A gunman stormed City Hall during a council meeting in Missouri, killing two police officers and three city officials before he was shot by law-enforcement officers. The mayor was severely injured in the shootout too.

Suspected Islamic militants attacked the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, early Friday. Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem, two Mauritanians and a French woman were wounded when the attackers also opened fire on a nearby nightclub.

Gunmen have killed an opposition member of Kenya's parliament, sparking a new wave of violence in the country. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, there are fears the violence has devolved into revenge attacks between the country's ethnic groups.

Four armed men are holding at least 30 people hostage inside a bank in central Venezuela.

Pakistan's Interior Ministry says gunmen have released all the children briefly held hostage at a high school in North West Frontier Province.

A foreigner suspected to be a Dutch man and three Nigerians were recently killed at different locations in the violent oil rich Rivers state of Nigeria.