Two passenger trains in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have derailed within minutes of each other, causing an unknown number of casualties, officials say.
It is is till not clear how many people have been killed of injured in the two derailments
Several coaches from both trains are reported to have fallen into a swollen river near the railway line.
One of the trains was on its way to Mumbai, while the other was travelling in the opposite direction.
Rescue workers and local people have rushed to the scene of the accident.
The Press Trust of India reported that it was not clear how many passengers the trains had been carrying or whether there were any deaths.
It quoted a railways official as saying some casualties were feared since the river below the bridge crossing is fuller than usual due to recent rainfall.
The NDTV station reported that 300 people have so far been rescued from the Harda crash site. It said the accident may have been caused because heavy rain had damaged the bridge, which in turn led to the derailment.
Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu tweeted: "Rushing emergency medical and other relief personnel to spot. Darkness, water creating hurdles but ordered all possible help. Trying our best."
Safety standards on India's massive state-run railway network, which operates 9,000 passenger trains and carries some 23 million passengers every day, has been an ongoing concern amid a spate of accidents.
Last July at least 18 children were killed along with their driver when a school bus was hit by a train in the state of Telangana.
A member of a new Syrian force trained by the U.S. military was believed to have been killed in clashes last week with al Qaeda's Syria wing, in what would be the fledgling force's first battlefield casualty, U.S. officials said on Monday.
A fighter from the Free Syrian Army's Al Rahman legion fires his weapon on the frontline against the forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Jobar, a suburb of Damascus, Syria July 27, 2015.
REUTERS/BASSAM KHABIEH
The U.S. officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity to discuss the incident, said the Syrian rebel was believed to have been killed during fighting on Friday with suspected members of Nusra Front. One of the officials described the information as preliminary.
The Pentagon declined to comment, citing "operational security reasons."
Friday's attack triggered the first U.S. air strikes to support the Syrian force. At the time, the U.S. military said the fighters repelled the attack, without citing casualties among the U.S.-trained force.
Defending the U.S.-trained fighters could become a growing job for United States, which has been waging air strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria.
U.S. officials disclosed to Reuters on Sunday that the United States has decided to allow air strikes to help defend against any attack on the U.S.-trained Syrian rebels, even if the attackers come from forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
U.S. President Barack Obama has long sought to avoid any direct U.S. military confrontation with Assad's forces, focusing instead on the battle against Islamic State.
The Pentagon, State Department and White House have so far declined to publicly detail the rules of engagement in Syria.
Still, the Obama administration appeared on Monday to play down the chances that Assad's forces would target the U.S.-backed rebels and noted that his military had not fired on U.S.-led coalition aircraft bombing Islamic State targets in Syria.
"So far, we have seen the Assad regime abide by the admonishment that we have offered to not interfere with our activities inside of Syria," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
The U.S. military launched its program in May to train up to 5,400 fighters a year in what was seen as a test of Obama's strategy of getting local partners to combat extremists and keep U.S. troops off the front lines.
The training program has been challenged from the start, with many candidates being declared ineligible and some even dropping out. Obama's requirement that they target militants from Islamic State has sidelined huge segments of the Syrian opposition, which is focusing instead on battling Syrian government forces.
Only around 60 have been deployed to the battlefield so far.
The past week has illustrated that, in Syria's messy civil war, Islamic State is only one of the threats to the U.S. recruits.
The suspected militants from Nusra Front attacked U.S.-trained fighters on Friday at a compound in Syria, which was also being used by members of a Western-aligned insurgent group, known as Division 30, officials said.
The U.S. officials who disclosed the death of the U.S.-trained Syrian fighter said Division 30 also suffered casualties.
The United States is also preparing to start launching airstrikes against Islamic State from bases across the border in Turkey, after securing a long-sought agreement with Ankara.
The Pentagon said on Monday that the U.S. military started flying its first unmanned, armed drone missions from Turkey over the weekend. No strikes have been carried out yet.
(Reporting by Phil Stewart; additional reporting by Julia Edwards and Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Susan Heavey, Doina Chiacu and Steve Orlofsky)
Germany's justice minister has sacked the country's top prosecutor, who had accused the government of interfering with a treason investigation.
The treason investigation sparked street protests over press freedom
Heiko Maas said he no longer had confidence in Harald Range, dismissing his statements as "incomprehensible".
Prosecutors are investigating whether the Netzpolitik website revealed state secrets in articles about plans to step up state surveillance.
News of the case sparked street protests last week over press freedom.
