Two men remain in custody this morning in connection with the shooting of journalist Lyra McKee in the Creggan area of Derry on Thursday night.

Thirty-three inmates have died in a prison killing spree led by Brazil's largest gang, with some having their hearts and intestines ripped out, authorities said.

The jury in a Dublin murder trial has been shown CCTV footage of the accused carrying what appears to be a knife moments before the killing.

Iraq has executed 36 men convicted of taking part in the IS group’s massacre of hundreds of soldiers in 2014, officials said.

Police in India say they have arrested a shopkeeper for axing to death a couple from a lower caste for not promptly paying a debt of 15 rupees (20 cent) for groceries.

The family of American journalist Marie Colvin, who died in Syria in 2012, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in a US court, accusing the Syrian government of deliberately killing her.

A woman in Pakistan burned her 17-year-old daughter alive to punish her for marrying against the family’s wishes, the latest in a series of so-called “honour killings” that claim the lives of nearly 1,000 women every year in the conservative Muslim country.

An American serviceman has been killed in Iraq, US defence secretary Ash Carter said, describing it as a "combat death".

A university professor in north-western Bangladesh has been hacked to death on his way to work in an attack similar to other killings by suspected Muslim militants.

A transgender carer who suffocated her bedridden father as an “act of mercy” due to his multiple sclerosis has been jailed for at least four years.

A suicide car bomber dispatched by the Islamic State group struck near a police officers’ club in the Syrian capital, killing at least 10 people.

A woman charged with killing her housemate in Limerick has been remanded in custody.

The governor of the southern Mexican state of Morelos says the killing of a mayor was a warning by drug gangs, meant to convince other officials to reject state police control of local forces.

A cafe where five people were killed by a squad of Islamic extremist gunmen in the Paris terror attacks has reopened.

A South African appeals court will rule this week on whether to overturn a manslaughter conviction against Oscar Pistorius and find him guilty of murder for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

A US Marine has been convicted of killing a transgender woman in a hotel in the Philippines.

The daughter of an innocent teenager beaten to death with an axe has called on her father's killer to give themselves up to Gardaí.

Reeva Steenkamp’s mother has delivered the speech her daughter had planned to give at a South African school on the day she was killed by Oscar Pistorius.

Sinn Féin's President has hit out those who he says have "opportunistically seized on the killing of Kevin McGuigan".

Police in the North suspect current members of the Provisional IRA of involvement in the murder of a father-of-nine in Belfast.

Graham Dwyer's trial has heard documents called "Murder Inc" and "21 Techniques of Silent Killing" were found on his alleged victim's Macbook computer.

Police say three detained suspects have confessed to the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins who were found hanging from a tree in northern India last week.