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Young people in Shanghai were bracing themselves for a big party on Halloween night, but a police crackdown on costumes has left China's most international city with rain-sodden empty streets.In a four-hour walk around the bar and nightclub area of Shanghai, we saw two people in Halloween costumes. They told us they had registered their outfits with the police. The police were the only ones out in force, with half a dozen officers on every corner ensuring the streets stayed quiet with no raucous revellers.This all kicked off last weekend when Halloween fans started wearing their costumes out, including a couple of Spidermen, a Buddha, and a fake policeman.According to social media footage that appeared on Chinese sites and then X, the real police then bundled the partygoers away and ordere...

To walk through the streets of Paiporta is to see nature at its most vicious. Everywhere, there is chaos in this town. Lives have been ripped apart, turned upside down and ended. Spain floods latest: Looting breaks out as flood deaths surpass 150You can't drive into Paiporta, a suburb about 4 miles to the southwest of Valencia, so we cover the final mile by foot. For most of the walk, we pass past fruit groves. The sun is getting warmer.It could be a normal day. Except then you arrive in the town, and normality has gone. We turn a corner and find a road that has been wholly blocked by a wall of cars, thrown together. To the side, a family is wading through their garage, which is under three feet of water. All around is a bizarre medley of debris. Most of it ...

Climate change caused by humans fuelled all the ten deadliest weather events of the last two decades, analysis has found.The ferocious cyclones, heatwaves, drought and flooding, including in Europe, have killed more than 570,000 people. All were all made more intense and more likely in a hotter atmosphere, the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group at Imperial College London said as it marked its 10th anniversary.Its research shows how scientists can detect the "fingerprint of climate change" in complex weather events - such as the recent deadly flooding in Spain."Climate change isn't a distant threat," said Dr Friederike Otto, co-founder and lead of World Weather Attribution. "This study should be an eye-opener for political leaders hanging on to fossil fuels that heat the planet and destr...