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.

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.

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.

A US-led air attack that reportedly killed dozens of Syrian government soldiers endangers the already shaky ceasefire, Russia says.

A boat carrying Muslim pilgrims capsizes after hitting a bridge in the central Thai city of Ayutthaya, killing at least 13 people, local media say.