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Two women, believed to be mother and daughter, have been killed in linked attacks in Ayrshire before a man died in a road crash.

NHS worker Emma Robertson Coupland, 39, was found injured in the car park of University Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock at 19:45 on Thursday.

Around 20 minutes later Nicole Anderson, 24, was fatally stabbed on Portland Street, about two miles away. Steven Robertson, 40, died in a road crash south of the town, at 20:30.

Police Scotland said it is not looking for anyone else in connection with the incidents — which led to a three-hour lockdown of the hospital — and there is no ongoing threat to the public.

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The US has extended the New Start nuclear arms control treaty with Russia for five years.

Announcing the move, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it made the world safer.

President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin reportedly discussed it by phone a week ago, and Mr Putin signed it into law on Friday.

The treaty had been set to lapse on 5 February, as the Trump administration had refused to approve the extension. It had sought tougher verification procedures and some inclusion of tactical weapons, as well as an expansion of the deal to cover China.

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A British-Iranian academic facing nine years in jail in Iran has told how he escaped on foot over mountains to start a new life in the UK.

Kameel Ahmady was convicted two months ago of collaborating with a hostile government. He denies the charge. He decided to try to flee while on bail and appealing against the sentence.

Mr Ahmady trekked over a mountainous border to escape the Revolutionary Guards — a journey he described as «very long, very dark and very scary».

Mr Ahmady was born of Kurdish stock in western Iran. But his parents sent him to Britain when he was 18 for his education.

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Two FBI agents have been killed and three others have been wounded during a shootout in Florida while serving an arrest warrant, according to the FBI.

The gunfire began around 06:00 local time (11:00GMT) in the city of Sunrise as agents were investigating a child abuse case, US officials say. The suspect has also been killed. Asked how many bullets were fired, a police official replied: «Too many to count.»

The gunfight took place at an upscale gated community north of Miami.

«A team of law enforcement officers were there to execute a federal court-ordered search warrant in furtherance of a violent crimes against children case,» a statement from the FBI said. The statement added that two of the agents had been transported to hospital and were in a stable condition. The deceased agents have not yet been named.

Four men have been charged after police discovered four grenades and three guns during a series of raids in Manchester.

Residents were evacuated from their homes after weapons were found in searches in Stretford and Wythenshawe on Thursday and Friday. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the items were seized from a man on Taylor’s Road in Stretford and from a property in nearby Milton Close.

The men, aged 36, 48, 55 and 63, face a number of drug and firearms charges. They are due before Manchester Magistrates’ Court later.