Thousands of people took to the streets of cities in southern Europe on Sunday to demonstrate against overtourism, firing water pistols at shop windows and setting off smoke in Barcelona, where the main protest took place.

Special memorials marked the 10th anniversary this weekend of the Berkeley balcony tragedy in the US which claimed the lives of seven young people.

All seven people on a helicopter in northern India were killed early on Sunday when it crashed while ferrying passengers on a popular Hindu pilgrimage route in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, officials said.

Early on Friday morning, the skyline above Tehran was lit up as 200 Israeli fighter jets rained down high explosives on up to 100 key military and nuclear targets, both in the city and across Iran.