An opportunity to target a gunman who ended up killing 21 people at a Texas school was reportedly passed up by police concerned at children in the line of fire.
Angry bank customers who travelled to a city in central China to retrieve their savings from troubled rural banks have been stopped by a health app on their mobile phone.
Members of South Korean band BTS have denied they are going to separate, two days after announcing in a video that its members are going to focus on individual projects and park their activities as a group.
A 70-year-old man has shot and killed three elderly people with a handgun during a dinner at an Alabama church where he occasionally attended services, police say.
The federal government says it will continue to offer consular assistance to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the United Kingdom's decision that his extradition to the United States can proceed.
The UAE has banned the Pixar animated feature Lightyear from showing in movie theatres amid reports the film includes a kiss between two female characters.
Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Washington and at rallies across the US to call for laws limiting gun ownership after recent mass shootings.
A person who was trying to enter an Alabama primary school where a summer program was being held has been shot dead by a police officer, authorities say.
Ukrainian forces claim to have pushed forward in intense street fighting in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk but say their only hope to turn the tide is more artillery to offset Russia's massive firepower.
Two Britons and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine have been sentenced to death by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, one of Russia's proxies in eastern Ukraine, Russian news agencies report.
A 29-year-old man has driven into a crowd of people in Berlin, killing a teacher and injuring 14 of her students, as his car twice veered onto a pavement in a popular shopping district, officials say.
Russia has struck Ukraine's capital Kyiv with missiles for the first time in more than a month, while Ukrainian officials say a counterattack on the main battlefield in the east had retaken half of the city of Sievierodonetsk.
Britain's four days of Platinum Jubilee celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth's 70 years on the throne conclude with a pageant through central London, and with tens of thousands of people expected to take part in nationwide street parties.
A massive fire has killed at least 38 people and injured more than 100 others at a container depot near a port city in Bangladesh, officials and local media report as firefighters struggled to bring the blaze under control.
Ukraine claims to have recaptured a large chunk of territory in the devastated eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and foiled an attempted advance by Russian troops on the 100th day of Moscow's invasion.
Britain will celebrate the second day of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, with the highlight a service of thanksgiving attended by senior royals and politicians that the 96-year-old monarch herself will miss due to ongoing mobility issues.
Amber Heard's lawyer says she was "demonised" by Johnny Depp's legal team, and the barrage of hostile social media posts influenced the defamation trial's jury.
A jury has finished a second day of deliberations on the defamation claims of Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard over their volatile and unhappy marriage.
More than 100 people are missing or confirmed dead in Brazil after mudslides and major floods brought about by heavy rains tore through several urban neighbourhoods in the northeastern part of the country.
Ukrainian forces are resisting a Russian assault on Sievierodonetsk, the largest city they still hold in the eastern Donbas region, but are weathering heavy artillery barrages.
Moscow-backed separatists have pounded eastern Ukraine's industrial Donbas region, as Ukrainian officials pleaded for sophisticated Western weapons to stop the onslaught.
A ship has entered the Ukrainian port of Mariupol for the first time since Russia completed its capture of the city to load metal and ship it east to Russia, TASS news agency reported, in a move that Kyiv decried as looting.
The United States should make it easier to confine "deranged" people and eliminate gun-free school zones after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers this week at a Texas school, former president Donald Trump says.
