A former University of California graduate student killed his estranged wife in Minnesota before carrying two semi-automatic pistols and a grudge back to Los Angeles, where he gunned down a young professor he once called a mentor before killing himself.

The man who carried out a murder-suicide at the University of California left a "kill list" at his home that led authorities to find a woman's dead body.

A fire tore through an 11-storey building housing a clothes factory and residential complex in Bangladesh's capital, killing at least eight people, including the owner.

Eyewitnesses of Crown Prince Dipendra’s massacre of his parents and seven other royals during a family dinner told government investigators in Nepal that the prince went on the rampage because of his parents’ opposition to his choice of bride.