In a late night shooting, at least 15 people were shot dead and many others were wounded after suspected separatist insurgents attacked village defence volunteers at a security checkpoint in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, security officials said on Wednesday.

A day after Donald Trump announced the death of Isalmic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a report claimed that his remains have been buried at sea and afforded him religious rites according to Islamic custom by the US military.

A gym trainer, who rose to fame with his short videos on the social networking sites TikTok and Instagram, has been shot dead by three men at a shop in outer Delhi's Najafgarh on Tuesday.

It was a blood-soaked Saturday in Kashmir in which 11 persons, including seven civilians, an Army soldier and three militants, were killed and over three dozen civilian protesters sustained injuries in clashes with the security forces.

Curfew continued in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district on Friday, a day after unidentified gunmen shot dead BJP state secretary Anil Parihar and his brother, with authorities calling the Army to help maintain calm.

At least 11 people were killed and six others were injured after a gunman opened fire Saturday morning inside a synagogue in Pittsburgh, US state of Pennsylvania, a city official said.

The wife and son of an Additional District Judge were on Saturday allegedly shot at by the judge's security guard, injuring them.

A man stabbed his mother and sister and seriously injured a third person on a street in a Paris suburb before being killed by the police. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State, but the French government was not treating the incident as terror-related.

Platelets -- found in the blood -- are the first line of defence in patients with malaria, killing up to 60 per cent of the malaria parasites circulating in the bloodstream, finds a study.

At least 38 people were killed and 37 wounded in a series of bombings and attacks that rocked government-held areas in Syria's Sweida province on Wednesday, state media and opposition activists reported.