South Korea/US Military Exercises Begin

Joint U.S and South Korea military exercises begin today. The drills happen every year, although this comes at a time of increased tension between North and South Korea.

10 years have passed since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. We look at how the city has been re-built since the disaster which left over 1,800 dead.

And the Chinese writer Liu Cixin has won the 2015 Hugo Award for best science-fiction novel. This is the first time the prestigious prize has been awarded to a Chinese writer; Newsday speaks to Ken Liu, the man who translated the novel 'The Three-Body Problem', turning it into an international sensation.

(Photo: A South Korean soldier sets a barricade on the road leading to North Korea's Kaesong on August 21, 2015. Credit: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images)