonuclear capability as a credible threat.
But the risk of such a move would be very high. It is not certain that missile defence systems in the Pacific could intercept the missile, and the risk of accidentally striking Japan – over which recent tests have flown – could spark a serious conflict.
Earlier, Mr Kim’s comments had prompted swift criticism from the Japanese government.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said in a news conference on Friday: “North Korea’s remarks and behaviour are provocative to regional and international security, and they are absolutely unacceptable.”
Mr Trump on Thursday signed a new order boosting sanctions against North Korea, where the US treasury would target firms and financial institutions doing business with Pyongyang.
He said: “For much too long North Korea has been allowed to abuse the international financial system to facilitate funding for its nuclear weapons and missile programs.”
The UN Security Council had approved new rounds of sanctions earlier this month aimed at starving North Korea of fuel and income, which were in response to Pyongyang’s much-condemned sixth nuclear test on 3 September.
Hurricane Maria has knocked out power across the island of Puerto Rico, home to 3.5m people, officials have said.
Flash flood warnings cover the entire island, which continues to be lashed by heavy rain in the storm’s wake.
Meanwhile more pictures are emerging of widespread destruction on the small island of Dominica, hit on Monday.
Maria, now a category three storm, has been lashing the Dominican Republic further west and heading towards the Turks and Caicos Islands.
It is the second devastating storm to hit the Caribbean this hurricane season – the first being category five Irma earlier in September.
‘Our island destroyed’
US President Donald Trump said the storm had “totally obliterated” the US territory, and pledged to visit Puerto Rico.
The island’s Governor Ricardo Rossello described the hurricane as “the most devastating storm in a century” and said that Maria had hit the island’s electricity grid so badly that it could take months to restore power.
The storm is being blamed for at least 10 deaths across the Caribbean. In Puerto Rico one man died after being struck by a board he had used to cover his windows.
The authorities have warned people to move to higher ground amid “catastrophic” flooding, and with up to 30in (76cm) more rain predicted by Saturday.
Images shared on social media show roofs being stripped away as winds as strong as 140mph (225km/h) whipped trees and power lines in Puerto Rico’s capital city, San Juan.
“God is with us; we are stronger than any hurricane,” Mr Rossello said. “Together we will rise again.”
The governor has asked President Donald Trump to declare the island a disaster area after the storm unleashed heavy flooding and life-threatening winds, and damaged infrastructure across the territory.
The US president is yet to do so, but has made federal emergency aid available.
Not far down the coast from the Puerto Rican capital, the small town of Cataño is trying to pick itself up after Hurricane Maria. The massive storm hit the town with incredible power when it swept over the island, tearing roofs off homes, flooding many houses and even destroying entire buildings.
The whole town is now gingerly making its way outside to begin the daunting task of clearing up. Some though, have nowhere to start.
I spoke to one resident, Juan Romero as he surveyed what’s left of his house: a tangled pile of wooden beams, rubble and twisted metal. “All I own is the clothes I’m wearing,” he told me. Nevertheless he was just thankful to have survived.
His neighbour then called me over to see her kitchen, its roof ripped clean off. Evelyn had also lost much, all her possessions are soaked and need replacing. However, it was concern for her aged mother that moved her to tears. At 101 years old she is too frail to be made to live elsewhere at this stage in life.
Just as I was leaving their street, a small piece of good news: Juan Romero found his two cats that had been missing in the ruins of his home, Blanca and Negra. Drenched and scared, they were at least alive.
“They’d had me worried”, Juan said with obvious relief.
What happened in Dominica?
The storm has cut a swathe through the Caribbean on its north-westerly trajectory, hitting Dominica on Monday night.
Homes have been flattened, schools have been destroyed, telecommunications have been cut off and the island’s main hospital is still without electricity, he said.
On Thursday CNN posted footage from a flight over the island showing scattered debris from homes ripped open and thousands of broken trees.
An adviser to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, Hartley Henry, said on Facebook: “The country is in a daze – no electricity, no running water – as a result of uprooted pipes in most communities and definitely [no] landline or cellphone services on island, and that will be for quite a while.”
Images from the capital, Roseau, show some streets knee-deep in debris.
