A dog has been found dead after a number of shots were fired at a house on the northside of Dublin.

A man has been arrested in Pakistan over the fatal shooting of a pregnant singer as she performed at a party held by a wealthy landlord.

John O’Regan (48) left his home in Barnewall Gardens, Ballymun, Dublin 9 shortly after 8.30am on April 15 2014. He rounded the corner onto Gateway Avenue where he was shot by a lone gunman also travelling by bicycle.

A deputy sheriff is among eight dead in a shooting in Mississippi.

Officers shot and killed a 49-year-old man suspected of shooting seven people at an apartment complex near the University of California, San Diego, police said.

Former Russian MP Denis Voronenkov has been shot dead in Kiev in what the Ukrainian president described as an "act of state terrorism" by Russia.

A man has been shot in west Belfast.

A man critically injured when he was shot through a living room window was hit in the head in a hail of at least 20 bullets, police have said.

Ten people have been shot in New Orleans.

Gardai are investigating after a shot was fired at a house on the northside of Dublin last night.

A security guard is reported to have been stabbed and an intruder shot at the Los Angeles home of supermodel Miranda Kerr.

A group of around 100 demonstrators have gathered near the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte to protest over the shooting death of a man by a police officer.

A terrified US woman called her husband from the dark boot of a moving car to say she had been overpowered at a highway rest stop before she was found dead.

The Twitter accounts of an Ohio zoo targeted by online critics and trolls over the shooting of a gorilla have been taken down.

A police officer has died and another has been hurt after they were shot in San Diego.

Latest: US President Barack Obama said he condemns, in the strongest sense of the word, the attack on police officers in Baton Rouge.

A suburban police officer likely wouldn’t have shot dead a black motorist if he had been white, Minnesota’s governor has said, joining the national debate in the US over how law enforcement treats black people.

A man has been shot in both legs in County Antrim, in what police say was a "paramilitary-style shooting".

A masked man was shot dead yesterday after entering a movie theatre in southwestern Germany with what appeared to be a rifle and taking several hostages, authorities said. No one else was hurt in the incident.

A jaguar used in an Olympic torch relay ceremony has been shot dead after it slipped its leash and tried to attack a soldier, the Brazilian army said.

British Labour MP Jo Cox died yesterday after being shot and stabbed in the street outside her constituency advice surgery.

The husband of Jo Cox has released a statement following her tragic death.

Yesterday’s Florida attack follows the fatal shooting late on Friday of 22-year-old singer Christina Grimmie, who was killed after her concert inOrlando by a 27-year-old Florida man who later killed himself.

Emergency service recordings have revealed the confusion and panic after a three-year-old boy fell into Cincinnati Zoo’s gorilla exhibit.

US basketball star Bryce Dejean-Jones was shot dead after breaking down the door to a Texas flat.

US basketball star Bryce Dejean-Jones was shot dead on his daughter's first birthday after mistakenly going to the wrong flat in Texas.

The victim has been named as Gareth Hutch, nephew of Eddie Hutch and Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch.

A gunman fired shots early yesterday into a small crowd attending an open air concert organised by a local motorcycle club, killing two people and wounding 11 others before shooting himself to death, police said.

A one-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet that penetrated the car being driven by his father in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian police have said.

A man was attacked and wounded on the side of a road the day before he was to report to prison for a mortgage-fraud scheme in Oregon.

There has been another case in the United States of a parent being shot by their own young child.

A two-year-old boy has fatally shot his mother from the back seat of the car she was driving along a Milwaukee highway, relatives said.

A lucky black cat has made a “miraculous” recovery after suffering 30 separate shotgun wounds.

Police have urged witnesses to help them track down a gunman who shot a horse in the head in the Cotswolds.

The family of Jean Charles de Menezes have lost a human rights challenge over the decision not to charge any individual police officer over his death.

Update 10.30pm: The victim has now passed away from his injuries.

A man has been arrested by the PSNI, after a man was shot in the foot in Cookstown this morning.

A man suspected of slashing a woman in the face, fatally stabbing a store owner, and setting a homeless man on fire has been shot and wounded by police in New York City, authorities said.

Two women have been killed and a man wounded in a shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.

Latest: Gardaí believe that at least four masked men were involved in this incident. It is understood that they arrived at the scene in a Silver 3 Series BMW which was found abandoned on St Patricks Parade, Drumcondra a short time later.