The World Today: everything you need to know on August 23 Amidst the chaos, the number of Syrian children forced to flee their homeland reaches a million today, according to the United Nations. Update: Obama has told CNN this morning that the events in Syria are of "grave concern." Nawaz Sharif: arms race with India must stop In his first interview since taking office for the third time, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's new prime minister, has told The Daily Telegraph that the arms race between Pakistan and India must "come to an end." He also says that the two rivals should settle their decades-long conflict over Kashmir. "I think this [the arms race] must come to an end," he said. The full interview, in which he talks with genuine feeling about the need for reconciliation, can be read here. David Blair, The Telegraph's Chief Foreign Correspondent, breaks down the various issues Mr Sharif addresses, including Pakistan's tortured relationship with America. Bradley Manning: call me Chelsea In an extraordinary statement read out on NBC's Today programme yesterday, Bradley Manning, the American soldier sentenced on Wednesday for handing thousands of secret files to WikiLeaks, said he wants to live as a female and be known as "Chelsea Manning." The US army has said he will not be allowed to start hormone therapy while serving his 35-year prison term. Transgender advocates claim it should not be up to the US military to decide. Amanda Holpuch writes in the Guardian that the case has put the focus on transgender rights in prisons. The statement has also prompted debate about how people should now refer to Manning, writes Emily Greenhouse in The New Yorker. Do we stick with "Bradley" or do we acknowledge that "she" now wishes to be known as "Chelsea"? Twenty men have been questioned and one arrested in Mumbai after a female photographer was gang-raped while on her first magazine assignment. The attack revives painful memories of the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi last December. In the wake of the latest attack, Priya Dutt, a Congress member of parliament, said that such crimes are indicative of a severe social problem in the country, calling for a change in "mindset." The woman, reportedly raped by five men, is understood to be in a stable condition in hospital. A wildfire outside Yosemite National Park in California has more than tripled in size, prompting Jerry Brown, the governor of the state, to declare a state of emergency. There are 50 major uncontained fires burning across western America right now. tons of dead fish found in a lake near Rio's 2016 Olympic Stadium. The cause is being looked in to but a sewage leak is suspected. Billy Eichner @billyeichner How dare Ben Affleck ruin the integrity of a franchise where a grown man pretends he's a bat! Malcolm Moore in this morning's Daily Telegraph on how Bo Xilai's trial appeared to backfire on the Communist party. James Kirchick, the reporter removed from Russian TV for protesting the recent passing of anti-gay propaganda, explains his motives in The Washington Post. As news from Fukushima gets worse, Jason Motlagh writes in Time that the Japanese public want answers. US scientists claim they have built the world's most precise clock, made from the element ytterbium, with a ticking rate that varies less than two parts in one quintillion - or 10 times better than any other.