The killing of nine African-Americans in a "hate crime" shooting Wednesday night mirrors the U.S. government's inaction on rampant gun violence as well as the growing racial hatred in the country.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday expressed anger over a black church massacre in the southeastern U.S. city of Charleston and said the country has to face the fact that rampant gun violence only happens in the United States.
The white gunman suspected of killing nine African-Americans in a "hate crime" shooting in the southeastern U.S. city of Charleston, South Carolina, was caught on Thursday, law enforcement said.
Abductors of a 87-year-old American woman missionary, Rev. Phyllis Sortor, in central north Nigeria's Kogi State have asked large ransom in exchange for her release, an aide said on Thursday.
The Church of England on Monday officially enacted legislation to enable women to be ordained as bishops in the church.
South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday stormed the suspected hideout, where the de facto owner of a sunken ferry Sewol is believed to be inside, without any opposition, local media reported.
Gunmen opened fire on a group of wedding guests outside a Christian church in Egypt's capital of Cairo on Sunday night, killing at least two and wounding 12 others, official news agency MENA reported.
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