Rome (Italy) - Rescue workers are picking through what remains of Pescara del Tronto, a hamlet badly hit in Wednesday’s devastating earthquake (August 24).

Ascoli Piceno, (Italy) - Earthquake survivors and eyewitnesses reported scenes of devastation from the towns worst affected by Wednesday morning's 6.0 magnitude quake in central Italy in which at least 21 people are known to have died.

Rome, (Italy) - At least 38 people were confirmed dead and many more were missing after a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Apennine regions of central Italy in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The Afghan Taliban have recaptured a strategic district in the northern province of Kunduz, which they briefly overran last September before being pushed back by the Afghan army.

In Mexico, around a dozen suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel have been kidnapped in the tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta.

At least 12 premature babies have been killed in a fire at a hospital in Baghdad.

Kabul (Afghanistan) - As many as 80 people have been killed and around 230 injured in a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital Kabul.

Munich (Germany) - At least ten people, including the gunman, have died after a shooting at a shopping centre in Munich.

• No link to ISIL identified – police
• 10 dead, 27 wounded
• Attacker had an “obsessive interest with mass shootings*

Nice (France) - Footage of a motorcyclist risking his life to stop the Nice truck attack was seen all over the world.