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They saw a man brandishing an automatic rifle and other weapons.

The French-American academic, 51, was in a hospital recovering from a gunshot wound.

The three American heroes who helped to prevent a heavily armed man from killing train passengers are now recipients of France’s highest honor.

El-Khazzani, 26, was tackled and tied up by five passengers, including three Americans and a Briton, averting what President Francois Hollande said “could have degenerated into monstrous carnage”.

England’s preparations for the home World Cup suffered a setback after they slumped to a 25-20 defeat by France that at least featured a stirring late fightback.

“It makes no sense”, he said of his son, who lived with him in Algeciras until he left for France in 2014. “He seemed to be a good person, no problems, and behavior beyond reproach”, Lycamobile chief Alain Jochimek told Reuters.

Molins said El-Khazzani notably watched an online video inciting radical violence minutes before the thwarted attack. But his explanation grew less and less lucid, the prosecutor said, and the suspect eventually stopped speaking to investigators at all. He said he rallied when he...

The three Americans and their British compatriot were made French knights and awarded the Legion of Honor medal, France’s highest decoration.

Burrell, who has started in England’s midfield during the last two Six Nations campaigns, has a lot of credit in the bank but the management team are also attracted by the X-factor that Burgess brings from his outstandingly physical performances on the world stage in rugby...

Sadler is one of the three American men who became instant heroes on Friday when they tackled and subdued a gunman on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.

Mr Stone was joined by friends US National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and Sacramento State University student Anthony Sadler at a press conference at the US Embassy in Paris.

The gunman – identified by French authorities using DNA as 25-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani – is detained and being questioned by French counterterrorism police outside Paris.

U.S. citizens Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler, along with a British Citizen and a French Actor, arrived at the French president’s residence this morning to receive the Legion of Honor. Photo of Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone. The men tackled and...

The gunman has been identified as 26-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani and is being questioned by French counterterrorism police outside Paris.

When a gunman opened fire on a 500-passenger train from Amsterdam to Paris Friday afternoon (August 21), it appeared the scene would end in a bloodbath. All three of us started punching him and grabbed him again and put him unconscious while Alek was hitting him.