Those behind the recent deadly attack in a Hizbullah-dominated area in southern Beirut must be stopped from targeting civilians.

The US government has been challenged over illegal use of force amid reports it is finalising a “manual” for targeted killings including drone strikes.

The President of the National Council of Churches USA has expressed "shock and the profoundest grief" over the deaths in the mass shooting in Newtown.

US religious groups - Christian, Jewish and Muslim - are condemning killings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, described as an act of "domestic terrorism".