A rare and severe storm struck Phoenix, Arizona, bringing intense rainfall and destructive hailstones that accumulated across local neighborhoods.
Footage captured in the area depicted residents taking refuge inside a vehicle as large ice stones shattered the windshield.
Additional information is expected to emerge as local authorities assess the full extent of the damage.
Another 28 people are injured in the southern Karak governorate, and a manhunt is now under way.
Interior minister Laurent Nuñez defended blanket bans on demonstrations in some parts of France The French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has just issued a statement on a shooting in a town west of Paris this morning where one person was killed and four others injured. Police said a gunman had opened fire in Trappes, in the Yvelines, and neighbouring La Verriere. The gunman was later arrested in nearby Coignieres. Continue reading...
Facilities are being built in many countries, but Finland is the first to licence its underground storage facility.
Paris Saint-Germain's game has been postponed following a request by police amid a wave of violent protests in France.
Jepchirchir tested positive for banned blood booster EPO in a sample taken before her Sydney Marathon win in August.
Switzerland says patient is wife of Swiss diplomat and believed to have contracted virus while travelling in Uganda An Ebola patient in Nigeria is a Swiss woman who has not travelled to the epicentre of the current outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo and is believed to have contracted the virus while travelling with her husband in Uganda, the Swiss foreign ministry has said. The new information contradicts accounts from Uganda, which previously said the woman had travelled to eastern DR Congo, and will raise concerns about the ability of authorities to contain the outbreak, which is already the most geographically widespread in history. Continue reading...