TALLAHASSEE: A gunman killed 50 people and injured 53 in a crowded gay nightclub in the tourist hub of Orlando, Florida, early on Sunday before being shot dead by police, authorities said, in what appeared the deadliest mass shooting in American history.
ISLAMABAD: At least 65 people have been killed and hundreds more injured by an explosion in a crowded park in the Pakistani city of Lahore, where Christians were celebrating Easter.
CAIRO: Saudi-led air strikes killed at least 80 people near Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, residents said, the deadliest day of bombing in over two months of war in Yemen.
BEIRUT: More than 76,000 people were killed in Syria's brutal conflict in 2014, making it the bloodiest year yet in the country's nearly four-year war, a monitor said on Thursday.