Grounded and going nowhere

1. What were some significant happenings this week?

Big storms - both environmental and political - continued to barrel across the world. Mexico suffered a second major earthquake in a month on Tuesday, and Hurricane Maria lashed the Caribbean, wreaking devastation on the islands.

Total destruction was also what Donald Trump, in his debut at the United Nations General Assembly, threatened North Korea with, following it up with new sanctions on the regime for its ballistic exploits. In turn, "rocket man" Kim Jong-un called the US president a "mentally deranged US dotard" and said he would make Mr Trump "pay dearly", and "definitely tame" him "with fire". No schoolyard brawl, this.