USA: Maya Donnelly awoke to what sounded like thunder in the early hours of the morning, but dismissed it as a typical monsoon storm and went back to sleep.

GERMANY: The Pope’s comment that Catholics do not have to breed “like rabbits” has caused offence among Germany’s rabbit breeders.

A man wearing body armour shot six people, killing two, in the US states of Maryland and Delaware today before police arrested him, authorities said.