The Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwe’s famed Cecil the lion broke a weeks-long silence in an interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune published on Monday.

The US dentist whose killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe fuelled a global backlash has emerged for an interview in which he disputed some accounts of the hunt.

THE investigation of a shooting spree that left nine people and the gunman dead on a Minnesota Indian reservation took a new turn when a source familiar with the probe said the tribal chairman's teenage son was arrested.

A “grinning and waving” high school pupil went on a shooting rampage on an Indian reservation, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his Minnesota school.