Canadian Olympic figure skater Alexandra Paul has died in a car accident aged 31, after a truck crashed into a number of stationary vehicles in Ontario on Tuesday, police said.

A gunman killed three black people in an alleged racially motivated attack then killed himself in Jacksonville, Florida, the city’s sheriff said.

The head of Kenya’s airports authority, Alex Gitari, has been fired after a power cut left passengers stranded in darkness for hours at Nairobi’s main airport.

Human Rights Network says that vulnerable children who arrived in the United Kingdom by small boat have been kept in an adult prison that holds adult sex offenders.

Once known as one of China’s most impoverished provinces, the mountainous region of Guizhou has over the past decade become famous for a different reason: it is home to some of the world’s tallest bridges.