Authorities in the US say rapper Coolio has been arrested after a loaded firearm was found in a carry-on bag during airport security screening.

American actress Charmian Carr, who played the eldest von Trapp daughter Liesl in the 1965 film The Sound of Music, dies aged 73.

A woman explains how her family has come to live in these conditions in the besieged city.

A court in Egypt has ordered a freeze on the assets of five prominent human rights activists and three non-governmental organisations.

Several people have been killed in fighting between rival rebel groups in the Central African Republic, the UN mission in the country says.

The suspects who set fire to the clothing of a Scottish Muslim tourist in New York also targeted five other women, say police.

Heavily-armed militants attack an army base in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing at least 17 soldiers in the deadliest attack in recent years.

At least eight people are wounded in a stabbing attack at a shopping mall in the US state of Minnesota, before the suspected attacker is shot dead by police.