Dylann Roof has been sentenced to death for killing nine black church members during Bible study in a racially motivated attack in South Carolina.

The Philippine justice secretary says President Rodrigo Duterte often exaggerates killings of criminals he supposedly carried out in order to send a chilling warning to lawbreakers.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs says the challenges posed by the past cannot continue to be left unaddressed.

An Army veteran killed by Dallas police after he fatally shot five officers amassed a personal arsenal at his home, including bomb-making materials, bulletproof vests, rifles, ammunition and a journal of combat tactics.

Human Rights Watch said a pattern of covering up police killings has thwarted efforts to curb violence in Rio de Janeiro’s slums ahead of the summer Olympic Games in Brazil.

A male nurse sentenced to life in prison for killing two patients with overdoses of heart medication is likely to have killed many more people at two German hospitals, tests suggest.

The German parliament has voted to label the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago as genocide, prompting Turkey to recall its ambassador to Germany.

Police in Bangladesh have arrested a home-grown Islamist militant over the killing of two gay rights campaigners amid a surge in violent attacks against liberal activists and other minorities in the south Asian nation.

Police have launched a manhunt for a soldier suspected of killing 11 people at a military barracks on the Cape Verde islands.

Italian police have arrested a nurse on suspicion of killing 13 patients, mostly in their 80s, who underwent surgery in a state-run hospital in Tuscany.

The deaths of 10 Protestant workmen in the North exactly 40 years ago should never be forgotten, the sole survivor of the IRA attack has said.

The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution strongly condemning increasing killings, torture and human rights violations in Burundi and threatening possible sanctions against those contributing to the violence.

Around 10,000 Afghans have taken to the streets of Kabul to show their anger and frustration over the brutal killings of seven members of a Shiite minority.

A man has driven his van into a crowd in Graz, Austria’s second largest city, killing three people and injuring 34 others.

A video released by the Islamic State group appears to show the killing of two groups of captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya.

Eccentric linked to three killings made admission in HBO show.