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High drama in the US Senate with appearances by both Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and one of the three women whose allegations of rape or attempted rape could derail his appointment to the Supreme Court.  First, Professor Christine Blasey Ford gave emotional but solid testimony about the day she said that Kavanaugh tried to rape her during the 1980s, telling senators that what she remembers most is the laughing by a drunken Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge.  She told the senators she was "100 percent" certain Kavanaugh was her attacker.

Kavanaugh by contrast was angry, yelling and shouting his opening remarks at the Senate Judiciary Committee, claiming he was the one who was being wronged and the allegations "destroyed" his family.  He also spun a conspiracy theory that opposition to his nomination was somehow "revenge on behalf of the Clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups", referring to former President Bill Clinton and his wife former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  He also threatened the committee, describing the opposition to his nomination as a conspiracy to "blow me up and take me down" that had "sowed the wind for decades to come."

For the second time this month, India's Supreme Court pushed the law into the 21st century by knocking out laws leftover from the British colonial era.  The court ruled that adultery is no longer a crime, saying that the 158-year old law effectively turned women into the property of their husbands.  It's a political blow to the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party which claimed that overturning the adultery law preserved "the sanctity of marriage".  Earlier this month, the court ruled that that gay sex is no longer a criminal offence. 

The US Securities and Exchange Commission Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, accusing him of willfully or recklessly misleading investors when he said he was considering taking the electric car company private.  On 7 August, Musk brainstormed to his millions of social media followers that he might take Tesla private at US$420 per share, and that there was "funding secured".  It wasn't, and he backed off the plan.  Tesla shares plunged in after hours trading following the announcement.

An elephant trampled and killed a German tourist trying to take a picture of it in Zimbabwe's Mana Pools National Park.  Officials say they don't know what irked the elephant, but: "We are always asking people to stay away from wild animals; they should keep a safe distance," said Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority spokesman Tinashe Farawo.  

Chile has opened the extremely vast "Route of Parks" hiking trail through the rugged and beautifal Patagonia region to bring attention to conservation and boost eco-tourism to its southernmost regions.  The trail runs 2,800 kilometers from the city of Puerto Montt all the way down to Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of the long, thin country.  "We want Chile to be internationally recognised for having the most spectacular scenic route in the world, and thus become a benchmark for economic development based on conservation," said Carolina Morgado, executive director at Tompkins Conservation, the US foundation that bought up and donated the tracts of land to form 17 national parks.