IS said two of the group’s members shot and killed security guards manning the entrance of the Fatimiya mosque in Kandahar.

The Beirut shooting on a frontline of the 1975-90 civil war marks some of Lebanon's worst strife in years.

The conclusions are based on data received from 28,000 participants of a study which was conducted in Moscow in July.

A man armed with a bow and arrow has killed five people and injured two others in the small Norwegian town of Kongsberg

345 children under the age of 6 are accompanying their mothers in Turkish prisons, receiving the same treatment as inmates.