The Trump administration has declared that its relief efforts in Puerto Rico are succeeding, but people on the island said help was scarce eight days after Hurricane Maria devastated the US territory.

US government authorities diverted a San Francisco-bound United Airlines jet to Dallas as a precautionary security measure after finding an unclaimed BlackBerry hand-held computer on board.

THE US official sent in to oversee Baghdad and a large swath of its surrounding territory is leaving her position immediately after less than a month, a spokesman for the postwar American administration said yesterday.