Mexico was pounded along both the Gulf and Pacific coasts by hurricanes and tropical storms during September. The heavy rains and winds caused flooding, building damage and devastating landslides, resulting in at least 139 deaths, more than 50 people missing and tens of thousands of people being evacuated.

Twenty-four of Mexico’s 31 states were affected, with the worst damage in Guerrero, Veracruz and Tamaulipas. At the beach resort of Acapulco in Guerrero, roads were flooded or...

More than 100 elephants died in the Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, after drinking at water holes that had been poisoned with cyanide by ivory poachers. Although two water holes had been identified as poisoned, there may be more. The death toll of elephants and many other animals is expected to continue to rise until the water holes can be fenced off or cleansed. 

Eight poachers were captured in the park with a cache of ivory. Three of them were sentenced to 15 years in prison and...

As ITN went to press, the State Department had travel warnings on 35 destinations: Afghanistan, Algeria, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Kenya, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Republic of South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and...