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Forensics and security forces work at the scene after a mayor was shot dead in Mexico, the latest politically related killing in the country plagued by violence and organized crime. Guillermo Torres, 39, and his 14-year-old son were attacked at a restaurant in Morelia, the capital of western Michoacan state, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. His son survived. IMAGES
Police block a street in Aubervilliers, a Paris suburb, where a young man died after the scooter he was riding collided with a police car. A parked van also bears marks from the violent impact.. IMAGES
Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral gets a new golden rooster, part of its renaissance from the ashes of the 2019 fire that severely damaged it, and ahead of its reopening next year. The artefact was blessed by the archbishop of Paris Laurent Ulrich before being lifted into place on the cathedral spire 96 metres (104 yards) high, in blue skies and winter sunshine. IMAGES
Firefighters respond to a fire in an apartment building in Stains, on the outskirts of Paris. Three people are dead and eight injured, including a child in critical condition, according to the local prefecture. IMAGES
Police are on the scene near the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand train station in Paris after French police shot and wounded a woman who was making threats, a police source told AFP. According to witnesses the woman, who was completely veiled, shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is Greatest") and "made threats", the source said, adding that "police fired because they feared for their safety". After passengers on a suburban train alerted police, agents managed to "isolate" the woman at the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand station on the capital's south bank, the source said. IMAGES