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A list of six key players in Spain's deepest political crisis in decades.

Investigators believe Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock hired a prostitute in the days leading up to the shooting and were interviewing other call girls for information, a US official briefed by federal law enforcement officials said.

When attached to a semi-automatic rifle, a bump stock uses the gun's recoil energy to "bump" the trigger into the finger, causing it to fire far more quickly than possible if using one's hand manually.

It's all down to Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont. He's the one who decides when to press the "nuclear button" of an independence declaration.

The spending has come under increased scrutiny as North Korea's nuclear and missile programs have progressed and critics have questioned whether the Pentagon has developed missile defences that would work in combat.

"Our souls are stricken with grief for every American who lost a husband or a wife, a mother or a father, a son or a daughter. We know that your sorrow feels endless. We stand together to help you carry your pain."

Oxford City Council voted unanimously this week to recommend Suu Kyi's Freedom of the City award be withdrawn, citing deep concerns about the treatment of Rohingya Muslims under her watch.

Investigators were examining a $100,000 wire transfer Paddock, 64, sent to an account in the Philippines that "appears to have been intended" for Danley, a senior US homeland security official told Reuters on Tuesday.

Via its propaganda news agency Amaq, Islamic State has twice said that the Las Vegas shooter, a 64-year-old retired accountant, was a "soldier" of the group.

Following the Las Vegas shooting, in which a retiree murdered 59 people and wounded more than 500 when he sprayed a festival crowd with gunfire, gun-control groups and several Democrats warned that the measure would only make it more difficult to locate s...

Stephen Paddock was a peaceful man who moved back to Nevada, where gambling is legal, partly because of his fondness for video poker, said his brother Eric.

The referendum, declared illegal by Spain's central government, has thrown the country into its worst constitutional crisis in decades and raised fears of street violence as a test of will between Madrid and Barcelona plays out.

Boris Johnson, who helped lead the Leave campaign in the 2016 Brexit referendum, is caught on camera starting to recite Rudyard Kipling's poem, Mandalay, after striking a bell at the Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon.

Donald Trump took time from a Twitter rant against criticism of the federal response to hurricane damage in Puerto Rico to tweet: "Very important that NFL players STAND tomorrow, and always, for the playing of our National Anthem. Respect our Flag and our...

Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis accused the Catalan government of trying to promote an exclusionary system that runs counter to the goals and ideals of the European Union.

Four children were among the dead in the overnight strikes on the town of Amanaz, in Idlib province near the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.