TV reviewTelevisionReviewPart potted history of the American family, part analysis of their impact, this docuseries is a neutral look at their lives. It’s also far less exhausting than following the rest of their TV output House of Kardashian is put together in such a way that it may well act as a Rorschach test. You might come away from this three-hour documentary series thinking that the Kardashian-Jenner family is a pioneering model of female-led entrepreneurship and empowerment – or that they are a late-stage capitalist nightmare, changing society for the worse, atop their gilded mountains of cash.

The ObserverMexicoViolence in Fresnillo between Sinaloa and Jalisco groups mirrors national trend – and critics say Amlo has failed to act María Zapata Escamilla woke to the sound of shattering glass. Armed men in military fatigues had burst into her home: they dragged her disabled husband outside, along with her 14-year-old son, still in his pyjamas. Then they drove away into the night. Two weeks later, her husband’s brutalized body turned up, along with nine others.

New East networkKyrgyzstanVisa-free travel and fossil-packed rock prove irresistible to mountaineers looking to explore unchartered terrain Despite its vast mountain ranges, fossil-packed rock faces and rugged beauty, Kyrgyzstan has struggled to secure a reputation as a first-class climbing destination. With its remote location and peaks named after Lenin, Putin and Communism, it has not been the obvious choice for western mountaineers. But as more established routes in Nepal and the Alps become over-commercialised and expensive, experts say climbers are increasingly heading to the small central Asian country that is so little known it was recently mislabelled Kyrzbekistan by the New York Times.

Six Flags theme park under water as flooding hammers Atlanta Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 22 September 2009: Torrential rainfall in the south-east US has claimed at least eight lives Tue 22 Sep 2009 14.24 EDT First published on Tue 22 Sep 2009 14.24 EDT A rollercoaster at Six Flags theme park is flooded in Austell, Georgia. Record amounts of rainfall resulted in flooding across the south-east US Photograph: John Bazemore/AP

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