Dozens of people are hurt, eight of them seriously, when a regional train hits a tree uprooted during a hailstorm in the south of France.

Officials in Canada's Alberta province say they plan to ban spear hunting after an American posted a video of himself impaling a black bear.

A son of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was among Mexican criminals seized by gunmen at a restaurant on Monday, officials say.

Online news site Gawker Media has been sold to media firm Univision for $135m (£103m) in a bankruptcy auction.

Republican Donald Trump says initial evidence suggests the fatal shooting of a black man by police in Wisconsin on Saturday was justified.

More than 100 former employees from the Nauru and Manus Island detention centres sign a letter calling for asylum seekers to be brought to Australia.

A group of 13 North Koreans who defected from a Pyongyang-run restaurant in China to South Korea are released, South Korea says.

A Malaysian oil tanker is hijacked and taken to Indonesian waters, Malaysian maritime officials say.