The attackers had demanded €160,000 (£138,000; $183,000) in bitcoin, but a national decision was taken not to pay.

At hospitals still offline, IT teams raced to restore systems from backups.

Most had relatively recent copies of their data – a key lesson. Regular backups allow organisations to recover more quickly.

Within five days, most hospitals were back online and operating close to normal, with no reported deaths or

"NHTSA is launching a special crash investigation into this crash," an agency spokesperson said.

A representative of Tesla, which is owned by trillionaire Elon Musk , did not respond to a request for comment on the crash or the investigation.

The fatal crash occurred around 20:00 local time (03:00 GMT) on Friday. The driver of a Tesla Model 3 "failed to drive in a single lane, left the roadway, and struck the residence", the police report stated.

Two years later, he provided invaluable career advice to Bruce Springsteen, who had recently signed to Columbia for the princely sum of $25,000.

Watching the musician perform an early showcase, Davis noted that he rarely stepped away from the microphone, and offered a suggestion.

"I said, 'Don't do it if it's not natural for you, but I know that the potential of the songs would lend itself to more physical movement on your part,'" Davis later recalled

Soma told the BBC the initial treatment she received at the hospital was far from satisfactory.

After she regained consciousness on 12 June, she told her husband and the doctor who treated her about the gangrape. "The doctor asked me while administering an injection, 'Were you raped as well?' I kept telling her, 'Yes, Madam, I was'," she said.

Ashok Kumar, the Civil Surgeon of Begusarai, however, told the BBC that the woman was brought in with complains of stomach

Leading Kenyan lawyer and former Justice Minister Martha Karua has been blocked from entering Uganda and ordered to return home, according to the Uganda Law Society.

Karua had just arrived at the Entebbe airport to join a team defending her Ugandan lawyer colleague Erias Lukwago, with whom they have been representing detained opposition leader Kizza Besigye, who is on trial for treason.

Lukwago was himself charged with a treason-related offence last week , and his bail hearing had been due on Monday.

On her return to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi,

The rising temperatures are being driven by hot air moving north from the Sahara desert, which is in turn trapping hot air over the affected areas, with forecasters suggesting the conditions could result in one of the longest heatwaves in recent years.

Scientists have said that recurring heatwaves are a marker of global warming, with Météo-France noting that of the 51 heatwaves recorded in France since 1947, 34 have taken place since 2000 and 26 since 2011