In the Swiss Alpine resort of Kandersteg officials have been monitoring a deteriorating mountain peak towering above homes and hotels, after a glacier collapse and rockslide buried a nearby village.

Firefighters are battling wildfires in Turkey and France and more than 50,000 people have been evacuated as an early summer heatwave hits Europe.

A gunman ambushed and shot dead two firefighters in northern Idaho, and wounding another during an hours-long incident before the suspect was found dead.

Iran could transfer its stocks of enriched uranium to another country in the event of an agreement with the United States on Tehran’s nuclear programme.