US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham yesterday dismissed President Donald Trump&s proposal to seize Gaza and force out the Palestinians, while Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal said he expects Arab states to put forward a workable alternative.

Samarth Mahangade was serving juice to tourists at a roadside when the call came. &Where are you? The exam&s already starting,& his panicked friend said.

The sewerage systems of Florida are teeming with an &abundance& of alligators, raccoons and a dozen other animals using the drain pipes to traverse urban areas, scientists have revealed.

UN officials yesterday asked for $6bn (€5.7bn) for Sudan this year from donors to help ease what they called the world&s worst ever hunger catastrophe and the mass displacement of people brought on by civil war.