The incident took place at around 10.25am local time on Sunday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, which is about 50 miles north of Detroit. The suspect - identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, from the nearby city of Burton - was shot dead by police officers. What we know about the suspect He served in the Marines from June 2004 to June 2008 and was deployed in Iraq, Sky News' US partner network NBC News reported. Sanford drove a vehicle through the front doors of the church before opening fire with an assault rifle, police said. He then exited the vehicle and began firing rounds at people who were attending Sunday service, before deliberately starting the blaze, police added. The blaze has been extinguished, but authorities believe they will find additional victims inside the building. At around 8pm on Sunday (1am in the UK), Grand Blanc Township Chief William Renye confirmed that a further two victims were found in the remains of the church, in addition to two other victims who had suffered gunshot wounds. As many as three improvised devices were found at the scene, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation, NBC reported. According to Mr Renye, when gunfire broke out, people inside the church bravely put themselves at risk to protect the children. "They were shielding the children who were also present within the church, moving them to safety," he said. "Just extreme courage." Mr Renye said law enforcement officers arrived at the church within 30 seconds of receiving a 911 call. The suspect was "neutralised" in the back car park within eight minutes by a Department of Natural Resources officer and a Grand Blanc Township officer, he said. Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer said in a statement that "my heart is breaking for the Grand Blanc community" after the shooting. She added: "Violence anywhere, especially in a place of worship, is unacceptable. I am grateful to the first responders who took action quickly." Sheriff: 'Entire church is on fire' Genesee County sheriff Christopher Swanson said at around 12.20pm that the "entire church" was on fire, and confirmed that people who were at the church had been evacuated. Around 20 minutes later, the police department said the fire had been contained. US attorney general Pam Bondi confirmed the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were responding to the incident. US President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that "the suspect is dead, but there is still a lot to learn", before saying the shooting "appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America". He added: "PRAY for the victims, and their families. THIS EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COUNTRY MUST END, IMMEDIATELY!" Read more from Sky News:Penny Lancaster felt 'belittled' by Gregg WallacePeople 'may be right' to think UK already at war with Russia In the wake of the shooting and fire, the New York Police Department said it would deploy officers to religious institutions across the city "out of an abundance of caution". The incident occurred the morning after Russell M Nelson, the oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died aged 101. Shootings reported in North Carolina, New Orleans, Texas Meanwhile, authorities responded to a mass shooting at a coastal town in North Carolina late on Saturday, where three people were killed. Five others were injured in that incident, where someone opened fire from a boat into a crowd at a bar. Police described the incident as a "highly premeditated" attack. According to Sky News' US partner network NBC, Nigel Max Edge, 40, was detained by the Coast Guard and charged with three counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted murder and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon on Sunday morning. He remains in custody without bond, jail records show. Another shooting took place at a south Texas casino early on Sunday, with seven people shot and two killed. A woman was also killed, and three others were injured in Bourbon Street, New Orleans, early on Sunday after a shooting.

