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Mother Teresa is expected to be officially canonised in Rome on September 4 as part the pope's Jubilee year of mercy.

President of World Bank Jim Young Kim said the Paris agreement left no one behind - protecting the poorest people and the most vulnerable countries by calling on all to hold the increase in temperatures to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

USGS reported the quake hitting at a depth of 33.9 kilometres.

Earnest said the US President is closely following the developments in Paris where more than 180 countries are trying to hammer out a deal on climate change.

In New Delhi, the US embassy's monitoring station recorded an air quality index of 372, which puts air pollution levels well into "hazardous" territory.

The recordings indicate that the plane was warned several times that it was approaching Turkey's airspace and asked to change course.

Turkey, like every country, has the right to defend its territory and its airspace: Obama.

Police were on their way to break up a big crowd at Bunny Friend Playground when gunfire erupted at the park in the city's 9th Ward, the police said.

Saturday's clashes injured as many as 17 protesters and 25 police personnel, of whom five protesters and two policemen are said to be in serious condition.

Najib said he had planned to begin his speech by talking about the achievements of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, of which he is the current chairman.

The Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), an independent organisation, said it had tracked 29 incidents.

Two Palestinian-origin men were stopped from boarding a flight back home in the US because a fellow passenger was scared to fly with them.

Malian troops reacted quickly. As people ran for their lives near the hotel along a dirt road, the soldiers in full combat gear pointed the way to safety.