4.00 p.m. | Volunteers of environmental movements Fridays For Future and Extinction Rebellion hold a silent protest outside the Brazilian embassy in Mumbai to highlight the environmental hazard, wildfires and deforestation of the Amazon. Brazil is facing growing international criticism over its handling of the Amazon, 60% of which lies in the country. Fires in the Amazon have surged 83% so far this year compared with the same period a year earlier, government figures show.
1.00 p.m. | Vice President M Venkiah Naidu shakes hands with former prime minister Manmohan Singh as he congratulates him after taking oath as a member of the Rajya Sabha, at Parliament House in New Delhi, Friday, Aug 23, 2019. Singh, 86, has come back as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. He was elected unopposed as the BJP did not put up a candidate against him.
11.15 a.m. | This image taken from video provided by Hawaii News Now, shows Hawaiian Airlines Flight 47 on a runway after smoke filled the plane's cabin, forcing an emergency landing and evacuation, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019 in Honolulu. The 184 passengers and seven crew members on board were forced to evacuate the plane using emergency slides. Seven people were taken to the hospital with respiratory complaints.
10.00 a.m. | Traffic congestion is seen inside a tunnel after the George Washington Bridge in New York, U.S. was closed due to a bomb threat according to the Mayor, in this still frame taken from social media video August 22, 2019.
9.00 a.m. | West Indies' Kemar Roach bowls against India during day one of the first Test cricket match at the Sir Vivian Richards cricket ground in North Sound, Antigua and Barbuda.
8.00 a.m. | Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (centre), with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc reviews an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Morrison is on a three-day official visit to Vietnam.