Never imagining the Americans would make them fight so hard on the final day in New York. What had been shaping up to be a record-breaking win instead turned into a desperate scrap to avoid throwing it all away. So ultimately, everything the American crowd did to antagonise the visitors backfired. A raucous crowd is the Ryder Cup's appeal. Why no away team has won the biennial since 2012 - until now. But the bitterness and toxicity were off the scale at Bethpage Black. Europe overcame it to win the 45th edition of golf's most prestigious team prize. After the putt that retained the trophy and a roar of relief, Ireland's Shane Lowry said: "I've been so lucky to experience amazing things in this game. "That was the hardest couple of hours of my life." It was tighter, tenser, and far more stressful than anyone imagined after Europe began Sunday's singles session with a 12-5 lead. Humiliation was avoided for the Americans after Donald Trump became their first sitting president to attend the Ryder Cup on Friday. POTUS saw Europe start to build a commanding lead. Maybe that's why the home crowd was so riled and rattled by Saturday. It wasn't just rowdy. This became the most abusive Ryder Cup in almost a century of matches. There is firing up the home crowd and what unfolded at the first tee - a course announcer hurling a vulgarity at Rory McIlroy. The tone was set for spectators goading the Northern Irishman with abuse about his private life and performances. "Guys, shut up," he eventually told hecklers. It was an understatement when he later described conditions as "really challenging". So by the time Day 3 began, and the foul-mouthed announcer had apologised and stepped down, maybe it was no coincidence Aretha Franklin's "Respect" was the morning soundtrack in the grandstand. But there was a new tactic to disturb and antagonise - the ducks given out with cherry fairway fizz drinks. Repeatedly squeaked as Europeans took their shots, McIlroy finally complained. The insults had crossed the line. Read more from Sky News:Team Europe win Ryder Cup in nail-biting finaleMore victims expected following Mormon church shooting and fire But eventually, as the hosts fought back, reeling off wins in the singles to put more red on the board, Europe made it over the line, scraping over the line with a salvage job. "It's been one of the hardest days I've ever experienced on a golf course," said Tyrrell Hatton after drawing the penultimate match to secure the win. "Those last five, six, seven holes were horrible." Instead of a record victory margin, 15-13 was the tightest since Europe won by a point at Medinah, Illinois, in 2012. The weekend produced more drama, more discord, and disturbances in New York than imagined by Luke Donald, the first captain since fellow Englishman Tony Jacklin to win back-to-back editions since the 1980s. "It's got to be the most stressful 12 hours of my life," he said. "We knew they'd be tough, we didn't think they'd be this tough." Beyond taunts aimed at him, when wife Erica was even hit by a cup of beer, where, for McIlroy, was the etiquette that is a virtue of golf? Breaking off from the celebrations, McIlroy spoke out on the hostility that crossed the line. "This should not be what is acceptable in the Ryder Cup," he said. "I think golf should be held to a higher standard than what was seen out there this week."

The woman, who is in her 30s, was attacked in the churchyard of St Mary's and the surrounding area of Banbury town centre in the early hours of Sunday morning, Thames Valley Police said. The force is appealing for a woman who tried to stop the attack and help the victim to come forward. Detective Sergeant Mark Personius said they do not have a description of the "good Samaritan" but encouraged the person to contact police as she might have "vital information that can help us piece together what happened". "This is a horrific crime and Thames Valley Police is conducting a thorough investigation to identify the offenders," DS Personius added. "The town centre would have been busy on a Saturday night into the early hours of a Sunday morning, therefore, I would also appeal to anyone else who saw or heard anything in the area between about 12am and 2.30am this morning to come forward." He said a scene watch is in place at the church to enable the force to carry out forensic examinations. Officers have also been instructed to carry out house-to-house and CCTV inquiries.

Flags. Patriotism. Determination. Change. Grit. Frustration. Optimism. The word cloud on Tuesday will come out just fine. And there's no doubt he's helped along the way by the faux fight with the King of the North. Government aides were laughing at yet another Andy Burnham story on Sunday morning - having renounced the Bond Markets, he's now denounced the renunciation. They're not worried. But the big lingering question is not about vibes and not about personnel. It's about whether any of it will actually work. Policy - not Sir Keir's strong suit - is absolutely fundamental to delivering the change he harps on about, and will ultimately determine whether this government succeeds. Follow the latest from our politics team Because the problem of this government, and its interminable obsession with who is up and who is down, is because until now Sir Keir has lacked a vision of change the country can get behind - something he pleaded guilty to on TV on Sunday morning by saying he would fix that this week. Without policy, it is hard for the people in Liverpool to have passion. Absent, so far, is any conversation about the biggest challenge facing this government - the £30bn black hole. The government is having three meetings a week about it, yet the prime minister has conspicuously nothing new to say about it and no desire to say it. The chancellor suggested additional growth from a youth mobility scheme. Not only is that policy not signed off, but