English

More about this topic

France

Slain French priest remembered in his Normandy town

Several thousand people gathered on Thursday in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, in Normandy, to pay tribute to Jacques Hamel, the priest murdered by Islamist militants this…

Russia

Moscow airport workers plead guilty over Total CEO's fatal jet crash

Two Moscow airport workers plead guilty to causing the jet crash that killed Total's CEO Christophe de Margerie in 2014.

USA

Charges dropped against police officers involved in death of Freddie Gray

US prosecutors in Baltimore have dropped charges against three officers awaiting trial over the death of a black detainee whose his neck was broken while being transported in a police van.

Syria

ISIL says it targeted Kurds in car bomb in Qamishli, Syria

A huge car bomb killed at least 48 people when it exploded near a Kurdish security forces headquarters on Wednesday (July 27) in the Syrian city of Qamishli.

ADVERTISEMENT

United Kingdom

Alleged gay serial killer facing seven new rape charges

China

[video] Siberian tiger kills woman at Beijing wildilfe park

USA

USA: two people dead, others seriously injured in Florida nightclub shooting

Police in Florida have confirmed that two people have been killed in a shooting at a nightclub in Fort Myers.

Afghanistan

First burials for victims of Kabul suicide attack

More than 80 people were killed and 200 injured in a suicide attack in the Afghan capital on Saturday. The twin bombing targeted a peaceful protest by members of the Hazara minority.

Germany

Germany: Syrian migrant kills woman in machete attack - police

A woman has been killed and two people injured in a machete attack in southern Germany.

Syria

Syria: hospitals targeted in besieged eastern Aleppo

Four hospitals in besieged eastern Aleppo have reportedly been hit by air strikes.

Germany

Munich gunman planned had been planning attack 'for a year'

The teenage gunman who killed nine people and wounded 35 more in Munich on Friday had been planning the attack for a year.

Germany

Shooting victims were not classmates of Munich gunman

Those gunned down in Munich last Friday were not former classmates of the killer, nor were they specifically targeted.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan mourns dozens killed in 'ISIL' suicide attack

A national day of mourning was being observed in Afghanistan on Sunday after a suicide attack in Kabul which left at least 80 people dead and more than 230 others…

Belarus

Journalist killed in Kyiv car bomb laid to rest

An award-winning journalist, killed by a car bomb in Kyiv, has been laid to rest in his native Belarus.

Germany

Mourners pay respects at scene of Munich shooting rampage

Mourners have been laying flowers and lighting candles at the scene of Friday’s attack in Munich.

Germany

Munich killer no links to any terrorist organisation

The teenage killer who murdered nine people in Munich and then turned the gun on himself was a loner obsessed with mass murder.

Germany

Munich struggles to come to terms with the killings

Munich is coming to terms with the trauma of the killings that left nine innocent people dead.

Germany

Ten dead after Munich shopping centre shooting, including suspect

Ten people have been confirmed dead after a shooting at the Olympia shopping centre in Munich, southern Germany, according to police.

United Kingdom

Fatal shooting in east England "not terror related" say police

Three people are dead after a shooting in east England, including the suspected gunmen.

Germany

Afghan youth attacks German train passengers with axe

Four passengers on a train in southern Germany were wounded, three of them seriously when a 17-year-old Afghan refugee suddenly attacked them with an axe and a…