Hong Kong's streets have once again descended into violence as protesters clashed with police who fought back the masses with riot shields, batons and pepper spray. Thousands of demonstrators marched on the border town of Sheung Shui today to rail against Chinese traders, tapping into the recent anger over proposed extradition laws to swell their support. The march began peacefully but it wasn't long before nasty skirmishes broke out when protesters began lobbing hard hats at officers who retaliated by clobbering the demonstrators. 👮🏻‍♂️😱 #retract

Massive well done to everyone that came to #BelmarshPrison tonight to protest for #TommyRobinson. He heard you all & is so thankful you all made the effort for him.

He will sleep better tonight knowing, we all behind him!!

We are stronger together!!!

#FreeTommy #WellDone 🇬🇧

Cheers were heard across large swathes of Manhattan as the lights flicked back to life after an hours-long outage caused chaos in the city. The blackout was reported in Midtown, Times Square, Hell’s Kitchen, and other parts of Upper Manhattan, with subway stations affected and street lights out. The New York City Fire Department said the cause of the outages, which left more than 73,000 Con Edison customers without power, was a transformer fire which started at West 64th Street and West End Avenue on the Upper West Side. No deaths or injuries were reported due to the blackout, which officials said began at 6.47pm and darkened a stretch of the city from West 42nd Street to West 72nd Street, 42 years to the day from a major 1970s blackout that sparked rioting and looting. #NYC

On July 13, 1977, lightning strikes wiped out a power line in Westchester causing the Indian Point generating station that lit most of the city to crash as well. The damage during the 25 hour blackout was vast - the New York Times reported that 1,000 fires were set by arsonists and 1,600 stores were ransacked. A reported 3,373 people were also arrested for looting and vandalism. Thieves stole cars, jewelry, televisions and even large pieces of furniture. A steep economic decline along with rising crime rates and the war on drugs made for an already gloomy Big Apple that was just further darkened by the Son of Sam murders that gripped the city. 🗿 #history #NYC

Hurricane Barry weakens to a tropical storm as it makes landfall near New Orleans with two FEET of rain predicted over two DAYS causing 'life threatening floods' that will test post-Katrina defenses 💦🌪