GLOBAL SNAPSHOT

Billy Graham dies

NORTH CAROLINA: The Reverend Billy Graham, dubbed “America’s Pastor” and the “Protestant Pope,” died yesterday at his North Carolina home at age 99, after achieving a level of influence and reach no other evangelist is likely ever to match. At his height he brought the word of God into living rooms around the globe via TV and dispensed spiritual counsel – and political advice – to US presidents.

Fashion remembers

MILAN: Milan Fashion Week started yesterday with a moment’s pause to put the focus on women who have come forward as victims of sexual misconduct.

Deadly bus crash

LIMA: A double-decker bus veered off a mountain road and plunged into a ravine in southern Peru yesterday, killing at least 44 people. The bus tumbled 80m down a jagged slope from the Pan-American highway – Peru’s main motorway – in the Arequipa.

Trump’s guns push

TALLAHASSEE: US President Donald Trump suggested arming teachers to deter mass shootings as he faced broken

voices, tears and demands for action at a meeting with survivors of the gun rampage that killed 17 people at a Florida high school. He also promised strong checks on gun owners.

Fire ‘wasn’t arson’

BEIJING: Chinese authorities have ruled out arson as the cause of a fire that damaged a 1300-year-old monastery that is one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most sacred sites. The fire at the Jokhang in the centre of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, burned an area of about 50sqm.

Embassy attack

PODGORICA: An unknown man has thrown an explosive device at the US embassy building in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, before blowing himself up.