"What in the World?" - Week of Sep 17-23, 2017

Citing the need to allow employees to take vacation time, and to increase its punctuality rate, THIS budget European airline announced that it would cancel 40-50 flights a day for the next six weeks.

Once again, a European capital has been rocked by a terrorist bombing, as a homemade explosive device went off in the subway of THIS city.

THIS North African nation abolished a 1973 declaration that banned Muslim women from marrying non-Muslims; the nation's president congratulated his fellow female citizens on being able to choose their spouses.

Lucia Topolansky, former left-wing guerrilla, current senator, and wife of ex-president Jose Mujica, became THIS Latin American nation's first female VP.

Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg's party retained power after parliamentary elections in THIS nation. Ms. Solberg promised continued management of her country's economy; this promise, along with her steady management of the nation's resources, helped her party retain its ruling majority, something no other conservative leader has managed to do since 1985.

THIS hurricane battered several Caribbean nations, killing 36 people, setting records for wind strength and sustained wind speeds, and becoming the first category-5 storm to hit the region in almost 20 years.

Once again, North Korea launched a missile that landed in the ocean off the coast of THIS island, Japan's northernmost.

At least 16 people, believed to be critical of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, have been arrested on believed to be working on behalf of foreign entities to undermine the monarchy. Even the son of a former king was rumored to be under house arrest, although those rumors have not been substantiated. Who is Saudi Arabia's crown prince?

Forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have shot and killed 37 migrants from THIS country who were protesting the deportation of four of their countrymen.

Facing threat of arrest over their support of an upcoming independence referendum deemed illegal by Madrid, 700 of THESE government officials enjoyed support from large numbers of Catalan separatists rallying in Barcelona.