Its highlight is a massive open-air milonga, which will see over ten thousand tangueros pirouetting across the cobbled streets of central Buenos Aires.

BBC: World Tango Festival

The strong winds associated with Typhoon Melor have already left over ten thousand homes without electricity in Okinawa, Amami-Oshima and other southern islands.

BBC: Weather - Melor affects the south of Japan

Twenty thousand places in the last ten years compared with twenty thousand over twenty years.

BBC: Jack Straw MP. photo courtesy Jeff Overs

"I was in California over ten years ago and they had herds of eighteen to twenty thousand cows, " he said.

BBC: East of England farmers could be hit by 'super dairies'