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Mexican officials say there never was a 12-year old girl named "Frida Sofia" who texted for help while trapped inside the rubble of a collapsed school in the capital, as had been widely reported in the world news media.  They are confirming that 19 children and six adults died when the school collapsed during this week's massive earthquake.  But eleven students were rescued and treated at hospital for minor injuries.  The official death toll from Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 temblor reached 273 people, with at least 137 in Mexico City and the rest in surrounding states.  More than 2,000 people are recovering from injuries.

"The San Juan that we knew yesterday is no longer there," said Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz of Puerto Rico's capital, in the initial assessment of damage caused by Hurricane Maria.  "We're looking at 4 to 6 months without electricity," she added.  At least one person was killed by the storm, which toppled trees, shattered windows, and ripped roofs and doors off homes.  Officials fear the death toll will mount as they get further out in the hills and rural areas on the US territory, which was going through an economic crisis before the hits from Hurricanes Irma and Maria.  Donald Trump has yet to declare the island a disaster area but has made federal emergency aid available.  In Dominica, at least 15 people are dead and ten are missing. 

China reportedly ordered its central bank to strictly implement United Nations sanctions against North Korea, because of concerns over Pyongyang's repeated ballistic missile and nuclear weapons tests.  Sources told Reuters that banks were told to stop providing financial services to new North Korean customers and to wind down loans with existing customers.  There was no immediate confirmation from Beijing, but Donald Trump referred to the report while announcing new, unilateral sanctions against companies that do business with North Korea.

In Myanmar, a nationalist mob tried to stop a Red Cross aid shipment to Rohingya refugees; some threw petrol bombs and police were forced to fire their weapons into the air to disperse the rioters.  Another aid truck flipped off the road in Bangladesh, killing nine people.  Last month, Rohingya extremists launched an ill-advised attack on police stations in Rakhine state, where they live as a stateless Muslim minority group.  The backlash was massive and disproportionate, with security forces and nationalist mobs routing Rohingya civilians, women, and children and burning their villages; the death toll is unclear but feared to be terrible; more than 420,000 Rohingya are sheltering in refugee camps in Bangladesh.

Catalan regional leader Carles Puigdemont says he will press on with the 1 October referendum on seceding from Spain, which separatists believe is misusing the vast revenue it makes from the area around Barcelona without providing reciprocal services or representation.  The Constitutional Court ruled against the referendum, while police have been arresting Catalan separatists and confiscating their plebiscite materials.  Puigdemont said, "We will do it because we have contingency plans in place to ensure it happens, but above all because it has the support of the immense majority of the population, who are sick of the arrogance and abuse of the People's Party government," referring to locally-loathed Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.  In fact, polling shows that the 'plebiscite' has majority support, but independence is not a sure thing. 

The world's wealthiest woman has died aged 94.  Liliane Bettencourt was the heiress to cosmetics firm L'Oreal, and was worth a reported 33 Billion Euros - almost AU$50 Billion. 

Someone on Bere Island, County Cork, Ireland bought a sweepstakes ticket worth 500,000 Euros.  But, in a twist similar to that movie "Waking Ned", the ticket holder hasn't come forward.  There's only 180 residents on the island, so whoever it is must have a good poker face to keep it a secret.  "I never thought when I answered the phone yesterday that I would be told I had sold the winning ticket," said Mary Murphy, the island postmaster who sold the winning ticket.  She says she has only sold a couple of tickets to people who didn't live there, so she is convinced the winner is a local.  "Everyone has been ringing me now, the phones are going mad"; but even if she knew, Mary is legally bound to keep it a secret.