"There is once again, the German arrogance – and it is still that, even if the fight is for a noble goal," wrote Christoph Hasselbach, warning that the authority built by the German Chancellor during the Greek debt crisis was then spent by poor handling of the migrant crisis.

"Everybody is trying to save himself, even at the expense of others," says Hasselbach, warning that the German encouragement of refugees to come to Europe has dealt a critical blow to unity on the continent.

Fire struck a facility for refugees in the central Swedish town of Höör on Thursday in a suspected arson attack that became the latest in a series of such incidents in Sweden in the past few weeks, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported.

According to police, someone splashed flammable liquid through the window of the refugee building in Höör, and then set it on fire. The staff reportedly managed to tackle the blaze with a fire extinguisher and there was no immediate word on injuries.

More than 10 arson attacks have occurred in Sweden in the past four weeks, all of them targeting migrant workers; meanwhile, the number of foreigners seeking asylum in the country has risen with each passing day. Europe is currently struggling to manage a major migration crisis. Over 710,000 migrants arrived in the European Union during the first nine months of 2015, according to the EU border agency Frontex.

And the situation is being aggravated by the following: firstly the people's weariness with austerity. Although we are still far from having implemented the reform programme the country feels it has done its duty and now deserves a reprieve. Secondly, there are the express pledges of all the parties to ease the austerity policy.

Whatever lies in store for the government, its future doesn't look rosy. If it keeps its promises the troika will soon be knocking on the door again. But if it shows good sense and acts as the situation demands, it will be crucified for betraying the voters.

“As I have stated publicly on many occasions, there is no definitive scientific proof, through real-world observation, that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate that has occurred during the past 300 years, since the peak of the Little Ice Age. If there were such a proof through testing and replication it would have been written down for all to see.

The contention that human emissions are now the dominant influence on climate is simply a hypothesis, rather than a universally accepted scientific theory. It is therefore correct, indeed verging on compulsory in the scientific tradition, to be skeptical of those who express certainty that ‘the science is settled’ and ‘the debate is over’.

But there is certainty beyond any doubt that CO2 is the building block for all life on Earth and that without its presence in the global atmosphere at a sufficient concentration this would be a dead planet. Yet today our children and our publics are taught that CO2 is a toxic pollutant that will destroy life and bring civilization to its knees.

To conclude, carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is the stuff of life, the staff of life, the currency of life, indeed the backbone of life on Earth.”

"This is now possible for the first time in the history of UFO research as a result of an unprecedented convergence of high resolution digital camera technologies, off-the shelf scientific instrumentation, powerful low-cost computing platforms, and ubiquitous high-speed internet access."

The website says: "Our goal is to exploit this technological convergence by building a large network of automated surveillance stations with sophisticated sensors that will monitor the skies 24/7 looking for aerial anomalies.

Such a science is needed because of misplaced certainties on both sides of the UFO debate: “believers” convinced that UFOs are extraterrestrials, and “skeptics” equally convinced that UFOs do not even exist. "Our own view is that humanity knows very little about the true nature of unexplained UFO reports, and that the only way to resolve this lack of understanding is through serious scientific study."

NASA satellites have pinpointed 358 fire hotspots in the last week alone as the flames rage through fields, scrub and into the precious rainforests. By the day the death toll of fire-fighters rises. At least 19 have been killed by blazes that move faster than a man can run. Indonesia’s tragedy is the horrifying consequence of slash-and-burn farming and the impacts of an El Niño weather system that has turned the land into a tinderbox.

Together, they have created an unstoppable fire storm that has coated thousands of square miles in a deadly shroud of smoke that is impacting on millions of lives. Warships have been put on alert to evacuate children from the worst areas where the toxic smoke hovers and schools and offices are being shutdown.

Flights have been cancelled and it is predicted that Indonesia’s faltering economy could suffer £32 billion losses, around four per cent of its GDP. For Indonesia, an emerging Far East powerhouse, the fires are also creating diplomatic friction with neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia.

"It's been a long time since there was any water here," said a security guard walking up the dry bed to order AFP journalists away on Friday. The scene at Saracuruna is repeated across much of eastern Brazil between Rio and the megacity of Sao Paulo, with reservoirs and rivers running dry and authorities scrambling to avoid having to impose rationing. Rio de Janeiro state's environmental department blames "the worst drought in 85 years" for the crisis, while independent activists say decades of bad policy is equally culpable.

Although the southern tropical rainy season is just beginning, scientists fear that the El Nino weather phenomenon active this year may disrupt that hoped for relief from the sky, leaving tens of millions of people at risk. Daily water access, potential disruption of the 2016 Rio Olympics, crop irrigation, and the running of Brazil's hydroelectric industry, which provides for 75 percent of the country's power, are all at stake.

“The lack of rainfall in Gauteng is exacerbating the situation. The high water demand will cause localised problems in the City of Johannesburg, City of Tshwane and the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.” The restrictions are being implemented until further notice and mean no excess outside use of water is permitted between 6am and 6pm.

The announcement comes as the entire country moves into the grips of the worst drought in 23 years. The past two droughts coincided with El Niño weather patterns in the Pacific Ocean, which warms the world’s largest body of water and creates drought in much of the southern hemisphere. Its appearance in 1982 and 1991 led to two year-long droughts across South Africa.

