Harvey Hits Houston

Emergency workers in Texas have rescued more than a thousand people from rising floodwaters after a huge storm that's also brought the city to a standstill. The Syrian army approves a deal allowing Islamic State militants to leave the border area with Lebanon where they've been fighting Hezbollah; and London's Notting Hill Carnival gets underway.

(Photo: Houston streets inundated by flooding from Hurricane Harvey. Credit: Getty Images.)