A taxi driver whose car hit six pedestrians when he jumped a curb in a Manhattan shopping district on Christmas Day was having a medical episode at the time, New York City police said Thursday.

The taxi driver who plowed into a group of pedestrians in a busy shopping district in New York City on Christmas Day was experiencing a medical emergency, police said.

Members of Syria’s new police force have been killed in clashes in Tartus province, marking the most violent night since the ousting of the Assad regime. The Syrian transitional government, which is dominated by the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Fourteen members of the Syrian police were killed in an "ambush" by forces loyal to the ousted government in the Tartous countryside, the transitional administration said early on Thursday,

Forces loyal to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed 14 police members and wounded 10 others, according to the caretaker government, as the country experiences its worst violence since the autocrat’s toppling early this month.