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The Apple company says it will investigate claims that 23-year-old Chinese woman Ma Ailun, a fomer flight attendant, had been electrocuted when she tried to answer a call on her iPhone, which killed her. The phone was plugged into a wall and had been charging.

A Killeen Texas police officer died early Sunday morning after a shootout with the suspect left him also dead, and AK-47 rifle was at an apartment complex, police confirmed. A second member of the Killeen Police Tactical Response Unit was injured in the incident that occurred at about midnight Saturday evening. Both officers were first reported in critical condition at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.

Asiana Airlines, embroiled in an ongoing investigation regarding one of its 777 airplanes which crash landed on July 6 resulting in three Chinese teenagers being killed, has said it planned to sue the U.S. television station KTVU for reporting racially offensive fake names for their pilots. In addition to the three dead teenagers, over 180 were injured as a result of the crash.