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Local police had warned the agents of a "suicidal" man travelling to Washington from Indiana and around midnight found his parked vehicle near 17th and F Streets.

Negotiators had boarded a fire truck lift and used a megaphone to speak with the man, but footage on social media showed the figure in a hoodie and baseball cap saying: "I will come down on my own terms."

A South Carolina who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat will be put to death by firing squad on Friday in the first such execution in the United States in 15 years.

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Thursday once again lost the upper stage of its massive Starship rocket in a fiery explosion, even as the booster was successfully caught in its orbital test -- a near replay of the previous attempt. Minutes after liftoff and booster separation, a live video feed showed the upper stage tumbling uncontrollably before the signal abruptly cut.

The unexploded bomb was found "in the middle of the tracks" about 2.5 kilometres from the station overnight during maintenance work carried out in the northern Paris suburb of Saint Denis, the national SNCF rail company said.

He was charged Friday with "endangering safety of (an) aircraft", "unlawfully taking control of an aircraft", firearm possession and carrying out a "bomb hoax", Victoria Police said in a statement.

Passengers overpowered a 17-year-old boy armed with a shotgun and ammunition on Thursday as he tried to board a plane near Melbourne.

While cyclones are common in the warm tropical waters lapping Australia's northern flank, it is rarer for them to form in cooler waters further south. Alfred would be the first to make landfall in that part of Australia since 1974, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

The stoppage of USAID funding has hit the Phelisanang Bophelong HIV/AIDS Network