An ax-wielding man who attacked several people on a train in southern Germany late Monday evening has been shot dead by police, regional police spokesman Lt. Fabian Hench said. The assailant, armed with a knife and an ax, was identified as a 17-year-old Afghan man living in Ochsenfurt, Bavaria, Bavarian Interior Minister...
A WOMAN is in hospital after a spate of shootings in an historic British county, last night. Police have deployed extra officers to Bedford after the separate attacks took place just hours apart. One woman was shot in the arm after shots were fired at at a property in Faraday Square at around 10pm. She was taken to...
A jaguar has been shot dead shortly after it was used in an Olympic torch relay at a zoo in the Brazilian city of Manaus, the army said. The female jaguar escaped its handlers after the ceremony on Monday and attacked a soldier, a spokesman said. Four tranquiliser darts failed to stop it and a soldier shot it with a...
Turkish border guards have shot dead at least eight Syrians, including four children, who were trying to cross into Turkey, activists say. A further eight people were injured, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group. The shooting took place at a border crossing north of the Syrian town of Jisr...
The Mexican government says a man fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was a Mexican citizen and it "deeply regrets" the incident. The Foreign Relations Department said in a statement late Friday that "Mexico has repeatedly said the use of lethal force in immigration control and border security should be...
Singer Christina Grimmie, who starred in NBC's "The Voice," was critically injured when a gunman shot her after a concert in Florida, authorities said. A man armed with two guns walked up to the singer as she was signing autographs Friday night and opened fire, Orlando Police spokeswoman Wanda Ford said....
A Georgia police officer reportedly shot a man in the neck late Tuesday night after responding to a 911 call, but at the wrong house, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. The bureau will conduct an independent investigation into the incident. Henry County Police responded to a 911 caller who described...
AN airman shot his commander in an apparent murder-suicide Friday at a U.S. air force base in Texas, a senior U.S. official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorised to publicly discuss the shooting at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Two handguns were found near the bodies of the...
An Israeli soldier has been detained after a video emerged showing him apparently shooting a Palestinian in the head as he lay wounded and motionless on the ground. The Palestinian was soon declared dead. He was one of two attackers who had earlier stabbed another Israeli soldier in the West Bank city of Hebron. The Israeli...
A proud, pro-gun mom was accidentally shot by her 4-year-old son — just a day after the Second Amendment-loving woman boasted about her tot’s shooting kills. The Florida boy found the loaded weapon in mom Jamie Gilt’s car Tuesday and shot her as they cruised down a Putnam County road, officials said....
A gunman is believed to be in a stand-off with police at a Sydney factory where a man was shot dead and two others injured. Police say the "delicate" operation in the industrial suburb of Ingleburn in the city's southwest is ongoing. It is unknown whether the gunman is holding hostages. The two injured men were...