Truck drivers in Detroit in the US are being hailed as heroes after they assisted Michigan State Police to help a man who was contemplating taking his own life.

The FBI is looking at terrorism as a possible motive in the stabbing of an officer at the Flint, Michigan, airport.

An Afghan court convicted two Britons and an Indian on gun smuggling charges and gave them two-year suspended sentences following a one-day trial one of the men called a “circus.” An American was cleared.

Dozens of people were injured when a tornado tore apart a town in the US, levelling a church and a petrol station, witnesses and officials said.