Correspondents say he is an influential policy maker within the Republican Party who wants to cut taxes and overturn President Obama's healthcare reforms. Mr. Romney accidently introduced Mr. Ryan as the future president of the United States a mistake he corrected shortly afterwards.
Wildfires are threatening one of the world's oldest monarchistic communities near Mount Athos in Greece and the Spanish Canary islands of Tenerife and Gomera. From Spain, Hasgore Heart reports.
On Tenerife, the biggest Island in Spain's tourist archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, the authorities have moved 400 people from their homes as a precaution against the fire raging there. On the Island of Lagomera, a further 300 people have fled after a fire which had beensmolderingsince last Saturday flared up again overnight on Friday. But the authorities say they are hopeful that the fire will not engulfany more of Lagomera's ancient laurel-covered natural park which is a UNESCO world heritage site.
Italian tax police say the amount of cash and gold seized from people trying to smuggle money out of the country illegally has sharply increased this year. Police said specially trained sniffer dogs have played a significant role in seizing 50m dollars worth of currency, gold and silver at airports and frontiers in the first seven months of the year.
They cited the case of a Chinese businesswoman who had hidden banknotes worth more than 100,000 dollars in her underwearAnd more than 70 villages in central Nigeria have been inundatedwith water as floods thread through Plateau state. Emergency operations are underway in the south of the state where people have been forced to seek refuge in trees and on hill tops.