"Ri-i-ide the night train with me..." the words echo along the corridor, bouncing off the white tiles and drifting up the escalator at London's Oxford Circus underground station.
The Rio Olympics are over, to perhaps a more collective sigh of relief than pure joy. The pre-Games fears of security lapses, excrement-filled waters, spread of Zika virus and unfinished infrastructure didn't quite materialize. The biggest scandal over the 17 days turned out to be an exaggeration/distortion/lie about an alleged armed robbery involving a decorated Olympic athlete.
For now, Russia is done using an Iranian air base to launch airstrikes against targets in Syria, Russia's defense ministry and Iran's official state news agency reported Monday.
Spain, Portugal, Italy and other sunny European nations have seen a big boost in tourist numbers this year as nervous travelers avoid places targeted by terrorists.
Typhoon Mindulle is roaring over Tokyo after making landfall earlier Monday, one of two storms which have lashed Japan over the past two days, killing one person and injuring 11. A third typhoon is predicted for later this week.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has named ISIS as the "likely perpetrator" of an attack that killed 50 people at a wedding in the nation's southeast.
The talk of the town at Rio 2016 may have been Usain Bolt's quest for the "triple-triple" but Britain's Mo Farah made his own piece of history by sealing the "double-double" on Saturday.