The outcry put the government on the back foot, with senior officials stressing that Germany was committed to press freedom and casting doubts over whether the articles constituted treason.
'Intolerable'
Earlier on Tuesday, in a rare public row between the German judiciary and the state, Mr Range said the government had asked him to drop an independent investigator from the inquiry, who concluded that one of the articles published did amount to a disclosure of a state secret.
The request, said Mr Range, amounted to "an intolerable encroachment on the independence of the judiciary".
He said that while the freedom of press was valuable it was not "limitless".
Analysis: Damien McGuinness, BBC News, Berlin
The dispute between Mr Range and Mr Maas has spilt into the open
This political row isn't a story of corruption or sleaze for many Germans. Instead, it is about freedom of speech and whether journalists who exercise that right can be charged with treason and face years in prison.
The investigation sparked national outrage and newspaper headlines screamed that press freedom was in danger. Meanwhile, Netzpolitik received donations of more than €50,000 (£35,000) — nothing like a brush with the law to boost a publication's profile and bank account, Twitter users joked.
Free speech and data protection are hot topics in Germany, partly because of the country's painful experience of totalitarianism during the 20th Century.
So any debate about surveillance and muzzling of the press in Germany is much more than simply an academic discussion of abstract civil liberties. People here are all too aware of the dangers of an overly powerful state.
But the justice minister responded at a news conference in which he called Mr Range's comments "incomprehensible and misleading".
He said his trust in the prosecutor's ability had "suffered lasting damage" and he had requested his dismissal.
Mr Range is 67 and was due to retire next year. Munich's chief public prosecutor, Peter Frank, has been named by Mr Maas as his successor.
The state investigation, into two journalists at Netzpolitik.org, is currently paused. The pair have called for the case to be dropped.
The two journalists under investigation have called for the case to be dropped
Their first story, in February, alleged that Germany's domestic intelligence agency wanted additional funds to increase its online surveillance programme.
A later article in April concerned the spy agency's efforts to set up a special unit to monitor social networking websites.
Critics have accused Mr Range of double standards, with the prosecutor earlier this year dropping an investigation into alleged tapping of Chancellor Merkel's phone by the the US National Security Agency over lack of evidence.
The claims shocked the public and strained German-American ties.
Media reaction in Germany
The media outcry over the treason investigation started almost immediately.Süddeutsche Zeitung points out that treason is a very loaded word. The law behind it has in the past been used to go after political opponents.
Die Welt says this case highlights unprofessionalism on all sides - calling it "silly season theatre". It says freedom of press, which many say was threatened, has been saved by an alliance of politics, media and society.
But questions about the independence of justice - not a minor issue in a constitutional democracy - remain unanswered. Der Spiegel calls Tuesday's developments a rebellion by the prosecutor, which could only end in his sacking.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says like any scandal, somebody had to be blamed. The ministers for interior and justice were safe but a fight between Mr Range and the head of the intelligence service culminated in his attack on the justice minister - a move that might seem deliberately designed to provoke his sacking.
Cecil the lion was a favourite with the tourists who visited Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.
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Before he was killed on 1 July, Cecil was a major attraction for visitors as he would allow vehicles to get close to him - and even followed this one allowing them to get close up images.Cecil led two prides containing six lionesses and 12 cubs along with another lion called Jericho.Following his death, his own six cubs will be killed as the new lion who takes over the pride will not allow them to live, conservationists say.The 13-year-old was recognisable because of his large size and distinctive shaggy black mane.He was being studied by lion conservation researchers at Oxford University and wore a GPS collar that allowed them to track him.Walter Palmer, a US dentist from Minnesota, is believed to have paid about $50,000 (£32,000) to hunt down Cecil.Trophy hunting is big business and in 2013, 49 lion head "trophies" were exported from Zimbabwe.It is alleged that bait was used to lure the lion outside Hwange National Park during a night-time pursuit. Mr Palmer says he thought the hunt was legal and was unaware Cecil was protected.
A piece of debris that experts believe could be from missing flight MH370 has arrived in Paris from the French island where it was found on Wednesday.
The debris was packed into a crate for the flight to Paris
The object, believed to be part of a wing, was flown to the French capital from Reunion in the Indian Ocean.
From there it will be transported to a defence ministry laboratory in Toulouse for analysis.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished in March 2014.
There were 239 passengers and crew on board.
Volunteers are searching for more plane debris on the beach in Reunion
Since then, an Australian-led search effort has been focused on a vast area of the southern Indian Ocean about 4,000km (2,500 miles) to the east of Reunion, a French overseas department to the east of Madagascar.
