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Five people were killed and about 40 injured in London on Wednesday after a car ploughed into pedestrians and a suspected Islamist-inspired attacker stabbed a policeman close to Britain's parliament.

The high court directed that the implementation of the ruling should be carried out in the second phase of the population census which would started from April 25.

British police said they were treating this as a terrorist incident.

Trump said that because of the new business climate jobs are coming back to the US.

Barack Obama's name is revered in his home state. But the Illinois House has rejected making his birthday a state holiday.

President Donald Trump's high-profile daughter Ivanka has been given an office at the White House and she will also have access to classified information, according to an administration official.

The US government is temporarily barring passengers on certain flights originating in eight other countries from bringing laptops, iPads, cameras and most other electronics in carry-on luggage starting from Tuesday.

FBI Director James Comey on Monday confirmed the agency was investigating possible Russian government efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election including any links between President Donald Trump's campaign and Moscow.

Blood tests have revealed that a gunman who attacked soldiers at Orly airport in the French capital on Saturday had consumed drugs and alcohol, a media report said on Monday.

Twenty students died after trees fell on them while swimming in a river during a storm in Ghana, emergency officials said Sunday.

A federal judge has rejected the US government's request to clarify his temporary order blocking President Donald Trump's revised travel ban.

The man killed at Orly airport on Saturday tried to snatch a gun from a female soldier "in an extremely violent attack" on her before he was shot dead, a French army spokesman said.

The Russian lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has approved a proposal to launch an investigation into US media organisations that operate in Russia, it said in a statement posted on its web site late on Friday.

The US and China pledged on Saturday to work together in addressing the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear programme, as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned regional tensions had reached a "dangerous level."

The first face-to-face meeting between US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel started awkwardly on Friday and ended even more oddly, with a quip by Trump about wiretapping that left the German leader visibly bewildered.

"Our clients are gratified to have received an apology from the highest level of the Canadian government," said Phil Tunley, lawyer for El Maati and Nureddin. "They and their families are pleased that their long legal ordeal is over."