Rome (Italy) - Since 1946 exhibitionists and athletes have been diving the 17 metres off the Ponte Cavour in Rome into the icy River Tiber to celebrate the advent of a new year.

At least 39 people are dead, many of them foreigners, with dozens more wounded after a gunman shot his way into one of Istanbul’s most iconic nightclubs, just over an hour after revellers welcomed in 2017.

The 44th International Emmy Awards have taken place in New York, and this time the big winners of the night were German and British television programmes with three Emmys each.