MANILA, Philippines —A tropical depression outside the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) is not expected to enter the country’s monitoring zone, while the easterlies and northeasterly wind flow are forecast to bring rains to parts of the Philippines, the state weather bureau said Tuesday. As of 3 a.m., the tropical depression was located 2,790 kilometers

NEW YORK— Actor Selma Blair was arrested after she was accused of injuring two flight attendants on a trip from Los Angeles to New York. She was also charged Monday with assaulting a police officer taking her to the hospital and a nurse after she arrived there. Blair, 54, was detained by police at around 11 p.m.

Jakarta, Indonesia—For weeks on end, parts of Indonesian Borneo have resembled an Armageddon landscape with masked residents immersed in a putrid, red-brown haze as wildfires devour peatlands near homes and farms. Burning slowly, mostly under the surface and sometimes for months on end, peatland fires are responsible for much of the dry season haze that this year