More than a dozen people are shot in Monterey Park, California while festivities were taking place for Chinese New Year, officials and witnesses say. The exact numbers of casualties are not yet known.

The killing of an Australian aboriginal teenager, who was beaten to death in the western city of Perth earlier this month, has sparked calls for nationwide protests against hate crimes and racial discrimination in the country.

The incident in which an incendiary device exploded outside a mosque in New York's Long Island area last week is being treated as a ‘hate crime’.

Islamophobic abuse is something most Muslims living in Britain have to deal with but many were shocked to discover just how dangerous the problem has become.

A white gunman has shot dead 10 people to death and injured three others at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, in an act of "racially motivated violent extremism."

A 17-year-old female Muslim student has been assaulted and her hijab torn off by fellow students in a New Zealand high school.

The House of Lords has voted against a government bill to clamp down on protesters and amended the bill to make misogyny a hate crime in the UK.