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Police officers and ambulances are present outside Sydney's Westfield Bondi Junction mall, where "multiple people" were stabbed according to reports received by the Australian police. IMAGES
Police and firefighters guard the area around a post office in Japan's Warabi city late Tuesday as a suspected gunman holds an unknown number of people hostage. IMAGES
Police officers are seen outside Schemengees Bar & Grille, one of the locations where a gunman carried out a mass shooting that resulted in 18 deaths in Lewiston, Maine. Police has waged a major manhunt for the gunman. The rampage also left 13 people wounded, three of them in critical condition, with a wide area under lockdown as schools were closed, roadblocks erected and residents ordered to stay indoors. IMAGES
The front pages of British newspapers lead with news that Huw Edwards has been identified as the BBC presenter at the centre of revelations of sexual misconduct first reported by The Sun newspaper. On Wednesday 12 July London's Metropolitan Police concluded that no crime has been committed, but the BBC continues an internal investigation into potential inappropriate behaviour by the news anchor, who has been one of the BBC's most trusted presenters. In a statement to media, Huw Edwards's wife Vicky Flind says the star has suffered a mental health crisis and is currently hospitalised. IMAGES
The gunman who killed 10 people and wounded 10 others in a mass shooting at a dance club in California remains at large and has been described as an Asian man, law enforcement officials tells reporters in Monterey Park. SOUNDBITE
Robert "Bobby" Crimo III, who is suspected of killing six people and injuring dozens in a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in a suburb of Chicago, wore women's clothing to facilitate his escape, a police spokesman says in Highland Park, Illinois. SOUNDBITE