Jorgensen was in her third trimester when the car accident occurred in May 2008. Her daughter was delivered by C-section after the head-on collision and died six days later, according to the report. In October, the New York Court of Appeals reversed Jorgensen’s conviction, ruling that she was not guilty because she fatally injured her daughter before she was born. Not all of the judges agreed on the ruling. In a dissent, Judge Eugene Fahey wrote, “I cannot join in a result that analyzes our statutes to determine that a six-day-old child is not a person.”

Warner Todd Huston notes that as outrageous as the ruling may seem, the court is right that current state laws do not recognize unborn babies as “persons.” Jorgensen is no longer being held accountable for her baby’s death because, in the eyes of the state, her unborn daughter did not have the rights of personhood when her reckless behavior fatally injured her child.

After about four hours downtown, I went home with a great feeling about this year’s Halloween celebration. Our Daily Sun News “Pirates of Publication” entry was a hit. My staff and I had a lot of fun. And children had a safe venue to celebrate.

But when I got home and turned on the TV, I heard a clip of an evangelist preaching about the evils of participating in Halloween. In this day and age, to him, it was evil. But if you were downtown last night, you’d know there was nothing evil about All Hallow’s Eve in Sunnyside. I just can’t believe people are still that uneducated about Halloween — which, incidentally, is my favorite holiday. So to set the record straight, let’s talk about Halloween and its history for a little bit.

In case you didn’t know, Halloween is a mixture of Christian and pagan celebrations. And while some of you may be aghast about some of the pagan traditions in today’s modern Halloween, they were actually designed to ward off evil. Our modern celebration isn’t about Satan. It’s about having a safe, fun evening. It’s about dressing up. It’s about feasting. And it’s still about warding off evil, no matter how religious you are.

The figures also found while 57% classified themselves as Christian, fewer than 10% actually go to church. Many scholars agree that Jesus was a real man, who lived in Galilee over two thousand years ago, although many details surrounding his life are still debated.

But, the Church of England survey found that four in 10 people did not realise Jesus was a real person, with a quarter of 18 to 34 year olds believing he was a mythical or fictional character.

Voters are due to decide by the end of 2017 whether the UK should remain in the EU, and opinion polls show rising support for leaving the bloc. Froman’s comments on Wednesday undermine a key economic argument deployed by proponents of exit, who say Britain would prosper on its own and be able to secure bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) with trading partners.

The US is Britain’s biggest export market after the EU, buying more than $54 billion (£35 billion) in goods from the UK in 2014. “I think it’s absolutely clear that Britain has a greater voice at the trade table being part of the EU, being part of a larger economic entity,” Froman told Reuters, adding that EU membership gives Britain more leverage in negotiations.

“We’re not particularly in the market for FTAs with individual countries. We’re building platforms … that other countries can join over time.” If Britain left the EU, Froman said, it would face the same tariffs and trade barriers as other countries outside the US free trade network.

This means that China was responsible for more than a third of all the $57 trillion debt created since 2007, making a mockery of the QE unleashed by all the DM central banks - something we first noted about two years before the famous McKinsey report went to print. However, it was precisely this credit expansion that not only allowed China to completely ignore the global depression of 2008/2009 but to build lots and lots of ghost cities such as these.

To be sure, many noticed but everyone kept quiet: after all, to build these cities China not only had to create trillions in debt, it had to import hundreds of billions worth of commodities from places such as Brazil and Australia. Then, in the late summer and fall of 2014 something happened: for whatever reason, as we noticed one year ago, the most unregulated aspect of China's financial system, its shadow banks, not only stopped lending money but actually went into reverse, thus putting a lid on China's Total Social Financing expansion, which had been the world's "under the radar" growth dynamo for so many years. At that moment not only did China's ghost cities officially die, but it meant an imminent collapse for China's feeder commodity economies such as the abovementioned Australia and Brazil.

And since China's domestic demand, not only from "ghost cities" but all other fixed investment was a function of pervasive credit, suddenly China's commodity industry in general, and steel industry in particular, entered a state of shocked stasis. To get a sense of how bad it is, look no further than China's steel industry. It is here that, as Bloomberg reports, "demand is collapsing along with prices," and "banks are tightening lending and losses are stacking up, the deputy head of the China Iron & Steel Association said on Wednesday."

As we reported a month ago, at current commodity prices, over half the debtors in China's commodity space are generating so little cash, they can't even cover their interest payment. They are, therefore, utterly insolvent, and the broader Chinese bond market is well aware of this - this is the reason why suddenly credit funding has collapsed. And this is how China's steel (and commodity in general) sector has suddenly found itself paralyzed without access to funding, and with collapsing end demand.

The heated exchange came after a US warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of one of Beijing's man-made islands in the contested Spratly archipelago on Tuesday. In a statement, Mr Shengli said: “If the United States continues with these kinds of dangerous, provocative acts, there could well be a seriously pressing situation between frontline forces from both sides on the sea and in the air, or even a minor incident that sparks war. I hope the US side cherishes the good situation between the Chinese and US navies that has not come easily and avoids these kinds of incidents from happening again.”

Now the EU has waded into the argument saying it is siding with Washington, in a move that may affect Brussels' discussions with Beijing at next week's Asia-Europe Meeting of foreign affairs ministers. A senior EU official said: “The US are exercising their freedom of navigation.” He said the EU was concerned about Beijing's plans to build new islands in contested waters, a statement that may be welcomed by other Asian nations opposing China's claims to almost the entire South China Sea.

Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei contest China's sovereignty over parts of one of the world's busiest sea lanes. The official added: "While not taking a position on claims, the EU is committed to a maritime order based upon the principles of international law, in particular as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the law of the Sea.”