The leader of India's main opposition Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, is discharged from hospital where she had surgery to repair a shoulder injury, doctors say.

Right-wing protestors dress in mock Muslim outfits and storm a church service on Australia's east coast.

At least five people die and thousands are rescued as "historic" flooding swamps the US state of Louisiana.

Part of New York's JFK airport closes after false reports of gunfire that may have come from Olympics excitement.

Members of the Chinese community in the Parisian suburb of Aubervilliers mourn a man killed by muggers amid fears they are being deliberately targeted.

Wisconsin's governor calls up the National Guard in case of more violence after a police shooting in Milwaukee.

Muslims are living "in the crosshairs of bigotry", New York's mayor says, a day after an imam and his associate were killed while leaving a mosque.

Three married couples die in a plane crash in Alabama, leaving 11 children behind, media in the US state say.