Law and crime

Tom Phillips, a man who kidnapped his three children during a dispute with their mother and brought them to a remote countryside in 2021, is fatally shot by a police officer after shooting and critically injuring another officer in the head during a robbery at an agricultural supplies store in Waikato, New Zealand. One child was taken into custody at the scene of the robbery while the whereabouts of the other two remain unknown. (CTV News)

• https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/a-new-zealand-father-who-evaded-authorities-with-his-3-children-for-years-is-shot-dead-by-the-police/

Politics and elections

Norwegians vote to elect all 169 members of the Storting using party-list proportional representation in 19 multi-member constituencies. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/norwegians-vote-labour-party-narrowly-favoured-win-re-election-2025-09-08/