Final Touch: Michael Phelps finished his Olympic career last night with one last gold medal in the 4×100 medley relay. The most decorated athlete in Olympic history has said he’s going out on top with 28 medals, 23 of them …

It’s Political: Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine have released some tax returns, turning up the heat on Donald Trump do the same. Clinton’s 2015 return reveals that she and her husband Bill hauled in $10.6 million in 2015 and paid …

Grounded: Delta Airlines has grounded all its flights around the world this morning because of a problem with the company’s computer system. Delta operates about 5,000 flights a day, so a lot of travellers are going nowhere. Flights that were …

Party Unity: House Speaker Paul Ryan is still behind Donald Trump for president, even though Trump refuses to return the favor. It’s a perfect illustration of the dilemma faced by professional Republicans with an upstart candidate. Do they turn against …

Aftermath: Turkey has carried out raids rounding up 13 Islamic State suspects after the suicide attack at Istanbul’s airport. Turkey believes the Islamic State is responsible for the attack that killed 42 and wounded 230. Turkey has been a transit …

Outbreak: The first case of Ebola virus in the US has been diagnosed in a Texas hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The patient is a man who took a commercial flight from Liberia to Dallas on Sept. …

370: The surface search for wreckage from the missing Malaysia Flight 370 has been called off. The ships and aircraft involved have returned to base and a slow undersea search started yesterday. But the robotic submarine Bluefin had to perform …

  It is a shock that there was cheating going on in the Olympic badminton competition. Actually the shock is not so much the cheating, but that badminton is an Olympic sport.  This is a game created by bored British …