Commissioner’s briefing comes on back of heavy blows against gangland, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

Scarred by the horrors of World War One, army veteran Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) opts for self-exile as a lighthouse keeper as The Light Between Oceans (12A) begins. 

The teenager behind the deadly shooting rampage at a Munich mall had planned his attack for a year and chose his victims at random, investigators said.

A 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker received word that a friend had died in his home country days before he went on a rampage with an axe and knife on a German train, wounding five. 

Police have arrested a rape suspect in the US after a stand-off at a Baltimore Burger King ended peacefully.

Federal investigators are examining possible motives for the massacre of 49 people in a Florida nightclub - the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

Update: 6.05pm: SWAT teams are conducting floor-by- floor searches of the naval hospital.

This new enthusiasm by the gardai seemed like a great idea... at first.

A "suspicious" letter has been found outside a café in Copenhagen, the scene of an attack during a free speech event on Saturday.

The slain gunman behind two deadly shooting attacks in Copenhagen was released from jail just two weeks ago and might have become radicalized there last summer, a source close to the Danish terror investigation said.

The suspected gunman who carried out the deadly Copenhagen attacks was a 22 year old with a history of violence and may have been inspired by the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, Danish authorities have said.

Authorities in Britain arrested an 18-year-old man accused of computer hacking offences related to days of disruption on Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live services last year.

Security forces dramatically ended a three-day terror spree around Paris, killing the two al Qaida-linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical magazine, and an associate who seized a kosher supermarket to try to help them escape.

New South Wales police have confirmed three people, including the 50 year old hostage taker Mon Man Haron Monis, have died after a SWAT team moved in to end the siege of a café in central Sydney. The two other dead are a 38 year-old woman and a 34 year-old man.  

President Barack Obama vowed his administration would respond in a “much more aggressive way” to cases of Ebola in the United States.

WHEN an armed intruder jumped the fence and penetrated deep into the White House, it provided a field day for cartoonists and some members of the House of Representatives - who turned Julia Pierson, the hapless Secret Service director, into a figure of ridicule.

Everyone says they want their video games to be more realistic, but one online player got more than he bargained for when a SWAT team burst into the office he was playing in.

A drive-by shooting in New Orleans has left a man and an 18-year-old woman dead and five others wounded, three of them children.

Signs emerged of a reprisal sectarian slaughter of Sunnis in Iraq, as police said pro-government Shi’ite militiamen killed nearly four dozen detainees after insurgents tried to storm a jail and free them north-east of Baghdad.

As the Iraqi government bolstered Baghdad’s defences yesterday, the Islamic militant group that captured two major cities last week posted graphic photos that appeared to show its fighters massacring dozens of Iraqi soldiers.

The man accused of the Seattle university shooting has told police he wanted to kill as many people as possible before taking his own life.

Police said that they prevented an "unimaginable tragedy" by foiling a teenager’s elaborate plot to kill his family and bomb the junior and senior high school in the southern Minnesota city of Waseca.

A 60-strong SWAT team swooped on a teenager's family home in the US after a gamer he had just beaten online made a prank call to police.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was embarrassed of his grey hair for 'Sabotage'.

The customers of a well-known pub/restaurant were hoping for a lock-in as the storm raged, but as its owner surveyed the massive damage being inflicted outside his premises there was only one option: evacuation.

A suicidal gunman opened fire at a Nevada hospital, killing one person, critically wounding two others and sending police on a door-to-door search at the sprawling complex.

Authorities believe a man who fired multiple shots inside New Jersey’s largest shopping centre, and was found dead of a self-inflicted wound, did not want to hurt anyone.

A man suspected of firing multiple shots and causing a lockdown at New Jersey’s largest shopping centre has been found dead of a self-inflicted wound, authorities said.

Holy heartwarming escapade, Batman!

A policeman lifted a sheet covering the just-dead body of singing legend Whitney Houston and made “inappropriate” comments including saying “Damn, she’s still looking good, huh?” another officer claims.

A gunman has shot dead two police officers and the driver of an emergency rescue vehicle in Austria before barricading himself inside a farm building with a hostage.

At least 13 people died during a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard yesterday.

A 107-year-old man was killed in a confrontation with Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) officers on Saturday night in the US state of Arkansas.

In the United States, a 107 year old man has been killed in a stand-off with a US police SWAT team.

Applause for that Garda, please.

A gunman who barricaded himself with hostages inside a South Florida apartment complex killed six people before being shot to death by a SWAT team, police have said.

Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons and said more than 500 inmates had been set free in the operation, one of its most brazen in Iraq.

The suspect being hunted in the Boston Marathon bombing is in a boat stored in a Watertown neighbourhood, a law enforcement official says.

No explosives were found at the home of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects last night after a day that saw the city shut down.