A young American woman on a European trip was taken into custody after she allegedly threw a newborn out of a hotel window in Paris, killing the baby, authorities said on Tuesday.

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leaped onto the back of US president John F. Kennedy's limousine after the president was shot, then was forced to retire early because he remained haunted by memories of the assassination, has died. He was 93.

The main divide in American politics today isn&t between liberals and conservatives or left and right. It&s between those who believe in the system and those who don&t. And sometimes it really does feel like a matter of belief. It&s a visceral divide about whether basic institutions of American life - from the federal bureaucracy and financial markets to academia and the mainstream media - are working or broken. But it&s more than a feeling, and it&s not entirely new.

Thousands of people gathered in St Peter&s Square on Monday evening to pray for an ailing Pope Francis.