At least 27 people have been killed after a hotel in the Tunisian coastal city of Sousse came under attack by unidentified gunmen. An interior ministry official said that tourists were among those who had been killed in Friday’s attack. One attacker had been killed by police and a search[…]
A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday as lawmakers met to consider a new defense minister, and another district in the volatile north fell to the radicals as they intensified a summer offensive. The brazen assault on the symbolic center of power, along with[…]
Police in Charleston, South Carolina, were searching for a white gunman on Thursday who killed nine people in a historic African-American church, in an attack that police and the city’s mayor described as a hate crime. The shooter, a 21-year-old white man with sandy blond hair, sat with churchgoers inside[…]
The lioness which attacked and killed an American tourist ripped out part of her shoulder and also tore into her face and chest, an eyewitness has told various newspapers. “The lioness had half of the passenger’s shoulder in her mouth. It was too late for anyone to save her,” engineer[…]
The UK’s Daily Mail on Wednesday named the American woman killed by a lioness at the Fourways Lion Park outside Johannesburg as Katherine Chappell. The website reported that Chappell was a 29-year-old film editor who worked on an Emmy-winning episode of Game of Thrones. She was in Africa to raise[…]
The US embassy in South Africa has confirmed that the woman who was killed by a lion at the Lion Park in Johannesburg on Monday afternoon was an American citizen. ”Out of respect for the privacy of the family, we will not be releasing the name or commenting any further,”[…]
A mass funeral was held in Pakistan for 45 people from a minority community killed in a gun attack on a bus a day before. Hundreds attended the ceremony in the southern city of Karachi, officials said. Pakistan began a nationwide day of mourning over the killings of the members[…]
A Cape Town man was lucky to escape from the jaws of a Great White shark after testing out new diving equipment near Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape , the NSRI said on Sunday. Backpacker tour operator Mathieu Dasnois, 29, had organised a sightseeing trip for clients on[…]
Rescuers have pulled a 101-year-old man and three women alive from his ruined home a week after Nepal’s earthquake claimed at least 7,250 lives, as the government warned that the death toll will climb “much higher”. Funchu Tamang was rescued from the rubble of his house with only minor injuries[…]
A Zimbabwean national subjected to a brutal assault at a shelter in Somerset West last week, has recounted the physical and emotional trauma suffered during the attack. 30-year old Economic Management Sciences (EMS) student, Peter Mufuka was stabbed several times during Tuesday’s incident, allegedly at the hands of a group[…]
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