• Marika Dobbin and Nick Toscano
• 7m ago

An 11-year-old US boy is among the first publicly known victims of a suspected terror attack on crowds celebrating Bastille Day in France.

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• Lynette Eyb
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• Marika Dobbin and Chris Zappone
• 1h ago

What we know now about the terror attack in Nice that has claimed as many as 84 lives.

• Michael Evans
• 1h ago

As thousands celebrated France's national holiday late into the evening in Nice on the French Riviera, a white truck menacingly stalked a crowd of revellers, revving its engines before mowing them down from behind.

• Marika Dobbin

The driver of the attack that has claimed as many as 84 lives in the beachfront southern French town of Nice has been described as being of "Tunisian" background in local media.

There were bizarre scenes in New York as more than 30 people stumbled round a city street like 'zombies' after apparently taking K2, also known as synthetic marijuana.

• Aaron Blake

In the hours after the Thursday night attack on Nice, France, Donald Trump called for a major shift in US foreign policy.

• ANALYSIS
• Daniel Flitton

The awful carnage in Nice with a metal monster could inspire the next attack to be anywhere - Europe, the United States or in Australia.

As the day unfolded after the attack in Nice, world leaders added their condolences and promises of support.

Three Australians have been injured in a suspected terrorist truck attack in the French city of Nice which has left at least 80 people dead.

• Anthony Dennis

The latest horrific events in France have rendered the question "to go or not to go" and even more pertinent one for travellers.

A gunman killed 84 people and wounded scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said.

• Josh Dye and Georgina Mitchell

Three Australians have been injured after a truck drove into a crowd in Nice, killing 84 people. 

• Amanda Taub

How we are involved in events unfolding in Dallas, Baghdad, Orlando and Nice has serious political and social consequences.

• Daniel Flitton

An escape from the tiny Pacific island of Nauru deployed the kind of tactics that would hardly be out of place in a Cold War thriller.

• Gavin Jones

The number of people living in poverty in Italy has hit its highest level for a decade, new data shows.

• Helene Fouquet

France has been on maximum security alert for most of the past 19 months, hit by multiple terrorist attacks that have left nearly 230 people dead and hundreds injured.

• Roland Oliphant

A key IS military commander described as the terror group's "minister of defence" has been killed in Iraq in what would be a major symbolic victory for the US-led coalition.

French President Francois Hollande says the state of emergency will be extended by three months from July 26.

• David Brunnstrom and Denis Dyomkin

Countries meet aiming to boost military and intelligence cooperation against IS and al-Qaeda hoping to ensure the war in Syria won't last indefinitely.

Front pages from around the world of the attack in Nice which killed 73 people.