A €7.3m fine in its hometown of San Francisco marks another in a long series of difficulties for Uber, whose unorthodox business model has sparked protests from London to New Delhi, writes Olivia Kelleher

A raging wildfire in Yosemite National Park has rained ash on the reservoir that is the chief source of San Francisco’s famously pure drinking water.

The heavily-armed Egyptian immigrant who gunned down two people at the EL Al ticket counter of Los Angeles International Airport went there with a mission to kill, the FBI said.