the idea that it would touch the sides of the £30bn black hole is, as ex-Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) director Paul Johnson points out, for the birds. This is one challenge that Ben Nunn, Rachel Reeves's director of communications, will not have to worry about if he agrees to return to Number 10 after the budget to plug the gaps, as I revealed on the Politics At Sam And Anne's podcast. There will be some defence of the fiscal position in Reeves's speech on Monday. But the kindest explanation, more generally, about the absence of discussion about the black hole from a ministerial aide, was that it would come after conference season with "difficult" conversations with the Parliamentary Labour Party. But equally, why do today what you can put off until tomorrow? So then there is a question of the policy they do want to talk about: ID cards. This was announced on Friday, but the question asked by ministers is whether the party can withstand the opposition which is already looming on the horizon. Sir Keir sold the idea as a patriotic answer to part of the problem posed by illegal migration, and stopping people who come over here on small boats from taking jobs. There was no clear answer from the PM when pressed on the BBC on Sunday morning as to whether people who employ illegal migrants were already breaking the law. But the challenge on this policy goes deeper, as I also reveal on the podcast. I understand that inside government there is no idea how to begin to answer the question of how this will work. It could be based on the existing passport databases, the driving licence databases, the veterans card or visas system. But even more strikingly, I am told by a government spokesman that despite this being core to identity and sold as an answer to illegal migration, the Home Office is not in the lead. Instead, it will be overseen by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), now run by Liz Kendall. 👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne's on your podcast app👈 "We have some of the youngest staff in Whitehall," said a source on why DSIT was the right place to lead the policy. The Home Office passed on the opportunity to take the lead. None of this bodes well for a successful rollout. This is yet another massive policy that was not in the manifesto and bears all the hallmarks of being rushed. Then there is broader gap between Sir Keir's approach on immigration and that of the new home secretary. He called some Reform UK policies racist this morning, emphasising the dividing line is between legal and illegal policies. But writing in The Sun, Shabana Mahmood is talking about making things that are currently legal illegal - changing the Refugee Convention, changing the rules around indefinite leave to remain. Under her vision, maybe 400,000 people could be required to leave. These are huge numbers for a Labour home secretary to be thinking about. Removing numbers on this scale could make the dividing line with Reform UK much harder. How much is Sir Keir really across the new approach being taken by Ms Mahmood? How does the Reeves pro-EU youth mobility announcement conflict with the Mahmood approach in her speech and interviews? Who is reconciling competing ministerial interests? I am repeatedly told that Sir Keir acts as if the announcement of the policy is the moment he hands it over to colleagues, then only checks in months later, bemused why things haven't happened. Some people think he is very much the chairman of his government. Perhaps he needs to become more like an interventionist chief executive. Because ultimately if stuff doesn't work, the vibes will be out of control.

Mr Galloway and his wife, Putri Gayatri Pertiwi, were allowed on their way after being stopped under the terrorism act, the Metropolitan Police said. The former MP, 71, said he had his phone and laptop confiscated at Gatwick Airport, claiming officers stopped him "for no reason at all" other than to "gain access to our communications". Reports said the couple had returned to the UK from Moscow via Abu Dhabi. Mr Galloway detailed the incident in the introduction to Sunday's edition of his online broadcast Mother Of All Talkshows. "Not a single effort was made to show cause for having detained me and her with armed officers in public in an English airport," he said. Addressing viewers, he continued: "If they can arrest me under the terrorism act at an English airport, what hope have you got?" Officers questions ranged "far and wide, right down to Gayatri's famous fingernail painted in the Palestinian colours", Mr Galloway said. "They're too stupid to be anti-terrorism police, they're too stupid to be in MI5 if they think they can intimidate me, not even death will intimidate me." He then claimed the "one reason" they were detained was for officials "to gain access to our communications, to confiscate phones, to confiscate laptops, and to enter and burgle and see what they can do with our private communications". Read more:Man arrested after admitting he killed his parents40 killed at Indian actor's campaign rally Mr Galloway said he had travelled to the UK to give a speech at a London event set to attended by the Chinese ambassador. He added that he missed the engagement. The Met Police said in a statement on Saturday: "We can confirm that on Saturday September 27, counter terrorism officers at Gatwick Airport stopped a man in his 70s and a woman in her 40s under Schedule 3 of the Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019." The act gives police, immigration and customs officers the power to stop people in order to find out if they are "engaged in hostile activities that threaten national security or the economic well-being of the UK". Mr Galloway, leader of The Workers Party of Britain, lost his Rochdale seat at last year's general election, just months after winning it in a by-election.

