Emergency services respond to four separate road collisions on the M50
Emergency services responded to four separate road crashes on the M50 motorway in Dublin this evening.
Seven vehicles were involved in a road collision on Junction 4 southbound.
A road collision also occurred at Junction 4 northbound, Junction 5 and Junction 6.
Junction 5 and 6 have been cleared while traffic diversion remain in place on Junction 4 southbound and northbound.
There are no reports of serious injuries.
AA Roadwatch say all the accidents have been cleared and traffic is moving well in both directions.
M50 NB J4 Ballymun. 2nd incident on opposite carriageway. Take care in both directions. @M50Dublin @DCCTraffic pic.twitter.com/WGLayCotHZ
— Dublin Fire Brigade (@DubFireBrigade) August 27, 2015
In Spain, Google Street View car targeted by tomato throwers
A Google Street Car was targeted by tomato throwers at Spain's annual Tomatina festival as it tried to capture before and after pictures of the festival in which thousands of people hurl tomatoes at each other in the eastern town of Bunol.
The car reached the area as the hour-long food fight finished with dozens of youths clambering on top of it and pelting it with tomatoes. The car's windows and mirrors as well as its cameras were damaged, Spanish media said, but Google said no-one had been injured.
"The Street View team went to the Tomatina festival where they were going to collect images after the tomato fight," the company said. "Unfortunately there were still people when we arrived with the car, which ended up trapped between the people and suffered some damage."
Student arrested after 'active shooter' claims
A Mississippi State University student was arrested after his threats to harm himself and others prompted alerts about an active shooter and a lockdown of the campus.
The student was later determined not to have a gun, university president Mark Keenum said at a news conference, even though the university had sent out warnings of an active shooter as soon as campus police learned about a student threatening to kill himself and others.
Within minutes, campus police took the male student into custody.
Students were told to seek safety and alerts continued for about a half hour. At one point, the university said there had been no reports of shots fired or any injuries.
Four in court over €12m London robbery
Four people have appeared in a London court in connection with the Hatton Garden raid, in which more than €12 million worth of goods were looted.
The two men and two women were charged with conspiracy to conceal, disguise, convert or transfer criminal property.
Nine other men are already due to stand trial accused of plotting the raid.
It is alleged they conspired together to enter Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in London's jewellery quarter, with the intent to steal.
Five killed in clashes in Turkey's restive southeast
Five people, including two children and a soldier, were killed in clashes between Kurdish militants and security forces in Turkey's restive Kurdish-majority southeast today, local officials and the army said.
Fighting erupted in the Cizre district of Sirnak province when Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels attacked a military outpost with rocket launchers, a security source told AFP.
Four Kurds, including two boys aged seven and 10, died of gunshot wounds in hospital, the source said, adding that six others, including three Turkish soldiers, were also wounded in the fighting.
