A woman explains how her family has come to live in these conditions in the besieged city.

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.

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.

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.

An al-Shabab suicide attacker kills a Somali general and several of his bodyguards with a car bomb in Mogadishu.

American actress Charmian Carr, who played the eldest von Trapp daughter Liesl in the 1965 film The Sound of Music, dies aged 73.

A court in Egypt has ordered a freeze on the assets of five prominent human rights activists and three non-governmental organisations.