• Nick Miller
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Police have shot dead two men who cut the throat of a priest and took a small congregation hostage on Tuesday morning, in a town in northern France.

German police said a patient had shot at a doctor in a university clinic in southwest Berlin before shooting himself dead.

• Latika Bourke

Adam Whittington says he will soon return to Australia.

• Feisal Omar

Suicide bombers killed at least seven people in an attack on the African Union's main peacekeeping base in Mogadishu, Somalia on Tuesday.

• Philip Wen

The Australian government has issued a strong joint statement with the United States and Japan calling on China to abide by a Hague tribunal's ruling on the South China Sea.

• ANALYSIS
• Paul McGeough

In crisis mode through the weekend, the DNC response was two-fold: political embarrassment and blame for the Russians.

• Julie Power, Josephine Tovey, Saimi Jeong

Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders will address the first day of the Democratic Convention amid ongoing fallout from the leaked email scandal.

• Elaine Lies and Kwiyeon Ha

Residents of Sagamihara woke in horror to learn that a man had broken into a disabled facility overnight and stabbed residents as they slept.

• ANALYSIS
• Paul McGeough

The city of brotherly love saw scenes as chaotic and fraught as last week's Republican follies in Cleveland.

• Luciana Lopez and Amy Tennery

Democrats divided over the future of their party agreed on at least one thing at the DNC: Michelle is a star.

• Stephen Eisenhammer

Twelve Brazilian suspects arrested for discussing a potential attack during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro were "no joke", says prosecutor.

• James Mooney

A fisherman in the US has captured the dramatic moment when a big tiger shark takes a bite out of a hammerhead in Louisiana waters.

• Lauren Farrow

A statement on the South China Sea has highlighted the powerlessness of ASEAN, an expert says.

• Michael Idato

Bushfires have scorched the northern foothills of Los Angeles' edge.

• Jewel Topsfield

The spiritual advisers who will spend the final hours of life with those condemned to die in Indonesia's next round of executions have been told they will be carried out around midnight on July 29 to 30.

A knife-wielding man went on an attack in a home for the disabled killing at least 15 people, in the Japanese city of Sagamihara, according to reports.

• Lindsay Murdoch

The number of dead doesn't include drug users and pushers executed and left on the streets with cardboard signs "admitting" their guilt.

• Raphael Minder

A woman infected with the Zika virus gave birth on Monday to a baby with microcephaly in Barcelona, Spain

A classic car owned by John Lennon could sell for nearly half a million dollars when it goes up for auction.

• ANALYSIS
• Chris Zappone

The goal of distributing Democratic Party emails is not only to create disorder within the party but to shape broader US politics.

Perth millionaire Zhenya Tsvetnenko has been indicted by US prosecutors as part of a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud consumers by charging unsuspecting mobile phone users for unwanted text messages.

• Kieran Gair

Police say the shooting was not an act of terrorism.

• Jan Hoffman

To a child on the prowl for sweets, that brownie, cookie or bear-shaped lollies left in the kitchen is just asking to be gobbled up. But in states that have legalised marijuana for recreational use, notably Colorado, that child may end up with more than a sugar high.

• Melissa Eddy

A 27-year-old Syrian who blew himself up Sunday evening at an open-air music festival in southern Germany, injuring 15 people, had recorded a cellphone video in which he professed loyalty to the Islamic State.

• Eryk Bagshaw

A US newspaper has taken the unprecedented step of writing an editorial against a presidential candidate the day after he launched his campaign.