Police officer Ashley Guindon is shot and killed in US state of Virginia after responding to a domestic incident, just a day after being sworn in.

Egypt will extradite a Frenchman to the Dominican Republic for allegedly aiding the escape of two pilots sentenced in a drugs case, his wife says.

At least four people are stabbed in scuffles between Ku Klux Klan members and counter-protesters in Anaheim, California.

Switzerland votes on whether to automatically expel foreigners who commit minor crimes, hardening a policy already in place.

Six British members of a stag party were detained for allegedly drunken behaviour when their Ryanair flight diverted to Berlin, German police say.

The Irish general election is set to produce a hung parliament following the poor performance in the poll of the existing coalition partners.

Allies of Iran's reformist president, Hassan Rouhani, win a landslide victory in Tehran, in the first elections since the nuclear deal with world powers.

The first major truce in Syria's five-year war appears to be holding for a second day, with some limited violations but no major breach.