Aid agencies have been preparing to go to Dominica to provide relief.
Hours before reaching Puerto Rico, Maria barrelled through the St Croix in the US Virgin Islands as a category five storm, sustaining winds of up to 175mph (281km/h).
The French territory of Guadeloupe suffered flooding on Monday and one person was killed by a falling tree and another died on the seafront. At least two others were missing after their ship sank near Desirade, the easternmost island in the archipelago.
Thursday’s incident came as Australia holds a two-month poll on whether to allow same-sex marriage – an issue which has prompted fierce debate.
‘Liverpool kiss’
Mr Abbott, who was left with a swollen lip after the incident, had described it as “politically-motivated violence” and suggested it showed how nasty the discourse had become in recent weeks.
He said his attacker claimed: “You deserve it because of what you’ve said.”
“It was very disconcerting to find that the Love is Love brigade, or at least someone who was advocating a “yes” vote, should under the guise of shaking your hand actually give you a so-called Liverpool kiss,” he told Sydney radio station 2GB.
Mr Labe told the Hobart Mercury that it was a coincidence he was wearing a “vote yes” sticker, saying he had it “purely because a friend of mine had walked past handing them out and had stuck one on my jacket”.
The attack dominated Australian news on Friday, with both sides of politics and marriage equality campaigners condemning the incident.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said earlier there was “zero tolerance” for violence and disrespectful conduct.
Alex Greenwich, the co-chair of Australian Marriage Equality, was also quick to denounce the incident.
“There is absolutely no place for violence in the marriage equality debate,” he wrote on Twitter. “This is about treating people fairly and with respect & dignity.”
Tasmania state police say they have charged a 38-year-old man with common assault. He has been granted bail and will appear in a local court on 23 October.
Last week, a man was charged with punching the godson of former prime minister Kevin Rudd in a dispute over same-sex marriage.
The results of the postal survey, due in November, could prompt a non-binding vote in parliament.
At least 15 people are dead and 20 others are missing on Dominica after Hurricane Maria, the Caribbean island’s prime minister has said.
It was a miracle that the death toll was not in the hundreds, PM Roosevelt Skerrit tearfully told a local television station.
Hurricane Maria ripped through Dominica as a category four storm late on Monday, damaging hundreds of homes.
The storm later devastated Puerto Rico, leaving the whole island without power.
Mr Skerrit said he has spent the last 24 hours surveying by air the destruction caused by the powerful storm.
“It has been brutal,” he said on Thursday on the nearby island of Antigua. “We’ve never seen such destruction.”
Homes have been flattened, schools have been destroyed, telecommunications have been cut off and the island’s main hospital is still without electricity, he said.
The hospital’s generators had to be set aside because of flooding and officials were still working to see if they could be turned on.
He added the island is “going to need all the help the world has to offer”.
Meanwhile, authorities in Puerto Rico are urging residents to seek higher ground ahead of flash flooding – with up to 30 inches (76cm) more rain predicted by Saturday – in the aftermath of Maria.
The island’s Governor Ricardo Rossello described the hurricane as “the most devastating storm in a century” and said that Maria had hit the island’s electricity grid so badly that it could take months to restore power.
Images shared on social media show roofs being stripped away as winds as strong as 140 mph (225 km/h) whipped trees and power lines in Puerto Rico’s capital city, San Juan.
Maria, now a category three storm, is moving off the northern coast of the Dominican Republic and heading towards the Turks and Caicos Islands.
The storm has claimed at least 17 lives so far across the Caribbean, with many others missing, officials say. Two people were killed in the French territory of Guadeloupe.
US President Donald Trump said the storm had “totally obliterated” the US territory, and pledged to visit Puerto Rico.
He has yet to declare the island a disaster area but has made federal emergency aid available.
At the scene: A city under curfew
By Will Grant in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Not far down the coast from the Puerto Rican capital, the small town of Cataño is trying to pick itself up after Hurricane Maria. The massive storm hit the town with incredible power when it swept over the island, tearing roofs off homes, flooding many houses and even destroying entire buildings.
The whole town is now gingerly making its way outside to begin the daunting task of clearing up. Some though, have nowhere to start.
