Arabian Business takes a look at the stories which made the world’s headlines during the past 24 hours.
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IN PICS: News of the world Sept 8
People make their way over the wreckage left on the streets by Hurricane Ike in Baracoa. Cuba raised its hurricane alert level to maximum for the capital Havana as deadly Hurricane Ike raged westward across the island towards the city of 2.2 million people, Cuban state television announced. (Getty Images)
Trucks are driven near the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, the busiest port complex in the US, on September near Long Beach, California. The federal judge tentatively denied the largest trucking association, the American Trucking Association, from blocking the new anti-pollution measures for the ports set to take effect on Oct. 1. The $1.6 billion Clean Trucks Program was developed after years of debate between drivers, city officials, and environmentalist. It targets toxic diesel emissions and bans all 16,800 pre-1989 trucks from the ports. The truckers sued the City of Los Angeles alleging that the programme is unfair to truckers, favoring large trucking companies over smaller independent contractors who tend to drive older trucks. About 40 percent of US imports pass through the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex. (Getty Images)
Some of the more than one hundred Iranian-American supporters of the Iranian Resistance and families of Camp Ashraf residents march on Sept. 8 in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, DC. The demonstrators are demanding continued US protection for 3,350 members of Iran’s main opposition, the People’s Mojahdin of Iran in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. (Getty Images)
A worker takes care of giant panda cubs at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on in Chengdu of Sichuan Province, China. Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding is aimed to increase the captive population of giant pandas and ultimately to reintroduce giant pandas to the wild, with the help of artificial breeding. (Getty Images)
Construction workers carefully deliver the new baptismal font to Salisbury Cathedral on in Salisbury, England. The font designed by William Pye is the first to be installed in the Cathedral for two centuries as part of its 750th anniversary celebrations on Sept. 28. (Getty Images)
Worshipers are heading up the slopes of a Hong Kong cemetery. Hong Kong cemetery officials took bribes to allow bodies buried in the overcrowded city to be dug up from temporary graves before they were fully decomposed, the city’s corruption body has revealed. (Getty Images)
People sit under a kite featuring an Octopus in Dieppe, northern France during the 15th edition of the International Kite Festival held until Sept. 14 gathering people from 38 different countries. (Getty Images)
Residents sit at the flooded bank of the Yangtze River in Wuhan of Hubei Province, China. Due to torrential rains, the water level at the Wuhan section of Yangtze River is approaching the 25-metre line that poses a flood thread. Since Aug. 28, heavy rains have killed four people and left three others missing. (Getty Images)
