Five people were killed yesterday including a suspected gunman who opened fire at two military-related facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in an attack officials described as an act of terrorism.

A military hearing opened in the US today for a soldier accused of a deadly grenade attack on fellow Americans in Kuwait days after the start of the Iraq war.

A former US marine has been found guilty of shooting dead his wife, girlfriend and five-year-old daughter so he could start a new life with another woman.