I spoke to one resident, Juan Romero as he surveyed what’s left of his house: a tangled pile of wooden beams, rubble and twisted metal. “All I own is the clothes I’m wearing,” he told me. Nevertheless he was just thankful to have survived.
His neighbour then called me over to see her kitchen, its roof ripped clean off. Evelyn had also lost much, all her possessions were soaked and need replacing. However, it was concern for her aged mother that moved her to tears. At 101 years old she is too frail to be made to live elsewhere at this stage in life.
Just as I was leaving their street, a small piece of good news: Juan Romero found his two cats that had been missing in the ruins of his home, Blanca and Negra. Drenched and scared, they were at least alive.
It is the second devastating storm to hit the Caribbean this hurricane season – the first being category five Irma earlier in September.
Irma was one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, killing at least 84 people in the Caribbean and US.
The hurricane followed Harvey, which killed more than 80 people after it barrelled through Texas last month.
The idea of plant-eating dinosaurs having a strict vegetarian diet has been called into question.
New evidence suggests that some dinosaurs snacked on shellfish and insects as well as plant food.
A study of fossilised droppings indicates duck-billed dinosaurs dined on crabs at certain times of the year.
Fossil remains of dinosaur dinners is rare, so this pescatarian diet may have been overlooked in the past.
The popular perception of what dinosaurs ate was simplistic, said Dr Karen Chin of the University of Colorado, Boulder, US, who led the research.
“Plant-eating dinosaurs had more complex diets than we assumed that they had, and these diets included feeding on some animals, including at least crustaceans, and this was more like diets of modern plant-eating birds,” she told BBC News.
The new evidence comes from an area of southern Utah that is regarded as a treasure trove of fossils from the Late Cretaceous Period, when dinosaurs were coming to the end of their reign.
Fossilised dinosaur droppings found on the Kaiparowits Plateau give new insights into what was on the menu for dinosaurs.
Fragments of shell and other remains show they consumed crustaceans such as crabs, which likely sheltered in rotting wood.
The dinosaurs probably actively hunted for crustaceans and insects in a “woody stew” rather than swallowing them accidently, the researchers said.
Animal products may have been a vital source of protein, particularly when they were about to lay their eggs.
Plant guzzlers
“This find really breaks the mould for what we expect a plant-eating dinosaur to do,” said Dr Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh, UK, who was not connected with the study.
“We think of them as these multi-tonne plant guzzlers, but some of them also indulged in other types of food.
“And I guess we shouldn’t be too shocked because that’s true of many plant eaters today, they’ll ingest other stuff, sometimes accidentally, sometimes to supplement their diet with other nutrients.”
The droppings were left by dinosaurs some 75 million years ago on what would then have been a landscape dotted with rivers and ponds.
Duckbilled dinosaurs were common in the area at the time. The bones and teeth of the reptiles suggest they spent most of their time on land, though close to freshwater, feeding on tough plants such as ferns and conifers.
The discovery, detailed in the journal Scientific Reports suggests other plant-eating dinosaurs may have in fact been omnivorous.
“We’ll just have to find more evidence and we’re always on the look out for that,” said Dr Chin.
A local US police department has urged people not to call 911 after reports that a man had been crushed by a garage door.
The supposed victim in Greene County, Tennessee, turned out to be a scarily realistic, early Halloween decoration.
The department said it had received calls about a “suspicious person lying in a driveway with bloody handprints on the garage”.
Officers investigated, only to find it was a puppet stuffed with straw.
Greene County TN Sheriff’s Department wrote on Facebook: “ATTENTION EVERYONE!!! For those of you driving on Chuckey Pike in Greene County: THIS IS A HALLOWEEN DECORATION!
“Do NOT call 911 reporting a dead body. Instead, congratulate the homeowner on a great display.”
The display provoked plaudits on the department’s Facebook page.
“Literally congratulations to these people making something look so real!” one user commented.
Someone else wrote: “Can you imagine how many break-ins it could prevent…?”
But not everyone was impressed.
One user wrote: “What kid [sic] of picture does this paint for young children!!!!!”
Halloween is one of the most beloved holidays in the US.
Americans spent a record $8.4bn (£6.2bn) on the celebration last year, according to the National Retail Federation.