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Image copyright REUTERS Image caption New York police urged the public to avoid the area around the hospital at 1650 Grand Concourse A gunman has opened fire inside a hospital in the Bronx borough of New York. The man, said to be dressed as a doctor, began shooting at the 972-bed Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, reports say. At least three people are believed to have been shot, although other reports speak of multiple casualties and an ongoing situation. Messages on social media spoke of doctors and nurses barricading themselves inside the building. There are some reports of a fire in the building. New York's mayor has just been briefed on the situation and police are going floor to floor throughout the hospital looking for the gunman. The New York Police Department posted a tweet urging members of the public to avoid the area around the hospital at 1650 Grand Concourse. The New York Times quoted a fire department official as saying that three doctors had been shot. Their co

Image copyright FACEBOOK Image caption Ms Roberson, 18, was a recent high school graduate Pennsylvania police are hunting a man who shot and killed an 18-year-old girl in a "road rage incident". Bianca Nikol Roberson, a recent school graduate, was driving near West Goshen when her car veered off the road. Police responded to what they initially thought was a fatal collision, but then discovered that Ms Roberson had been shot in the head. Investigators believe another driver shot her as she attempted to merge into the same lane as a red pickup truck. The road on which Ms Roberson was driving narrows to a single lane where it joins another main route. "Her car started jostling with a red pickup truck - not actually hitting - but both of them trying to merge together," prosecutor Tom Hogan told reporters. "And then she was shot. The man in the red pickup truck shot her directly in the head." "This was a senseless and brutal act of viole

Image copyright AFP Image caption Ms Le Pen says the case is politically motivated French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been placed under formal investigation over an alleged European parliament funding scandal. The allegations were passed to French investigators who have opened a case. The parliament suspects some €5m (£4m; $5.4m) went to assistants of Ms Le Pen's National Front (FN) who were not working for MEPs but were actually engaged in FN party work in France. The National Front has denied the allegations. What will Le Pen do after her election defeat? In depth: Le Pen and the rise of the National Front Ms Le Pen, 48, has also denied any wrongdoing and has said the case is politically motivated. The alleged fraudulent payments - from 2012 onwards - concern her and several other FN MEPs. The allegations first arose on 27 April, ahead of the second round of voting in the French presidential election. Ms Le Pen was soundly beaten by Emmanuel Macron, by

Image copyright REUTERS Image caption The US says China can do the most to impose economic pain on Kim Jong-un's regime China has reacted angrily to a US decision to impose sanctions on a Chinese bank accused of laundering North Korean money. A foreign ministry spokesman urged the US to "stop wrongful actions" to avoid harming co-operation. The US announced the move, as well as sanctions on a Chinese shipping company and two Chinese nationals, on Thursday. It said the blacklisting was aimed at cutting funds to North Korea's weapons programmes. "We will follow the money and cut off the money," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told a news conference. But he said the move was not a response to Chinese inaction on North Korea, saying: "This is not directed at China, this is directed at a bank, as well as individuals and entities in China." Have North Korea's missile tests paid off? How advanced is North Korea's nuclear programme

Image copyright AFP / GETTY IMAGES Image caption Lionel Messi joined on the pitch by Antonella Roccuzzo and their two sons Football superstar Lionel Messi will marry his childhood sweetheart in his hometown in Argentina on Friday. The Barcelona player is returning to the city of Rosario to wed Antonella Roccuzzo, whom he met there before he moved to Spain aged 13. Argentine newspaper Clarín has called it "the wedding of the year" and even "the wedding of the century". Messi's teammates, including Luis Suárez and Neymar, will be among the 260 guests, it said. Many have flown in on private jets. Extra police officers have been drafted in to ensure security is maintained around the hotel, while a private security firm will work inside to keep out any potential gatecrashers. Around 150 journalists have received accreditation to enter a special press area, but will not have full access to the venue, said organisers. Where did the bride and groom meet?

Austria's Constitutional Court has ruled that the state was right to expropriate Adolf Hitler's birthplace, which will be remodelled and used by a disabilities charity. Former owner Gerlinde Pommer had appealed against parliament's vote in December to seize the property. The court said expropriation would help ensure that the building, in Braunau am Inn, did not become a neo-Nazi shrine. The authorities plan to transform it, to erase its associations with Hitler. The Nazi dictator was born in a rented room on the top floor of the building, near the Austro-German border, on 20 April 1889. He lived there for only a few months. Mrs Pommer - who does not live there - argued that the building could be transformed without it being seized by the state. Germany's  Spiegel website reports  that the Austrian government has been paying the elderly, ailing woman about €5,000 (£4,390; $5,700) a month in rent. Under the expropriation law she will get compensation. The

Image copyright AFP Image caption Simone Veil survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen The French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil has died at the age of 89. Best known in France for her instrumental role in legalising contraception and abortion in the 1970s, she went on to serve as chair of the European Parliament. Ms Veil, a liberal, later re-entered French politics, returning to the cabinet in the 1990s. President Emmanuel Macron described her as "inspiring" and the best of France. read more

Image copyright GETTY IMAGES Image caption Facebook risks large fines unless its community managers handle extremist content quickly enough Social media companies in Germany face fines of up to 50m euros ($57.1; £43.9m) if they fail to remove "obviously illegal" content in time. From October, Facebook, YouTube, and other sites with more that two million users in Germany must take down posts containing hate speech or other criminal material within 24 hours. Content that is not obviously unlawful must be assessed within seven days. The new law is one of the toughest of its kind in the world. Failure to comply will result in a 5m euro penalty, which could rise to 50m euros depending on the severity of the offence. In a statement, Facebook said it shared the goal of the German government to fight hate speech. It added: "We believe the best solutions will be found when government, civil society and industry work together and that this law as it stands now will no