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21-year-old Dylann Roof believed to be responsible for deadly attack

Police in Charleston, South Carolina, searching for white gunman who opened fire inside a historic black church • Charleston shooting: latest updates At least nine people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at ...

Proposal that would have allowed election of leaders, but only from candidates vetted by Communist party hierarchy, is defeated in key vote Pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong have defeated attempts to bring "fake democ...

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church are threatening to picket the funerals of the victims of Wednesday's shooting at an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina. The group, based in Topeka, Kansas, blamed...

A tiger and a hyena were still on the loose in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Thursday, a day after a man was mauled to death.

Police searched for the shooter in the hours after the attack.

The number of people displaced by war, conflict or persecution reached a record high of nearly 60 million around the world in 2014, a UN report says.

"We woke up today, and the heart and soul of South Carolina was broken," the governor said on Thursday

Suspect identified but 'not yet in custody' Nine dead after 'hate crime' attack on historic black church Pastor Clementa Pinckney named among the dead Share your accounts with GuardianWitness What we know so far 11.20am ...

Policymakers have a "once in a generation" opportunity to reform the insurance sector to help those at risk from climate change impacts, say researchers.

Whether escaping stifling familial expectations or yearning for a macho hierarchy, there are reasoned - if unsettling - reasons for Isis recruits' haste to join Defections by British citizens to Islamic State typically i...

Pinckney was the leader of the church where the shooting occurred.

Police investigate whether church on traditional site of Jesus's miracle of loaves and fish at the Sea of Galilee was attacked by Jewish extremists A Catholic church near the Sea of Galilee in Israel frequented by religi...

Here are two Boston Police officers who seemed to do the right thing in a YouTube video published on Wednesday.

An attack by suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters on two villages in southern Niger kills at least 38 people, the local MP tells the BBC.

Police confirm man in niqab arrested after town centre is cleared for controlled explosion of package outside Travelodge A man in a niqab has been arrested after army bomb-disposal experts made a controlled explosion of ...

Major restoration of the Houses of Parliament without moving MPs and peers out would take 32 years and cost £5.7bn, a report says.

Potentially harmful Viagra-style pills, slimming tablets and counterfeit condoms are taken off the market in a major operation.

A man accused of kicking Malorie Bantala in the stomach, causing her to lose her unborn baby, is refused bail by magistrates.

After nine people are killed at a shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, city police chief Gregory Mullen says the suspect will be brought to justice.

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