Jarrod Powell's attack on Ma Yao Pan in Manhattan's East Harlem neighbourhood was one of a spate of attacks targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the US.

If the man who burned a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm had been brought to book for hate crime, Sweden would not have come under heavy condemnation from across the Arab and Islamic world.

Esmeralda Upton shouted at four Indian women, telling them to 'Go back to India', and physically assaulted them.

Of the 10 dead and three wounded, 11 were African Americans.

John T Earnest was identified as the author of a rambling, violently anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim manifesto found posted on the internet under his name minutes before the shooting began.

The Anti-Defamation League says there has been a 50% increase in anti-Semitic acts in the US since the outbreak of fighting in Israel.