The great Tom Wolfe passed away last week. Master of the masters of the universe, he was 88, and if his last book was an oddity — The Kingdom Of Speech, really? — some of its predecessors are well known to you, gentle reader, writes Michael Moynihan.

A woman stranded in her car for two weeks in the southern California desert, in May, said she forgave her husband for making a wrong turn and was prepared to die with him. 

An elderly husband and wife stranded for two weeks in southern California’s high desert ate oranges and a pie and drank rainwater that they collected in cups, but the 79-year-old husband died at some point before the couple’s rescue.

A top US government scientist has performed a U-turn on climate change, saying global warming is not responsible for the recent increase in Atlantic hurricanes.

Flooding in eastern Uganda has forced 2,000 people from their homes and affected 50,000 during the heaviest rains there for 35 years, humanitarian agencies said today.