Current Events #2 There Be a Storm a Brewing Typhoon Usagi has killed at least 25 people in Guangdong province of south China, the government has said. Winds of up to 180 km/h (110 mph) were recorded in some areas, toppling trees and blowing cars off roads. Its victims drowned or were hit by debris. The storm has affected 3.5 million people on the Chinese mainland. Step 1Checksubmits-chemical-weapons-list-to- watchdog/ html An international monitoring group says the Syrian government has handed over an inventory of its chemical weapons, a provision in a U.S.- Russian plan to avert a possible U.S. strike on Syria. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says it has received the "expected disclosure" from the Syrian government. Watch Out for that Treebeloved-brazilian-monkey-clings-to-a- shrinking-forest The tiny, copper-hued golden lion tamarin is so beloved in Brazil that its image graces the country's 20-real bank note. But this lion-maned monkey is in peril. There's only one place on earth where the golden lion tamarin lives in the wild: in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, or Mata Atlantica, just north of Rio de Janeiro. Deforestation in the region has reduced the monkey's habitat, once a massive ecosystem stretching for a half-million square miles, to just 2 percent of its original size. Turn the Other Cheek?victims-death-penalty-tsarnaev html Compounding that grief for the Campbell family and others affected by the bombing is the question of whether suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should face the death penalty if hes convicted a punishment that has not been handed down in Massachusetts in 66 years. In 1984, pushed in part by its heavily Catholic population, Massachusetts officially banned the practice for state cases. While its still in place for federal cases like Tsarnaev's, the death penalty charge has been rarely invoked though some wonder if that could change this time. Shoot-Out at the Park /chicago-park-shooting-leaves- 13-wounded-including-3-year-old-boy/ CHICAGO Those behind a late-night attack at a southwest Chicago park in which 13 people were wounded, including a 3- year-old, used an assault-style weapon to spray the crowd with bullets, making it "a miracle" no one was killed, the city's police superintendent said Friday. Terror in the Food Courtkenya-mall-attack ,0, story NAIROBI Thick smoke poured from the besieged Nairobi mall where Kenyan officials said their forces were closing in on Islamists holding hostages on Monday, the third day since Somalia's al Shabaab launched a raid that has killed at least 62 people. It remained unclear how many gunmen and hostages were still cornered in the Westgate shopping centre, after a series of loud explosions and gunfire were followed by black smoke billowing from one part of the complex. $500 Million Swooshsf/2013/09/phil_and_penny_knight_to_ohs u_1.html It was just another biennial gala for Oregon Health & Science University's Knight Cancer Institute when Phil Knight took the stage Friday night and threw the evening on its head. The Nike co-founder got the full attention of the 400 guests on the sixth floor ballroom in downtown Portland's The Nines Hotel in short order: Here's $500 million for cancer research, he said, if OHSU can match it in the next two years. Expensive Luggage Fees?pe/air-france-cocaine- found/index.html?hpt=hp_bn2 Bedlam Unearthedsrail-project-unearths-londons-macabre- past/2013/09/21/766aa41a e3- ad1a-1a919f2ed890_story.html London In an open pit near the old Bedlam insane asylum, where the curious once ogled chained lunatics for the price of a shiny coin, the skeletons in Londons closet are climbing to the surface. And dead men do tell tales. Take, for example, one poor soul recently unearthed from a long-lost graveyard in Bedlams back yard a 16th-century gentleman who was, perhaps, not so gentle in his day. His chalky skull bares the telltale signs of crude brain surgery. An honest attempt to cure the madness within? Or a joyride of an operation to slake the exotic tastes of doctors at a hospital whose name became synonymous with mayhem? (Bedlam is an archaic variation of its current name, Bethlem Royal Hospital.) Do Not Eat High Fish13/09/columbia_rivers_contaminated_r.html Fish that live year-round just above Bonneville Dam are so chock-full of contaminants that health authorities on Monday advised the public not to eat them at all. They also urged the public to limit the consumption of so-called resident fish in a 150-mile stretch upstream from Bonneville Dam. The World is Shakingpakistan- earthquake/index.html?iref=allsearch Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- An earthquake in Pakistan, powerful enough to prompt the appearance of a small island off the coast, has killed more than 200 people, Pakistani officials said. The 7.7-magnitude quake struck in a remote area of southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, but it had severe consequences. Bad Week for Pakistanpakistan-attack/index.html?iref=allsearch Alpinist Indiana Jonespe/france-mountain- jewels/index.html?c=homepage-t&page=2 A young man climbing a French glacier finds a cache of glittering jewels wrapped in bags stamped "Made in India" -- remnants, perhaps, of cargo from an ill-fated airliner called the Malabar Princess. The best thing about it? This story is true. It happened early this month on a glacier overlooking the southeastern French village of Chamonix, Albertville police Chief Sylvain Merly said Thursday. Mother Nature Takes a Biteund-gives-way-and-a-louisiana-town- struggles-to-find-its- footing.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=1& [I]n the predawn blackness of Aug. 3, 2012, the earth opened up a voracious maw 325 feet across and hundreds of feet deep, swallowing 100-foot trees, guzzling water from adjacent swamps and belching methane from a thousand feet or more beneath the surface. More than a year after it appeared, the Bayou Corne sinkhole is about 25 acres and still growing, almost as big as 20 football fields, lazily biting off chunks of forest and creeping hungrily toward an earthen berm built to contain its oily waters. It has its own Facebook page and its own groupies, conspiracy theorists who insist the pit is somehow linked to the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles south and the earthquake-prone New Madrid fault 450 miles north. It has confounded geologists who have struggled to explain this scar in the earth. Fairly Nearly Tracker-Jackerschina-asian-hornet-deaths/index.html