2017 Plano shooting A gunman shoots seven people dead at a house party in Plano, Texas, amid a domestic dispute. The gunman was then killed after exchanging fire with a Plano Police Department officer.
2017 Livorno floods Floods, following torrential rain, kill at least six people in the port city of Livorno, Italy.
2017 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida as a category 4 hurricane, killing at least three people and knocking out power to over one million households.
Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war Russian airstrikes on several ferries attempting to cross the Euphrates near Deir ez-Zor kill at least 34 civilians, including 9 children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.