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Gene Hackman's wife died from a rare infectious disease around a week before the actor died, medical investigators have said.

At least 12 people have been injured in a shooting in Toronto, police have said.

"It's a slow poisoning of people living here. The poison enters their bodies through the air weakening their immunity and medicines are not as effective as they should be," Dr Arshad Khan says. 

At least six people have died after heavy rains caused flooding in an Argentinian port city.

If the world has felt more dangerous lately, you're not mistaken. The number of conflicts has been rising. And from Ukraine and Russia, to Israel and Gaza, and Sudan - a common thread running through all these wars is they are waged by men.

Almost 200 people have died in clashes between Syrian government forces and fighters loyal to the country's former president Bashar al Assad, a war monitoring group has said.

Two women and a man have been found guilty of spying for Russia in a huge espionage operation from a rundown former guesthouse in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Six Bulgarians have been convicted of being part of a spy ring which carried out surveillance in the UK and across Europe for Russia.

Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes in eastern Australia ahead of the arrival of a powerful storm which risks "dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding".

Eurostar services are expected to resume between London and Paris on Saturday after the discovery of an "excessively dangerous" unexploded Second World War bomb.