Authorities have said Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, drove a vehicle through the front doors of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, before opening fire and setting the building ablaze. He used an assault rifle, officials said. At least five people were killed in the Sunday morning attack - including the gunman - and at least eight others were injured. Police believe more bodies may be found in the remains of the burned-down building. Grand Blanc is about 50 miles north of Detroit. Sanford was from the nearby town of Burton. According to Sky's US partner network NBC News, Sanford served in the Marines from June 2004 to June 2008. He was an organisational automotive mechanic and vehicle recovery operator, reaching the rank of sergeant, and was deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom from August 2007 to March 2008. Sanford earned several awards, including the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal. His last assignment was with the 2nd Maintenance Battalion at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. 'Suspected explosive devices' Sanford used an accelerant, believed to be gasoline, to start the fire, James Dier, of the Detroit Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said. Some "suspected explosive devices" were found, but it's not clear whether they were used to initiate the blaze, Mr Dier added. The FBI, which is leading the investigation into the attack, is treating the case as "an act of targeted violence", according to Reuben Coleman, acting special agent in charge of the bureau's Detroit field office. Authorities received a call about the shooting at 10.25am local time, and officers were on the scene just seconds later, Grand Blanc Township Chief William Renye told reporters. Sanford "was neutralised at 10.33am" in the parking lot of the church, he added. Officials did not disclose a motive. Read more from Sky News:Penny Lancaster felt 'belittled' by Gregg WallacePeople 'may be right' to think UK already at war with Russia Images showed a pickup truck, presumably driven by Sanford, rammed into the church building, with two American flags visible in the rear. Two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation told NBC News there were as many as three improvised devices found at the scene. Michigan police have urged residents to stay vigilant, as they have been responding to additional bomb threats at different locations in the community. Some of those threats were at other churches and have been cleared by state police.

Lancaster, who is also a TV personality, and is married to singer Rod Stewart, told Sky News' The UK Tonight with Sarah-Jane Mee programme that she also felt let down by MasterChef's production company Banijay UK. "I didn't feel like I was supported in that moment, I felt ashamed and belittled by the way Greg Wallace had treated me but equally I felt disappointed that the production company hadn't come to my rescue," Lancaster, 54 and a MasterChef contestant in 2021, said. "There is a long way to go, but just by people coming forward and being honest about their experiences I think will help in the long term." At the end of July, Wallace, 60, apologised after a report commissioned by Banijay UK, and carried out by law firm Lewis Silkin, found 45 out of 83 allegations against him were substantiated. Sir Rod Stewart criticised Wallace on Instagram in November 2024 and claimed he "humiliated" his wife when she was on the show. He wrote: "Good riddance Wallace... You humiliated my wife when she was on the show, but you had that bit cut out didn't you? "You're a tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully." Read more: Gregg Wallace speaks out after MasterChef sackingWallace 'deeply sorry' after more than half of allegations against him upheld Sky News has approached Wallace for comment. He has previously apologised to people he has hurt, saying in July that he knows he has said things that have offended people. He has denied a specific allegation of unwanted touching. The BBC referred Sky News to their statement from July, in which the corporation said: "Although the full extent of these issues were not known at the relevant time, opportunities were missed to address this behaviour - both by the production companies running MasterChef and the BBC. We accept more could and should have been done sooner. "We want to thank all those who took part in the investigation, including those who first raised concerns directly with the BBC in November last year. We apologise to everyone who has been impacted by Mr Wallace's behaviour." Banijay UK, the producers of MasterChef, told Sky News: "We are extremely sorry to anyone who has been impacted by any inappropriate behaviour by Gregg Wallace whilst working on our shows and felt unable to speak up at the time or that their complaint was not adequately addressed. "Ways of reporting concerns whilst working on our productions, protocols around behaviour and training for both cast and crew, have improved exponentially in recent years and we constantly review welfare procedures across our productions to ensure that they are as robust as they can be."

