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Donald Trump is said to have changed his earlier decision of hosting the G7 summit at his golf resort in Florida after coming under fire.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa emphasised the need to identify roots and modalities of the attack and to bring those who were responsible before the law.

There is speculation that UK PM Boris Johnson wants to avoid appearing too close to a US president who is deeply unpopular in Britain, with protests planned in central London on Tuesday evening when Trump arrives.

The storm roared ashore late on Monday and passed south of Manila -- home to 13 million people -- and thousands of athletes at the regional Southeast Asian Games.

Oceans, which absorb 90 percent of the excess heat produced by greenhouse gases, are now at their highest recorded temperatures.

A Singapore professor has invented a biodegradable food wrap using the waste generated when soybeans are crushed to make soy milk.

The Dawn newspaper in its headline had identified the London Bridge attacker as 'UK national of Pakistani origin', unlike many other local dailies which said he was born and brought up in Britain and had no link with Pakistan.

The acknowledgment came in a television package that criticized international Farsi-language channels for their reporting on the crisis, which began on November 15.

US President Donald Trump arrived in London keen to see evidence of European countries boosting their military spending, after repeatedly lambasting them for what he considers freeloading on America for their defence.

Previous attempts, however, were blocked by Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, as they said they oppose climate neutrality by 2050 for fear cutting greenhouse emissions will stifle their economies.

Kammuri was expected to make landfall late Monday or early Tuesday and then pass to the south of the capital, which is home to some 13 million people and is hosting thousands of athletes for the regional Southeast Asian Games.

Putin last month proposed replacing the crowd-sourced online encyclopaedia Wikipedia with an electronic version of the Great Russian Encyclopaedia - the successor to the Soviet Union's main encyclopaedia.

With less than two weeks before Britain heads to the polls, law and order has raced to the top of the election agenda after Usman Khan, wearing a fake suicide vest and wielding knives, killed two people on Friday before being shot dead by police.

Khan said a capable bureaucracy has an important role in the economic development of the country as he directed bureaucrats to carry out their duties purely on merit.

The victims, two 15-year-old girls and a 13-year-old boy, were treated in a hospital and released late on Friday.

Police identified the man, who was shot dead by officers after the Friday attack, as 28-year-old Usman Khan, saying they were not actively seeking any other suspects in relation to the incident.