Bornean orangutans are in steep decline - World Wildlife Fund

An incoming fall storm is bringing rain and strong winds to Ontario on Friday, followed by a sharp drop in temperatures that could deliver the season’s first lake-effect snowflakes to parts of southern Ontario. Temperatures will fall sharply behind the departing system, with the coldest conditions expected overnight Friday into Saturday. DON'T MISS: Winter snowfall across Canada may fall victim to El NiñoRain eases as cold air moves inRain will gradually ease across much of Ontario through Friday, although scattered showers are expected to linger. Rainfall totals could reach 20-30 mm in parts of eastern Ontario, with locally higher amounts possible. Behind the storm, strong northerly winds will usher in much colder air, with gusts near 50 km/h. The winds will also generate higher-than-normal waves along the Great Lakes shorelines. Temperatures will drop rapidly overnight, with some inland areas potentially reaching or falling below the freezing mark.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.

What researchers uncovered through lab testing and surveillance footage, prosecutors said, was a plot by his fellow graduate student to intentionally poison him.