At least four people have been killed and another 30 have been injured after a tour bus crashed outside of Bryce Canyon National Park Friday. Around 12-15 of those hurt are also said to have sustained 'very critical injuries' in the crash along Route 12, the Utah Highway Patrol announced. It’s believed the bus, which was thought to be carrying 30 people, struck a guard rail and rolled over around three-and-a-half miles west of the park at 12:00pm local time. Witnesses say the bus started drifting and veered off of the road when the driver over-corrected. No other car was involved. The bus was carrying a group of Chinese-speaking tourists and was heading eastbound on the mountain road toward the national park.

Climate change protests took over big cities across the country on Friday, with hundreds of thousands skipping school in Boston, Washington DC, Omaha, Indianapolis and Greenborough to join millions around the globe in the lead-up to teenage activist Greta Thunberg's appearance in New York for a summit at the UN. In New York itself, the city's Department of Education said all its 1.1 million schoolchildren were free to skip class to participate in the strike if they had parental consent - without any fear of punishment as Thunberg, who has been nominated for a Nobel prize for her climate activism, spearheaded a rally at the United Nations headquarters. It appears that many took heed of the relaxed school attendance laws, as the streets of Manhattan overflowed with thousands of young protesters on Friday afternoon. 🌎