Five foreign tourists were killed by armed attackers and several more were wounded and taken to hospital on Monday in the Afar region of Ethiopia bordering Eritrea, state television reported Tuesday.
A court in Oslo on Friday ordered a new psychiatric assessment of Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to killing 77 people in a July bomb attack and subsequent shooting spree. An earlier report found Breivik to be criminally insane.
France opened an inquiry Friday into the death of Gilles Jacquier, a journalist for France 2 television, who was killed in Syria on Wednesday. Jacquier was under government escort in the restive city of Homs when his convoy was hit by artillery.
A British judge has sentenced two men to life in prison for stabbing a black teenager to death in London almost two decades ago - a crime that exposed racism within the police and set the victim's family on a long quest for justice.
A London jury found two white men guilty Tuesday of the brutal murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993. New forensic evidence helped convict the accused, who had both denied involvement in the racially motivated attack.
The death toll from an attack in the Belgian city of Liège rose to five on Wednesday after a woman died overnight from her injuries. Nordine Amrani killed three people and wounded 125 others on Tuesday before killing himself.
The body of a woman in her forties was found Wednesday at the home of Nordine Amrani, the gunman who killed four people and injured more than 100 others before killing himself in the Belgian city of Liège on Tuesday.
Far-right Italian author Gianluca Casseri, 50, shot and killed two Senegalese men and wounded three other people in Florence before killing himself on Tuesday. Some 200 Senegalese later rallied in protest against the killings.
A lone gunman died after killing four people and injuring more than 100 others in an attack on a crowded square in the Belgian city of Liège on Tuesday. Police said Nordine Amrani had a criminal background but was not known for mental instability.
How should child murderers be punished? Many are soul searching in France following the brutal killing of a 13-year-old girl. We also look at whether Nicolas Sarkozy is making a comeback - the French president is gaining ground on his Socialist rival in the polls. Finally, we explore the extraordinary life of Danielle Mitterrand. The widow of France’s first Socialist president passed away on Tuesday at the age of 87.
