A cardiologist who treated former US President George H.W. Bush, has been killed in a bicycle-to-bicycle drive-by shooting near Texas Medical Center in Houston, authorities said.

Mark Hausknecht, 65, was killed on Friday around 9 a.m. It could have been either a random or a targeted incident, the Houston Police Department said as a probe got underway.

Ucchila: An around 60-year-old pedestrian was killed in a hit and run incident by an unknown vehicle today near Dominion Plaza in Ucchila Grama Panchayat on National Highway 66.

A man was beaten to death at Alwar in Rajasthan on Friday night by villagers on suspicion of cow smuggling. The police have identified the man as Akbar Khan.

Villagers in Ramgarh, caught the two men who were transporting cows on foot. The two were brutally beaten up and one of them died on the spot.

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi described Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech during no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha as an "old rhetoric" and Congress President Rahul Gandhi said it was "weak". The Congress party termed his speech as "dramebaazi" (theatrics).

A two-year-old girl has died after being accidentally shot by her four-year-old cousin who got hold of a gun at a home in the US state of California, said police.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP President N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with arrogance during the debate on no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha.

Naidu, whose party had moved the no-confidence motion against the NDA government, said that Modi spoke as if Andhra Pradesh was not part of India.

The fourth additional principal district and sessions court on Friday convicted two accused for life imprisonment and slapped a penalty of Rs 1 lakh each on charges of murdering Candle Santu alias Santosh of Polali Badakabailu.

Urban Development and Housing Minister UT Khader visited the Shiroor Moola Mutt and paid his homage to Lakshmivara Tirtha Swamiji of Shiroor Mutt at Vrundavan on Friday.