Images show an alleged gunman opening fire near a Turkish restaurant in the German city of Halle. At least two people were shot dead on a street in the city, police said, with media and witnesses reporting that a synagogue and a Turkish restaurant were the targets.

Several people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a government complex in the city of Virginia Beach. Virginia state police said the gunman was also killed.

A yet to be identified gunman is being held by the police in Abuja after he was apprehended during an invasion of the Abuja residence of the deputy president of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.

Five people were shot dead, including the suspected gunman, in a Friday night attack at a Texas nursing home and the home of one of the people slain, city officials said.

A gunman killed at least 11 people on Friday in attacks on a Coptic Orthodox church and a Christian-owned shop near Cairo before he was wounded and arrested.

Worshippers ranging from 5 to 72 years old are among those killed and wounded when a gunman opens fire in a small town church outside San Antonio, Texas.

Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen visited Las Vegas on Saturday days after a gunman opened fire on a country music festival killing 58 people.

A German police officer was critically wounded and two passers-by hurt when a lone gunman fired shots at a commuter rail station near the southern German city of Munich before being injured himself and detained, police say.

At least five people have been killed in a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The shooter is in custody.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing of 39 people celebrating the New Year inside a fabled Istanbul nightclub, an act of terrorism that has become grimly familiar in Turkey as it fails to keep the violence in Syria from spilling into its cities.

Islamic State claimed responsibility on Monday (January 2) for a New Year's Day mass shooting in a packed Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people, an attack carried out by a lone gunman who remains at large.

A man storms into a Zurich mosque and opens fire on people praying, injuring three.