Latest: A car and knife attack on a police officer and a high-speed chase of a moving van that left four people injured appear to be the work of a single suspected terrorist, Canadian authorities said.

Toronto

A man with a lengthy criminal record killed six adults and two young children before taking his own life in what a Canadian police chief called a “senseless mass murder”.

Police in Canada are investigating the deaths of seven adults and two young children at three separate but connected Edmonton-area crime scenes.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Alaska have found the remains of a whalebone mask believed to be about 3,000 years old.