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One winning ticket has been sold in Indiana in the Mega Millions lottery, earning the jackpot worth $US540 million ($A721 million), the seventh largest in US lottery history, lottery officials say.

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon described violence in South Sudan's capital Juba as a "new betrayal" of the country's people.

• Mark Landler and David E. Sanger

President Barack Obama and European leaders tried to project a united front at a NATO summit meeting Friday, with Obama dismissing as "hyperbole" any fear that Britain's vote to leave the European Union would unravel the broader trans-Atlantic security alliance.

• Chris Buckley

Torrential rains and floods across the southern half of China have besieged cities and towns for days.

• Justin Huggler

Germany has adopted a sweeping set of reforms designed to integrate into society the 1.3 million asylum seekers who have arrived in the country.

• Inga Ting

Latest developments as five Dallas police officers are killed and seven injured during protests against the shooting of black men by police.

US federal authorities say a California man has been arrested on espionage charges for allegedly attempting to sell sensitive information used in military and commercial satellites to Russian spies.

• Farid Farid

Cairo: Ali al-Tamn, 23, just wanted to watch the penalty shootouts of the Euro 2016 final between Italy and England on a reliable Wi-Fi connection. It put him in the wrong place at the wrong time.

• Emily Woods

Reports of more police shootings are coming out of the US, but local police are not directly linking the violence to attacks in Dallas.

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• Nick O'Malley

A nation already struck with fear has again watched horror spread and blood spill across its streets.

• Lynnley Browning, Kartikay Mehrotra

Federal tax officials have sought a court order demanding internal corporate records related to one of Facebook's offshore tax strategies.

• Andrea Peterson

The move represents a potentially unprecedented use of robots to deliberately deliver lethal force in policing.

• Leonid Bershidsky

Thursday's shooting of 12 police officers in Dallas suggests spiralling violence: the officers were shot during a protest against the shooting of black men by police.

Michael Gove's elimination from the leadership race means the UK will have its first woman PM since Margaret Thatcher.

One of two candidates to succeed David Cameron as Britain's Prime Minister has been accused of exaggerating her banking experience to bolster her leadership credentials.

• William James

Britain's next prime minister, tasked with negotiating the country's exit from the EU, will be chosen by September 9 following a vote of the ruling Conservative Party's 150,000 grassroots members.

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• Georgina Mitchell, Josephine Tovey and Megan Levy

"Snipers" have shot dead four police officers and injured at least six other officers in Dallas, Texas during a protest over recent fatal police shootings in the US.

• Georgina Mitchell

Eleven law enforcement officers have been shot in Dallas during a peaceful protest rally.

• David Wroe

Former Labor leader Simon Crean has said there is a "strong causation" between the controversial 2003 Iraq invasion and the immediate terrorism threat that Australia faces today.