Gunmen wearing balaclavas ambushed a prison van in northern France to free a drug dealer known as “The Fly,” killing two prison guards, severely wounding three and triggering a major police manhunt.

France sent extra police squadrons to quell riots on the Pacific island of New Caledonia but also opened the door to a negotiated settlement with pro- and anti-independence groups.

A year after undergoing a world-first treatment for glioblastoma, Australian doctor Richard Scolyer remains cancer-free.

Testimony from the star witness in Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial has repeatedly tied a 2016 hush-money arrangement back to the ex-president.

Fierce fighting has been reported in Jabalia in northern Gaza after the Israeli military went back into areas where it said Hamas had regrouped.

A least eight people have been killed and about 60 injured after a giant billboard collapsed during a sudden storm in the Indian city of Mumbai, authorities said.

Russia has said its forces have entered the north-eastern border town of Vovchansk, near Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv.

A few thoughts about Russian reshuffles.

The Pacific Island of New Caledonia has been hit by days of rioting and looting as protesters rebel against a proposal by mainland France to amend the constitution.

At least four people are dead, 61 injured and more than 40 feared trapped after a massive billboard fell during a rainstorm in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, local officials said.

Firefighters in western Canada battled a large wildfire just outside the largely-evacuated remote town of Fort Nelson in British Columbia, a local official said.

India voted in the fourth phase of a seven-week long general election, as campaign rhetoric became more strident over economic disparities and religious divisions.