In June, UK defence advisor Dr Fiona Hill said that because of "the poisonings, assassinations, sabotage operations, all kinds of cyber attacks and influence operations," it was fair to conclude "Russia is at war with us". Appearing on the House of Lords' official podcast, Baroness Manningham-Buller said: "Dr Hill probably knows more about Putin than anybody else." Follow the latest on the war in Ukraine She added: "Since the invasion of Ukraine, and the various things I read that the Russians have been doing here, sabotage, intelligence collection, attacking people, and so on... Fiona Hill may be right in saying we're already at war with Russia. "It's a different sort of war, but the hostility, the cyber attacks, the physical attacks, intelligence work, is extensive." 'We were wrong' about Russia in 2005 Baroness Manningham-Buller served in MI5 for 34 years, becoming director general in 2002 before retiring in 2007. Speaking to the Lord Speaker's Corner podcast, she recalled meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin after the G8 meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland. "We all hoped that the past history of Russia wouldn't prevail, and, at the end of the Soviet Union, we would have a potential partner," she said, "and that was one of the reasons why Putin was with us for the G8 in 2005." The former head of MI5 added: "I met him when he came back to London. But actually, we were wrong in that, because Russia is extremely hostile to the West, and we've seen it in all sorts of ways. "I didn't anticipate that within a year, he'd be ordering the murder on London streets of [Russian dissident Alexander] Litvinenko." Mr Litvinenko, a former FSB agent, died in 2006, almost three weeks after drinking tea poisoned with radioactive polonium-210, a rare and very potent radioactive isotope. Before fleeing Russia and being given British nationality, Mr Litvinenko had accused Mr Putin of corruption. It is understood that he ingested the tea during a meeting with two Russian spies at a London hotel. Read more: The critics of Vladimir Putin who met untimely deaths Aid cuts 'leave space' for China The former intelligence chief also spoke about the West's soft power, recalling "the HIV work funded by the Americans in Africa" and noting that cutting foreign aid "means that we leave space for your friendly Chinese diplomat". She added: "If we withdraw from the world, they can move in because they have a strong economic base, so I think soft power... whether it's the BBC World Service, whether it's aid, whether it's de-mining, all contribute importantly to our influence in the world, as well as being of humanitarian importance." Read more from Sky News:Police investigate Indian actor's campaign rally after 40 deadAt least two dead in Mormon church mass shooting and fireEgypt's 'strongman' wrestler pulls ship using his teeth War decorated pigeon and reading upside down In a more light-hearted note, Baroness Manningham-Buller shared that she can read upside down - saying "it's a professional talent!" - and that her mother bred carrier pigeons for intelligence during the Second World War. Sharing the story of Mary Manningham-Buller, later Viscountess Dilhorne, the baroness said: "The pigeons were dropped in wicker baskets or little slings with parachutes to occupied France and (they) brought back messages strapped to their ankles, and she would then ring the War Office and somebody would come and collect the message. "It was a story in our family, which I always thought must be apocryphal, that one of her pigeons had brought back information on the V-2 (rocket) site at Peenemunde, which was then bombed by the RAF. "But I subsequently discovered that there was a record of this, and it was true, and her pigeon got the Dickin Medal for that. "I rather like that only the British give medals to animals."

