Peniel E Joseph sets last week’s massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in the context of a climate of denial in America over national issues of racial inequality

A man planted pipe bombs outside Dallas Police headquarters and sprayed the building with bullets during a wild street battle before being shot and killed in his van by a police sniper.

Randy Travis is in a "critical condition" after suffering a stroke.

FIRST, it was Ben Curtis in the 2003 Open Championship at Royal St Georges. Then came Shaun Micheel a few months later in the US PGA Championship at Oak Hill.