Experts have said the two-metre (6ft) object washed up on a beach could be a moveable piece of a Boeing 777's wing, called a flaperon.
A team from Malaysia Airlines has already arrived in Toulouse and French officials say analysis of the part should begin on Wednesday.
The military laboratory is expected to verify the serial number of the object and conduct further tests. Fragments of a suitcase found on the same beach are also to be examined.
The centre in Toulouse was also involved in analysing debris from the Air France flight AF447 which crashed on a flight from Brazil to Paris in 2009, killing 228 people.
Location of a flaperon on a Boeing 777
Missing Malaysia plane: What we know
MH370: Behind the tenacious deep-sea hunt for missing plane
Earlier, Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, said the agency was "increasingly confident that this debris is from MH370".
"There is no other recorded case of a flaperon being lost from a Boeing 777," Mr Dolan said.
However, he also said the discovery of debris might not help pinpoint where the plane went down.
"Over the last 16 or 17 months, any floating debris would have dispersed quite markedly across the Indian Ocean," he told AFP news agency.
Authorities believe the plane veered off course - for reasons unknown - and went down in the southern Indian Ocean. Its estimated last location was based on "pings" sent from the plane that were detected by satellite.
However, no physical evidence has been found and in January Malaysian authorities declared that all on board were presumed dead.
Australian officials and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak have said the location of the debris on Reunion was consistent with drift analysis provided to investigators.
Simulation of where debris in search area could end up
Mourners are gathering in Georgia for the funeral of Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of the late singer Whitney Houston.
Bobbi Kristina Brown was hospitalised twice with anxiety after her mother's death
The 22-year-old died in a hospice last Sunday, six months after she was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub.
She is expected to be buried beside her mother at a cemetery in New Jersey.
Houston drowned in a bathtub at a Los Angeles hotel in 2012 on the eve of the Grammy Awards ceremony.
Brown's funeral service at St James United Methodist Church in Alpharetta is closed to the public.
An initial autopsy found no obvious underlying cause for her death.
She was discovered face down in a bath at the Atlanta home she shared with her partner Nick Gordon in January.
The casket of Bobbi Kristina Brown arrives at the church in Alpharetta
Frosty relations between Mr Gordon and Brown's relatives came to a head in June, when her court-appointed representative sued him, accusing him of misrepresenting his relationship with her.
He was alleged to have transferred $11,000 (£7,091) of Brown's funds into an account controlled solely by him while she was in hospital but was never charged.
Brown began performing with her mother in 1999, singing duets of My Love is Your Love and recording Little Drummer Boy for a holiday album in 2003.
She was the only daughter of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown.
In a statement after her death, Bobby Brown said the family must find a way to honour his daughter's memory.
"Krissy was and is an angel," he said. "I am completely numb at this time."
Mullah Mansour was named as the new leader on Thursday, after the death of former head Mullah Omar was confirmed.
The Taliban have vowed to continue with attacks such as the one that hit the Afghan parliament in June
The new leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, has called for unity in an audio message, saying that the group will continue fighting.
But a Taliban spokesman told the BBC he had not been appointed "by all Taliban", going against Sharia law.
The audio message said fighters should unite as "division in our ranks will only please our enemies".
It also said that the Taliban would "continue our jihad until we bring an Islamic rule in the country".
The 30-minute recording - in which a crying baby is heard at some points - was released to journalists by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid on Saturday.
Some Taliban figures have accused pro-Pakistani circles of imposing Mullah Mansour, who is known for his support for peace talks, on them.
But in the audio message, Mullah Mansour dismissed peace talks as "propaganda campaigns by the enemy".
At least one Taliban faction would have preferred Mullah Omar to be succeeded by his son.
Another Taliban spokesman, Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, said those who elected Mullah Mansour had not followed the rules.
"According to Islamic rule and principles, when a leader dies, a Shura (council) is called, then its leader is appointed," he added.
Many are unhappy that Mullah Mansour (l) has been chosen to succeed Mullah Omar
Analysis - Inayatulhaq Yasini, BBC Pashto
It is the first time we have seen such differences among the group's leadership.
Finding a unifying leader like Mullah Omar will be almost impossible for the Taliban, so a split is likely.
Mullah Mansour's supporters have dispelled reports that military commander Qaum Zakir is opposing his election.
Zakir is an ex-Guantanamo prisoner, who has a base of support in Helmand province and will play a crucial role in the group's future.
The side which manages to gains the support of military commanders will win the majority share of Mullah Omar's movement.
