Police are hunting for a man who attacked five people with a chainsaw in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen. Franz Wrousis is alleged to have launched his assault at a health insurance office shortly after 10:30 local time (08:30 GMT). The attack sparked a manhunt involving more than 100 officers from both Switzerland and Germany.

Of all the ideas percolating on college campuses these days, the most dangerous one might be that speech is sometimes violence. We’re not talking about verbal threats of violence, which are used to coerce and intimidate, and which are illegal and not protected by the First Amendment. We’re talking about speech that is deemed by members of an identity group to be critical of the group, or speech that is otherwise upsetting to members of the group.

At least 28 prisoners were killed in a brutal prison fight on Thursday in the Mexican Pacific resort of Acapulco, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country’s troubled penal system in recent years. Acapulco is the biggest city in Guerrero, one of Mexico’s most lawless states and a center of opium poppy production that has been a major concern to US officials.

A woman suffered 'life changing' burns after she had acid thrown at her while out celebrating her 21st birthday. Resham Khan was left with damage to one eye and extensive burns after being attacked as she drove through Beckton, east London, with her cousin Jameel on Wednesday morning. A man ran up and threw acid at both Ms Khan and her cousin through the open car window as they stopped at traffic lights.

Tamara Crowchief may have yelled "I hate white people" as she carried out a violent assault on a white person, but that doesn't mean her attack was racially motivated, a Canadian judge has ruled. The attack occurred outside a pub in Calgary, Canada, on Nov. 1, according to the Calgary Herald. Crowchief's victim, identified as Lydia White, lost a tooth in the assault, the paper reported.

There isn't a day that goes by when black and brown people are not thinking about what oppression looks like. From the moment we're brought into this world, we realize just how quickly racist institutions will render us nonexistent. With the acquittal of Philando Castile's murderer and the killings of Charleena Lyles and Nabra Hassanen,…

Warrior policing and the widespread use of military style tactics and equipment has intensified the debate over police violence directed at black and brown citizens. Jeronimo Yanez, the Minnesota police officer who was acquitted last week in the shooting death of Philando Castile, had attended a seminar on warrior policing as part of his training.

A suspect is in custody after Steve Scalise, the third highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, and four other people were taken to hospital following a shooting at a baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., involving politicians and officials.

The Lampasas County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday released dashcam and bodycam video of the arrest of a teenager that sparked controversy after a cellphone recording of the incident went viral. A frame grab from the video released on June 7, 2017. The sheriff’s office released the more than 13 minutes of video without comment Wednesday afternoon. The video, just as the earlier cellphone video that circulated on social media, appears to show law enforcement officers holding the teenager down and punching him several times.

When you’re in the business of commentary, every day you see hundreds of people speaking authoritatively on subjects they know little about. Usually it’s political, but make no mistake as to the capacity people have for not knowing what they’re talking about... By Ben Howe.

A new video footage has emerged in relation with the assault of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's bodyguards on peaceful demonstrators in front of the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC following his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the White House on May 16. The video shows that Erdoğan keeps waiting in his vehicle as people protest him chanting “Terrorist Erdoğan, “Baby Killer Erdoğan” when his convoy arrives at the Turkish Embassy after his meeting with Trump the day before.

A group of peaceful demonstrators protesting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s official visit to the United States, were attacked by pro-Erdogan groups at the Sheridan Circle near the residence of the Turkish Ambassador to the U.S.

A shockingly violent video shows the Jordanian citizen attacking the Israeli police officer in a frenzy; the Hashemite kingdom denounces the ‘terrible crime’; the wounded police officer says from his hospital bed: ‘You have to fight to save civilians and your life. I tried to do everything for my family.’

A Pakistani boy’s hand was cut off after his employer “taught him a lesson” for demanding food and his salary, according to local media reports. The boy, 13, was reportedly employed by a landlady, identified as Shafqat Bibi, on a salary of 3,000 Pakistani rupees (around $29) to feed cattle and work at her house in Punjab province. Last week, the boy allegedly refused to do his job until the landlady fed and paid him, as he was destitute and starving, 24 News HD channel reported.

The drug war in Mexico was ranked 2016's second deadliest conflict in the world, with only the war in Syria being labelled worse, a new annual survey has revealed. This means Mexico experienced levels of violence far more extreme than that of Iraq, Yemen or Afghanistan. As the war against Isis in Iraq, the civil war in Syria, and the conflict between the forces of Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and the Houthi rebels made the headlines, violence in Mexico has gone relatively underreported.

Hate groups have come to tiny Pikeville in a bid for support, but locals fear a violent standoff between the neo-Nazis and anti-fascist protesters. By Lois Beckett .

“This is a war and we intend to win.” By Wes Enzinna.

Times journalists spent weeks documenting the stories of people living along a desert highway in Niger, interviewing more than 100 residents scattered by Boko Haram.

A police officer and three other people were shot and killed when a domestic dispute at a bank escalated into shootings at three locations in northern Wisconsin on Wednesday, investigators said. A suspect was in custody. The shootings happened at a bank, a law firm and an apartment complex, where officers, including a SWAT team, had a standoff with the suspect for several hours before ending in a volley of gunfire around 5 p.m.

The man believed to be responsible for the attack is named as 52-year-old Khalid Masood.