A gunman opened fire inside a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, on Friday, killing 1 and wounding several others before killing himself, authorities said. At least one victim is critical, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare told CBS affiliate WCTV.  Police told WCTV that five victims

The Trump administration is to reinstate all US sanctions on Iran removed under the 2015 nuclear deal. The White House said it was "the toughest sanctions regime ever imposed on Iran" and targeted Iran's energy, shipping and banking sectors. However, eight countries will not be

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a dangerous Islamist days after his disappearance in a phone call with President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and national security adviser John Bolton, according to people familiar with the

At least five people were killed by suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) terrorists in Upper Assam's Tinsukia district in India on Thursday (Nov 1) evening.  Reports suggest the terrorists belonged to the ULFA's Paresh Baruah faction, the ULFA-Independent. But the

Staff at Google offices around the world are staging an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company's treatment of women. The employees are demanding several key changes in how sexual misconduct allegations are dealt with at the firm, including a call to end forced

A "black box" flight data recorder from Lion Air flight JT 610 has been found by divers off the coast of Indonesia. The plane, carrying 189 people, crashed soon after taking off from Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, on Monday. It plummeted into the Java Sea - no survivors have been

Police in New York are investigating the deaths of two sisters from Saudi Arabia who were found duct-taped together in the Hudson River last week. Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 22, were discovered facing each other and fully clothed without any obvious signs of trauma, police say.

An Afghan official says an army helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed in bad weather in the western Farah province, killing all 25 on board. Naser Mehdi, a spokesman for the provincial governor, says the helicopter crashed around 9:10 a.m. (0440 GMT), shortly after taking

The bronze Statue of Unity pays tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a leader of the Indian independence movement who helped wrest the country from British control. His big toe is roughly the height of a basketball hoop. You’d have to climb 182 meters, or 597 feet, into the sky to

A massive search effort has identified the possible seabed location of the crashed Lion Air jet, Indonesia's military chief said Wednesday, as experts carried out the grim task of identifying dozens of body parts recovered from a 15-nautical-mile-wide search area and chilling video of

An Indian couple who fell to their deaths in California's Yosemite National Park were apparently taking a selfie, according to a family member and media reports. Vishnu Viswanath, 29 and Meenakshi Moorthy, 30, died last week after falling from Taft Point – a popular overlook at

President Donald Trump is sending 5,200 troops and a slew of military equipment to the southern border, doubling down on one of his favorite base-rallying issues with the midterm elections just days away. The troops, who will be at the border by the end of the week, are being deployed

Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza have welcomed their first child together. The sports couple have had a boy, revealed Malik on Twitter. The former Pakistani cricket captain informed fans that new mom Sania "is doing great and keeping strong as usual". While he said he was simply

New Zealand has been rocked by a magnitude-6.1 earthquake which struck near the town of New Plymouth, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The quake was recorded at 3:13pm local time, at a depth of 227 kilometres on the North Island's west coast. Thousands of

The Indonesian jet which crashed shortly after take-off had suffered instrument problems the day before, according to a technical log obtained by the BBC. A technical log from a flight from Bali to Jakarta on Sunday said an instrument was "unreliable" and the pilot had to hand over to

Germany's Angela Merkel says she will step down as chancellor in 2021, following recent election setbacks. "I will not be seeking any political after my term ends," she told a news conference. Her CDU party was severely weakened in elections in the state of Hesse on Sunday, the

The Indonesian authorities have mounted a search and rescue operation for a Lion Air plane which crashed into the sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta on Monday (Oct 29) morning. Lion Air flight JT-610 took off from Jakarta Airport at 6.20am local time and lost contact with air

Eleven people have been killed, officials say, in a gun attack on a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The gunman, who opened fire as the Tree of Life synagogue held a service, was later taken into custody. President Donald Trump said "a lot of people" had been

The fiancée of the murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi declined an invitation from US President Donald Trump to visit the White House, she said Friday. "The statements Trump made in the first days around his invite and the statements he made afterward opposed each

Sri Lankan opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa was appointed prime minister on Friday after President Maithripala Sirisena dismissed the incumbent in a surprise move that threatens political turmoil in the Indian Ocean nation. Rajapaksa, a pro-China former president, ushered in