Cop is killed, two officers are wounded and shooter is shot dead in 'horrific gun battle' near a California freeway after ex-con driver pulls out a rifle and opens fire when police try to impound his truck during traffic stop. The shooter, who has since been identified by his father as ex-con Aaron Luther, 49, of neighboring Beaumont, was shot dead by officers at the scene. Luther, who had previously served time in prison for attempted murder but was released more than a decade ago, opened fire shortly after the officer pulled over his white GMC pickup truck off the 215 freeway in Riverside shortly after 5.30pm. 😱

A man with a knife has gone on a rampage through central Sydney, reportedly stabbing multiple people. Police were called to King and Clarence Streets in the Central Business District, near Wynyard Station at about 2pm local time on Tuesday after reports of man wearing a grey hoodie covered in blood wielding a large knife. He could be seen yelling in the street as hundreds of people fled for their lives. A woman at the scene told @police_frequency in the Telegram: 'A crazy man is running around Wynyard with a knife stabbing people. My work colleague's boyfriend was standing right next to the guy who was stabbed. Has the world gone mad?' Footage shows the attacker being pinned to the ground by bystanders carrying milk crates. A woman has been found dead with her throat slit in a building close to the site of the attack and police are investigating if this is related to the man's rampage.😱

A Chicago veterans hospital avoided bloodshed yesterday when police tackled a shooter with an assault rifle without firing a single shot. The assailant fired 'eight shots' outside the Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs Medical Center building in West Chicago, before entering and firing more, according to eyewitnesses. Jeffrey Sallet, special agent in charge of Chicago's FBI field office said Veteran Affairs police 'ran towards the shots, resulting in a quick mitigation of the threat.' Though hospital staff and patients ran for the exit, 'nobody was hurt, there was nobody injured, there was nobody hit,' Sallet said at the end of a press conference. 'We avoided tragedy here in the city of Chicago today.'👮🏻‍♂️

Drama in the Pacific Coast as cocaine smugglers realize the game is up when Mexican military chopper locks its sight on their boat packed with 48 MILLION DOLLARS of the Class A drug. A group of cocaine smugglers were busted off Mexico's southern Pacific Ocean last week transporting a ton of cocaine on a high-speed boat. Astonishing video of the operation showed the moment a Mexican marines helicopter pursued a raft powered by two motors before it was stopped 75 nautical miles off the coast of the state of Chiapas on Friday. Authorities arrested seven men, including four Mexican nationals, who were transporting 1,200 kilos of cocaine worth $48million. 👮🏻‍♂️

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT! A bear ripped apart a man who was picking mushrooms in a forest, Russia. 🐻☠️😱

Taking the plunge! Hilarious moment a bride topples into the sea as she poses on a jet ski in her wedding dress. 😂 #lol #losers

An 11-year-old girl has been trampled to death by an elephant in India after it attempted to push its way into a family home while following the smell of food cooking. Amrita Tirkey, was at home with her parents in Majhkera Pahantoli village, Gumla, east India, when the attack took place at around 12.30pm on Saturday, reports The Hindustan Times. Three elephants from the adjacent forest are believed to have entered the village, with one, a young adult, believed to have smelt 'paddy' cooking in the family's home - causing it to attack.🐘☠️😱

The 21-year-old's body was found on the fourth floor of a Clarence Street building at 3.15pm on Tuesday, after Mert Ney slashed her throat with a knife. Ney, 21, was arrested after he was subdued by heroic bystanders about 2pm using chairs and milk crates in Wynyard Street, after he allegedly killed a woman and stabbed multiple people. Detectives are going through the pair's phones to establish the sort of relationship between the two. 👮🏻‍♂️

#Meanwhile in Australia ... The State of New South Wales was hit with a bout of cold weather at the weekend. Remarkable clips show the animals leaping through a field on the frosty ground, while others hop through thick the white blanket. 🦘❄️☃️

In one clip shown of a busy metro station in Istanbul, Turkey, commuters are using a static escalator like a normal staircase when suddenly, it springs into life, just as someone steps into a huge gaping hole that unexpectedly opens beneath his feet. 😱