At least 26 people have been killed and several buildings burnt down in Mpeketoni after suspected al-Shabab gunmen opened fire.
Dozens have been killed after gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, in an attack claimed by al-Shabab.
Aaron Alexis’s mother has said sorry to the victims caught up in the shooting spree by the former navy reservist.
A month before he went on a shooting rampage, gunman Aaron Alexis complained that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings.
At least 12 people have been killed in a shooting, where one suspected gunman was among the dead, while authorities search for other assailants.
Officials believe the shooter set a ‘trap’ by starting a house fire to lure firefighters into the home.
The ANC Mangaung conference dominated news this week, while the school shooting in the USA has re-ignited debate around gun control. Also, is this the end?
It remains unclear why Adam Lanza (20), who had no criminal history and whose family remember as nerdy and remote, gunned down two dozen people.
A gunman opened fire inside a US shopping mall, killing at least two people and terrorising holiday shoppers before shooting himself, police said.
A suspect accused killing three women at a salon, had a history of domestic abuse, with claims that he had slashed his wife’s tyres weeks earlier.
Two people have been killed and at least eight wounded in a shooting outside the landmark Empire State Building in New York City on Friday.
A gunman opened fire at a Sikh temple in the northern US, triggering a shootout which left him and at least six others dead, local police said.
A masked gunman has shot and killed 14 people, wounding 50 others at a showing of the new Batman film at a Denver movie theatre in the US.
One person has been killed and six others wounded, two critically, in a shooting at Toronto’s main downtown mall.
A man armed with hand grenades and guns opened fire in the crowded centre of a Belgian city, killing two people and wounding 64, officials say.
Friends and neighbours of Derrick Bird, who killed 12 people on a shooting spree in the UK, are in shock that a "normal bloke" could wreak such havoc.
