WASHINGTON  - Unknown gunmen opened fire at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans Sunday, wounding 19 people in an incident the FBI attributed to “street violence.”Those wounded when gunfire erupted in the early afternoon attack included 17 adults and two 10-year-olds, the ...

LAHORE - A leader of the Sunni Tehrik was killed in a drive-by shooting in the Tibbi City area on Friday, police said. Khurum Raza Qadri, 45, was on his way home in an auto-rickshaw after leading Friday prayers at the Begum Shahi Masjid Moti Bazaar when two gunmen riding on a Honda-125 motorcycle ...

ROME Italy’s new coalition government was sworn in on Sunday, but a ceremony symbolising a fresh start for a country mired in recession and dogged by political feuds was overshadowed by a shooting outside government headquarters.As Prime Minister Enrico Letta and his 21 ministers took the ...

JERUSALEM  - An Israeli fighter plane shot down a drone from Lebanon over the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday as it was approaching the Israeli coast, the military claimed. “I view with great gravity this attempt to violate our border. We will continue to do what is necessary to defend the ...

WASHINGTON: Five people died in a shooting incident in an apartment complex nearSeattlein the northwest US state ofWashington, news reports said Monday. The dead included a man shot by several police officers as he lay on the ground in a parking lot and reached for a gun, police spokeswoman Cathy ...

LEIDEN,Netherlands: Dutch police arrested a former pupil at a British school in theNetherlandson Monday in connection with a threat to go on a shooting spree that saw armed police deployed and schools closed. Police in the university city of Leiden, just northeast of The Hague, confirmed one person ...

Five more people were killed in Karachi including a member of a religious group in firing incidents across Karachi on Monday.The victims were attacked by unidentified armed assailants near Tariq Road, Sohrab Goth, Gulistan-e-Jauhar and New Karachi.Two persons were killed and another injured near ...

BIRMINGHAM - A day after the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a gunman entered a hospital and opened fire on two hospital employees and one police officer in Birmingham, Alabama.Police killed the gunman who entered St. Vincent’s Hospital early Saturday morning and began ...

ULM - Germany's former boxing world champion Rola El-Halabi is set to fulfil her dream in January to box again, nearly two years after she was gunned down by her step-father in a vicious attack.The 27-year-old El-Halabi, who won the women's IBA and IBF lightweight titles in 2009, will climb into ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - At least four people were wounded overnight in a shooting on the campus of the University of Southern California, police said early Thursday. An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed there had been a shooting on campus and said four people had been taken to ...

MONTREAL - A gunman was arrested after shooting two people, one of them fatally, at the victory speech of Quebec’s Pauline Marois, whose separatist party is projected to win polls in the Canadian province. Another person was seriously wounded in the incident late Tuesday, as Marois was ...

Lollywood’s top film actor Shan suffered injuries when he was hit by a speeding jeep, during a film shoot here on Monday.  Shan was shooting Masood Butt’s new Punjabi venture ‘Accha Gujjar’ when he was rushed to the hospital after being injured.  According to film ...

QUETTA - A man was shot dead in Gandawa area of Jhal Magsi district on Thursday. According to Levies Force officials, Saleh Muhammad was on his way when armed men opened fire on him, wounding him seriously. Saleh succumbed to his injuries. Levies personnel moved the body to hospital for autopsy and ...

LAHORE – Punjab University Teaching Department (PUTD) have clinched the Inter-collegiate Rifle Shooting Championship title with 123 points held here at the Old Campus ground. Law College bagged second position with 64 points and Haile College was on third with 51 points. M Nazir was declared ...

A Dutch woman has been photographed at a fairground shooting range almost every year since 1936. The chronological series begins with a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg picking up a gun and firing at the target. Now 92, Ria van Dijk still makes her annual pilgrimage to the shooting gallery. Every time ...

KARACHI - At least five people were wounded when unidentified gunmen went on a shooting spree immediately following the killing of a local leader of the Awami National Party on Monday.Furqan Shah, 32, son of Farman Shah, was vice-president of the ANP’s District West ward. Unconfirmed reports ...

GUJRAT (INP) - Seven people, including a bank officer and a constable, were killed when armed motorcyclists fired shots at a car, police and eyewitness said Monday.According to police, two armed motorcyclists opened indiscriminate fire on the vehicle of bank officer Muhammad Sharif at Tehsil ...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A gunman opened fire at a Nevada restaurant Tuesday, killing three people and wounding nine others, many of them members of the National Guard, before turning the gun on himself. Witnesses called the emergency services shortly after 9:00 am (1600 GMT) when they saw a man in the ...

KARACHI In what was taken to be a triumph of justice across the country, an anti-terrorism court on Friday sentenced Rangers personnel Shahid Zafar to death and six others to life imprisonment for killing in cold blood an unarmed youth, Sarfraz Shah, in Karachi. The court also imposed Rs200,000 ...

FEROZEWALA - A man was arrested on Friday for firing shots at his relative, injuring him critically at the district courts. Reportedly, Pervaiz contracted love marriage with a cousin of Nawaz, who was upset about it and sprayed a volley of bullets when Pervaiz came out of his lawyers chamber. DSP ...

LAHORE - Former army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg on Tuesday bitterly criticised the government for involving Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in the conflict between the executive and the judiciary, and demanded that the Pakistan Air Force should be tasked to shoot down the helicopters and drones involved in ...

KABUL (AFP) - The Taliban claimed responsibility for the drive-by shooting of a senior official in southern Afghanistan who was shot dead Wednesday by gunmen on a motorbike. Abdul Majeed Babai, the Kandahar provincial director for culture and information, had just left his home to go to his ...

BAKU (Reuters) - Two soldiers in Azerbaijan shot dead four fellow servicemen and then killed themselves at a military base near the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the defence ministry said on Friday. The ministry said two other soldiers were wounded in the shooting, which took place on ...

ST LOUIS, Missouri, (AFP) A US gunman Thursday shot dead three people and wounded five in a rampage at a Missouri power company, police said. US media reported that the gunman, said to be a former employee of ABB Power in St Louis, was among the dead, but police could not immediately confirm the ...

NEW YORK - Thirteen people were shot and killed Friday when a gunman opened fire at an immigration services centre in downstate New York, officials said. ABC News reported the gunman, described as a man in his 20s, later shot and killed himself. Neither the gunman nor the victims were immediately ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, (AFP) - Six people were shot at the New Orleans' Mardi Gras festival, casting a shadow on the annual festivities in a city still recovering from the ravages of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. Authorities said the shooting took place on "Fat Tuesday" - the most festive day of the ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's female shooter Atliya Naz inked new South Asian record by winning the gold medal with 590 points in the 50-meter Rifle Prone's individual disciplines on Saturday here at Gun Club Shooting Range, Pakistan Sports Complex while hosts girls also claimed a gold medal in the team ...

KAUHAJOKI, Finland, (AFP) - Finland vowed Wednesday to toughen gun laws after a school massacre left 11 people dead, while police faced scathing criticism for questioning the killer over a chilling YouTube warning only to release him on the eve of the tragedy. Culinary arts student Matti ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - One person was killed and several wounded on Sunday when a man armed with a shotgun opened fire in a church in Knoxville, Tennessee, local television reported. One person died and five were in critical condition after a man with long blond hair who appeared to be in his 40s ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A man went on shooting rampage at a plastics plant in the state of Kentucky Wednesday, fatally shooting five co-workers before killing himself, police said. Police in the town of Henderson, Kentucky told AFP that at least another person was being treated in hospital for ...