Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said a large crowd that gathered throughout Monday at the site of a burned-out convenience store turned rowdy at nightfall, throwing rocks at police. Officers used tear gas and shot "beanbag rounds" meant to stun them, he said.

St Louis County police spokesman Brian Schellman said there were at least five arrests and no reports of looting. Nearly three dozen people were arrested following a candlelight vigil Sunday night when crowds burned stores, vandalized vehicles, assaulted reporters and taunted officers. "People are tired. They have reached the end of their rope," said Ruth Latchison Nichols after the NAACP forum, where many more were left waiting outside once the pews reached capacity. "Enough is enough. This is a state of emergency."

The index is the first measure of confidence among German investors since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down close to the Ukraine-Russia border on July 17. As such, Tuesday’s figures were likely “to reflect uncertainty and persistent geopolitical tensions”, according to analysts at BNP Paribas. Geopolitical fears have already taken their toll on equities, and have brought Europe’s many other challenges back into focus.

Ahead of today’s release BNP Paribas said that they saw a “risk of the index plunging even further”. Independent of Russia-related trade sanctions, recent data releases have been “a reminder of Europe’s remaining weak spots”, said analysts at Barclays. Recent weeks have seen Italy slide back into recession, a further slump in measures of Germany’s industrial strength, and turmoil in Portugal’s banking sector.

Persecuted by ISIS for their beliefs and forced out of Sinjar, their survival options are brutal: Head for the barren Iraqi mountain range where others have been trapped by Islamic State militants for a week with no food and water - or walk the gruelling miles, often with young children to join the 10,000 to 15,000 Yazidis who have already fled to neighbouring Syria.

Aid has finally started getting through to Yazidis on Sinjar Mountain, but a member of the Iraqi air force today warned it could take up to 500 days to rescue the 50,000 refugees unless the UK and US helps with the evacuations. But with hundreds of Yazidis dying of thirst and hunger, critics have questioned why there is not a unified rescue plan being put in place by the international community.

The receding shoreline at one of the main reservoirs in the vast Colorado River water system is raising concerns about the future of a network serving a perennially parched region home to 40 million people and 4 million acres of farmland.

The lake has dropped to 1,080 feet above sea level this year - down almost the width of a football field from a high of 1,225 feet in 1983. A projected level of 1,075 feet in January 2016 would trigger cuts in water deliveries to Arizona and Nevada. At 1,000 feet, drinking water intakes would go dry to Las Vegas, a city of 2 million residents and a destination for 40 million tourists per year that is almost completely dependent on the reservoir.

Police say the Muslim-Yazidi clash was triggered after six Islamists stormed a restaurant in the eastern Westphalian town of Herford at around 4 pm on August 7. The Muslims were attempting forcibly to remove a poster inviting people to join a demonstration in support of the Yazidis in Iraq. Thousands of Yazidis, an ethnic Kurdish non-Muslim minority, were forced to flee their homes in northern Iraq in early August to escape advancing Islamic State fighters, who are forcing the Yazidis to convert to Islam or be killed.

Several hours after the restaurant attack, between 300 and 500 Yazidis gathered in the Herford town center, where they clashed with a large group of hooded Salafists. More than 100 police reinforcements from across eastern Westphalia were called in to restore order. Police, who used pepper spray to disperse the two groups, confiscated makeshift weapons and one firearm, and questioned 86 people.

In the final tally, police arrested six individuals involved in the attack on the Yazidi restaurant: Five ethnic Chechen Salafists and one German convert to Islam. According to German media, two of the individuals are leading Salafist operatives who were already being monitored by German intelligence. German authorities have long warned of the threat posed by Salafism, a radically anti-Western ideology that seeks to impose Islamic sharia law in Germany and other parts of Europe.

A congressional investigation into the plot produced a year after the attacks included a 28-page section that the George W Bush administration classified. That portion, titled “Finding, Discussion and Narrative Regarding Certain Sensitive National Security Matters,” has been rumored to contain information that indicates Saudi intelligence helped the al-Qaeda terrorists. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens.

A bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill has urged the White House to release the classified section of the 2002 report. That came in the form of Resolution 428 introduced last year by Representatives Walter Jones (Republican for North Carolina) and Stephen Lynch (Democrat for Massachusetts), who renewed their call in April with a letter to the president. Unless Obama acts soon, the lawmakers will hold a press conference next month on the September 11 anniversary to draw more attention to the issue.

Well, ISIS captured some key oil fields in the Kurdish region of Iraq on August 3rd. Mere days later, the US started bombing ISIS. It should be noted, initially, that months of murder, mayhem and brutality by ISIS on Christians and other minorities didn’t cause the US or France to intervene militarily for “humanitarian” reasons.

And notice that the airstrikes were very targeted on protecting Erbil … the regional capital of Kurdistan. So why are the US and France moving now to protect Erbil? Because Erbil has now become a major oil center. The Kurdish government estimates that the region is the world’s 9th largest oil producer.

Total is safe, Colgate says, citing the rigorous Food and Drug Administration process that led to the toothpaste’s 1997 approval as an over-the-counter drug. A closer look at that application process, however, reveals that some of the scientific findings Colgate put forward to establish triclosan’s safety in toothpaste weren’t black and white - and weren’t, until this year, available to the public.

Colgate’s Total application included 35 pages summarizing toxicology studies on triclosan, which the FDA withheld from view. The agency released the pages earlier this year in response to a lawsuit over a Freedom of Information Act request. Later, following inquiries from Bloomberg News, the FDA put the pages on its website. The pages show how even with one of the US’s most stringent regulatory processes - FDA approval of a new drug - the government relies on company-backed science to show products are safe and effective.

The recently released pages, taken alongside new research on triclosan, raise questions about whether the agency did appropriate due diligence in approving Total 17 years ago, and whether its approval should stand in light of new research, said three scientists who reviewed the pages at Bloomberg News’s request.

There has been increasing concern in the UK over the growing influence of the EU in recent years, with fears that new laws threaten London’s position as a world-class financial centre. Banks have been forced to cap bonuses, under EU rules, affecting their ability to compete with institutions in the US and elsewhere, while authorities are introducing a tax on financial transactions likely to disproportionately affect Britain.

“There is a real danger that powers like these could be used to undermine Britain’s position as the global capital of the financial world, a position enviously coveted by some on the continent,” said Matthew Elliott, the chief executive of Business for Britain. “Fundamentally the British people and their institutions should regulate Britain’s banks and financial industry.”

The British Bankers’ Association said: “Any extension of these organisations’ roles needs to strike the right balance between preserving national interests and safeguarding the single market.” The commission proposed that the costs of the new workload would be funded not out of government and EU budgets, as at present, but from a levy on banks and insurers. It said the fee should depend on the size of the bank, meaning the UK is likely to bear most of the costs.

This week, senior figures at Britain’s biggest banks have criticised the growing tide of regulation they have to deal with. Douglas Flint, the chairman of HSBC, said red tape was forcing staff at banks to assume a “zero risk tolerance” from watchdogs, while Lloyds boss Antonio Horta-Osorio said it was “incentivising people to do nothing”. The European Commission said its proposals would be sent to the European Parliament and heads of member states on the European Council to be considered.