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Cyber attacks were launched on Taiwan's public websites. The Taiwanese foreign affairs ministry has now said that it has been hit by at least about 170 cyber attacks per minute.

A huge number of dead fish washed up on the banks of the Oder river which flows along the border of Germany and Poland. Conservationists have called for an investigation into this mysterious and tragic event.

Water has become a sacred commodity in northern Mexico. Reservoirs have been hitting the bottom of their basins, taps have been running dry for millions of people and farmers are struggling to keep their animals alive.

In Los Angeles, people are used to the sunny hot weather and are mostly strangers to rainfall. Now, they have finally got the chance to beat the heat with Seattle-style rain booth.

As India celebrated 75 years of independence, here's how FDI has become a key driver of India's economic growth.

India gained independence from British rule in 1947 but it took three more years for the country to become a republic.

The US speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent Taiwan visit upset China. Beijing launched its up its biggest drill in the Taiwan strait as a show of force. Cyber attacks launched on Taiwan's public websites.

The author Salman Rushdie has been attacked on stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York state. Local police say he appears to have been stabbed in the neck. His attacker has been taken into custody. Rushdie's book, "The Satanic Verses" has been banned in Iran since 1988 and is considered blasphemous by many Muslims. A year after the book was published, Iran's late leader, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie's death.