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Attackers have set off two car bombs outside a police base in Somalia's capital before gunmen stormed inside, leaving at least seven people dead.

• Elaine Lies and Ami Miyazaki
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Voters in the Japanese capital elected their first female governor on Sunday, after two predecessors stepped down over scandals that clouded the city's preparations to host the 2020 summer Olympic Games.

• Devidutta Tripathy and Jatindra Dash
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At least nine people were killed when a three-storey building collapsed in heavy rains in a Mumbai suburb on Sunday, state media reported, and officials said 32 people were killed by lightning a day earlier in India's eastern state of Odisha.

• Lindsay Murdoch

Singapore has questioned how an Australian resident came to be collecting benefits while allegedly engaging in terrorism-related activities.

• Kieran Gair

Separate shooting incidents in the Texas capital of Austin has left multiple victims, police said in a message on Twitter early on Sunday.

• Yesim Dikmen

Turkey's President moves to bring the military and intelligence services under tighter political control after a failed coup.

A US skydiver with more than 18,000 jumps has made history, becoming the first person to leap without a parachute and land in a net instead.

• Jewel Topsfield

Trade Minister Steve Ciobo's first post-election destination is Jakarta, but his counterpart there has changed.

• Maggie Haberman

​Donald Trump suggests that the Muslim mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq was not "allowed" to speak.

• Anne Marie Roantree

A member of the Hong Kong National Party is disqualified from elections after he declined to sign a controversial new form.

• Kate Holton

British PM's decision to hold a second review of nuclear power project may strain relations with key trade partners.

Republican US presidential nominee was stuck between the first and second floors of a resort.

Sixteen people have died after a hot air balloon crashed in a pasture in Texas.

• Goya Dmytryshchak

When he first settled in Australia, Zulfikar bin Mohamad Shariff was known as a social activist.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Crete in Greece on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey reported.

At least 52 people were killed as floods driven by torrential monsoon rains ravaged India's eastern states, officials said on Saturday.

A former NFL player and his wife were shot and killed in the bedroom of their Houston home on Friday, allegedly by their 16-year-old son.

Belgium charged a man with planning to commit murder in a terrorist attack and released his brother after a series of house searches on Friday evening, federal prosecutors said.

• Neelima Choahan

There are three confirmed fatalities after a shooting in Seattle in the US state of Washington.

• Latika Bourke

One of the self-styled "child retrieval experts" who helped carry out the 60 Minutes child abduction in Lebanon says the operation went perfectly until it was "botched by an evil person."

• Fathin Ungku

A Singaporean man, who is also an Australian resident, has been detained for "terrorism-related activities".

• Kieran Gair

There is 'no hesitation' to brief Donald Trump over sensitive and highly classified national security issues, the director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr has said. 

• ANALYSIS
• Daniel Flitton

The alarm should have sounded a couple of months ago when Chinese commentators began quoting Vladimir Putin, that "if a fight is inevitable, go and fight first".

• Chris Zappone

A nationalist media outlet in China has lambasted Australia as a "country with an inglorious history" that doesn't rate being called a "paper tiger" following Canberra's decision to support an international tribunal that ruled against Beijing's territorial claims.

• Josie Ensor

A maternity hospital supported by Save the Children was bombed in an air raid in the Syrian city of Idlib on Friday, leaving at least five dead.