With more than 99% of votes counted, Moldova's ruling party, the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), had a share of 49.99%, versus 24.28% for the Patriotic Bloc, which opposes closer ties with Brussels. Holding a majority in the 101-seat chamber would allow PAS to keep pushing for its goal of joining the EU. If it falls short, it will have to try to form a coalition with smaller parties. The Patriotic Bloc aims to win power and steer the nation - a former Soviet republic - away from closer ties with Brussels and the EU. Moldova's pro-Western president Maia Sandu, who wants the country to join the EU by 2030, reiterated long-held claims that Russia has interfered with elections. After casting her ballot, she said: "Russia poses a danger to our democracies. Our democracy is young and fragile, but that does not mean that states with longer democracies are not in danger. "We want to live in a democracy." In the build up to the election, Prime Minister Dorin Recean warned that Russia was spending "hundreds of millions" of euros as part of an alleged hybrid war to try to seize power, which he described as "the final battle for our country's future". PAS leaders, including the party's leader Igor Grosu, have called vote the most consequential in Moldova since independence. Moscow has always denied meddling and says the government is spreading anti-Russian hysteria to win votes. Read more from Sky News: 'I'm not so careful with what I say' - Trump's jaw-dropping weekThis was the most abusive Ryder Cup in almost a century of matches Election day itself was marked by a string of incidents, ranging from bomb threats at multiple polling stations abroad to cyber attacks on electoral and government infrastructure. Police also detained three people suspected of plotting to cause unrest after the vote. French President Emmanuel Macron hailed the apparent results of the elections as he said on X: "Despite attempts at interference and pressure, the choice of Moldovan citizens has been strongly affirmed. "France stands alongside Moldova in its European project and its drive for freedom and sovereignty." EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: "Moldova, you've done it again." Why would Russia want to interfere? Moldova is landlocked between Ukraine and Romania. The country of about 2.5 million people has spent recent years on a Westward path and gained candidate status to the EU in 2022, shortly after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. If Moldova becomes a permanent EU member, it would mean a distancing from Moscow, as the EU has offered support to Ukraine and has put various sanctions in place against Russia. However, candidate status does not guarantee a country membership to the EU. In order for a country to become a full member, candidates must adopt democratic norms and undertake reforms to meet EU rules, regulations and standards. All EU governments then have to agree before that country can be admitted as an EU member.

The chancellor will make the case for a society founded on "contribution" in her speech at Labour's annual conference in Liverpool today. She is expected to confirm plans for every young person who has received universal credit (UC) for 18 months without "earning or learning" to be guaranteed an offer of paid work. Labour conference in Liverpool - follow live updates Those who refuse to take up jobs without a "reasonable excuse" will face sanctions such as losing their benefits, it is understood. The guarantee, which will be overseen by Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden, forms part of a pledge of "nothing less than the abolition of long-term youth unemployment". Ms Reeves is expected to say: "I believe in a Britain founded on contribution - where we do our duty for each other, and where hard work is matched by fair reward. "I believe in a Britain based on opportunity - where ordinary kids can flourish, unhindered by their background. "And I believe that Britain's real wealth is found not only in the success of the fortunate few, but in the talents of all our people, in every part of our great country." It comes in the wake of concerns among some Labour members that the government needs to offer voters a clearer vision of its agenda. Sir Keir Starmer has previously avoided using buzzwords to define his politics, but thinktank Labour Together published a paper last week in which it argued the concept of contribution should be put at the heart of policymaking. Read more:Burnham warns Labour not to 'underestimate the peril' party is inLabour promise changes to indefinite leave to remainMahmood vows migration law reforms Ms Reeves is expected to add: "We won't leave a generation of young people to languish without prospects - denied the dignity, the security and the ladders of opportunity that good work provides. "Just as the last Labour government, with its new deal for young people, abolished long-term youth unemployment I can commit this government to nothing less than the abolition of long-term youth unemployment. "We've done it before and we'll do it again." 👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne's on your podcast app👈 Sir Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, accused Labour of "contradictions" within their policies. He said: "Rachel Reeves says she wants to abolish youth unemployment - yet in her very first budget, she introduced a £25bn jobs tax that made it more expensive for businesses to hire, especially young people. "That's the contradiction at the heart of Labour's plan: they talk about opportunity, but their policies kill jobs. "Since Labour came to power, unemployment is up. Business confidence is down. And now Reeves is trying to fix a problem she created - while pointing the finger of blame, as she so often does, at everyone else." Chancellor Rachel Reeves will be speaking to Sky News at 7.15am this morning ahead of her speech at the conference at midday.