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Paris shooting: Three dead and several injured in attack

The attacker targeted a Kurdish cultural centre and shot members of the local community. A possible racist motive is being investigated.

A suspect, aged 69, was quickly arrested and it soon emerged he had been freed from prison recently.

Clashes later broke out between police and a group who had gathered at the scene in the aftermath of the attack.

Footage showed people starting fires in the middle of the street and smashing car windows, with officers clad in riot gear responding by throwing tear gas.

John McAfee: Anti-virus creator found dead in prison cell

The Catalan Justice Department said prison medics tried to resuscitate him, but were not successful.

It said in a statement that "everything indicates" McAfee took his own life.

A controversial figure in the tech world, his company released the first commercial anti-virus software.

McAfee VirusScan helped to spark a multi-billion dollar industry in the computer world, and was eventually sold to technology giant Intel for more than $7.6bn (£4.7bn).

'Global terrorist' son of Osama bin Laden believed dead - reports

The US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, provided no further details, including when Hamza died or where.

President Donald Trump earlier declined to comment after NBC News first reported the US. assessment Asked if he had intelligence that bin Laden's son had been killed, Mr Trump told reporters: "I don't want to comment on it."

White House national security adviser John Bolton also refused to comment.

Separately, the White House declined comment on whether any announcement was imminent.

Glee star Mark Salling found dead aged 35

The 35-year-old actor who played Noah 'Puck' Puckerman in the American hit TV show Glee was found dead at the Los Angeles River in Sunland, near where he lived, TMZ reports.

Salling was awaiting sentencing after entering a guilty plea to possession of child pornography.

He was due to be sentenced in March.

The musical comedy-drama aired on Fox from 2009 until March 2015.

     

'Home Alone' actor John Heard dies aged 71

Heard was found dead on Friday in his hotel room in Palo Alto, California, according to celebrity news website TMZ.

The Santa Clara medical examiner's office confirmed the death. The cause is unknown.

Heard had reportedly been staying at the hotel after "minor back surgery" this week.

"Our officers responded with the Fire Department to a hotel in our city on a report of a person in need of medical aid," the Palo Alto police department said.

Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington found dead

He was 41.

A spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner, Brian Elias, said authorities were investigating Bennington's death as an apparent suicide at Palos Verdes Estates, a small coastal city near Los Angeles, but no additional details were available.

Band co-founder and producer Mike Shinoda said on Twitter he was "shocked and heartbroken".

"Chester Bennington was an artist of extraordinary talent and charisma, and a human being with a huge heart and a caring soul," Warner Brothers chief executive and chairman Cameron Stang said in a statement.

True Blood star Nelsan Ellis dies aged 39

Ellis, best known for playing the flamboyant Lafayette Reynolds in the horror-drama series, died after complications from heart failure.

"He was a great talent, and his words and presence will be forever missed," his manager Emily Gerson Saines told the Hollywood Reporter.

Ellis appeared in True Blood from 2008 until the series ended in 2014.

"We were extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Nelsan Ellis," HBO said in a statement on Saturday.