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Family in shock after Briton shot in US bar

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:14:07 GMT

A British father shot dead in a US bar was just "in the wrong place, at the wrong time", his family said tonight.

Sacked ex-employee goes on shooting spree

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:04:15 GMT

A sacked employee went on a shooting spree in a US office complex, killing one person and injuring five others before being caught by police.

Military base gunman remains in critical coma

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:02:33 GMT

The military psychiatrist responsible for a shooting spree that left 13 dead remained in a coma today, frustrating attempts to work out what made him kill.

Honduran 'unity' cabinet collapses

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

An agreement to end a four-month political crisis in Honduras collapsed early yesterday after the two rival leaders failed to form a unity cabinet to heal the damage from a coup in June.

Mark Hughes In Baltimore: Just minutes after I arrived, I was at the scene of a shooting ...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Just 15 minutes after stepping off the train at Baltimore's Penn station I found myself standing behind the yellow crime-scene tape after a shooting. We had been alerted to the attack on N Milton Avenue, in the east of the city, via Twitter. In the UK, the micro-blogging site is used mainly by people wanting to follow the thoughts and inanities of celebrities such as Stephen Fry. Here in Baltimore, the police use it to alert the media to shootings and homicides, such is their regularity.

'People were off guard in the base'

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

It is in the heart of Texas gun country, but Ford Hood is the last place one would expect a massacre to take place, said a former British Army officer who served in the vast military base.

Heroine whose shots ended the slaughter

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Schools were closed, streets deserted, and checkpoints set up at entrances to Fort Hood last night, as investigators tried to establish how a lone gunman was able to plan and carry out one of the most deadly killing sprees in US military history.

Inside the mind of the army killer

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

In the morning, he went to the corner shop where he lived near Fort Hood to buy coffee. Security video shows him exchanging chit-chat and smiling. In the afternoon, he went to a squat building inside the military facility filled with fellow soldiers preparing to deploy. He pulled out two handguns, and yelled "Allahu Akbar!" – God is great! – and he opened fire. The carnage was quick and terrible: 13 lay dead or dying. Thirty more were wounded.

Gunman kills one in Orlando shooting

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:09:23 GMT

A gunman opened fire today in the offices of an engineering firm from which he was sacked more than two years ago, killing one person and injuring five others.

Video: US Shooting investigation begins

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:25 GMT

Officer 'shouted Allahu Akbar' before gun rampage

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:26 GMT

A US officer who killed 13 soldiers in a gun rampage at a Texas army base shouted a triumphant Islamic proclamation before opening fire, it was claimed today.

Polygamist sect member convicted of sexual assault

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:42:56 GMT

The first of a dozen polygamist sect members to be tried over charges including child sex offences faces jail after being found guilty.

Video: Fort Hood soldier tells of shock

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:28:02 GMT

Troubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood suspect

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:23:42 GMT

His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported US wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.

US gun rampage search leads to extremist websites

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:24:49 GMT

A US officer who killed 13 soldiers in a gun rampage at a Texas army base was being investigated for links to extremist websites, security sources said today.

Mystery soldier tweets from inside Fort Hood

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:04:47 GMT

US army post shooting rampage leaves 13 dead

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:41:33 GMT

Military officials were today starting to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.

US officer goes on killing spree at army base

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Accustomed to terrible human loss overseas, the United States Army was last night struggling to come to terms with a savage outbreak of violence at home after an officer opened fire on the sprawling Fort Hood military base in Texas, which is at the tip of the spear of regular US troop deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

A new house of horrors that shocked America

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

They used to blame the sausage shop for the awful stench on Imperial Avenue, in a mostly forlorn neighbourhood on the east side of Cleveland. The stench persisted even though the owners had installed new sewer pipes and replaced the fat trap in hopes of fixing it. On hot days the shop's own employees had to close up, almost unable to breathe.

We broke law, says CIA agent convicted in Italy rendition

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

One of the Americans convicted in absentia by an Italian court for her part in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric by CIA operatives has acknowledged they "broke the law" and complained she was given insufficient protection by her superiors in Washington.

Business booms as Dr Doom plans company expansion

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

The depths of a financial crisis might not seem the most auspicious moment to be setting up a new investment advisory business, even if you are one of the bigger optimists about the economic recovery. How much more surprising, then, that a new entrant into the industry is Nouriel Roubini, the dour New York University economist whose predictions of financial disaster earned him the nickname Dr Doom.

Gunmen go on rampage at US army base, killing 12

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

The US Army confirmed last night that as many as 12 people were killed and 30 wounded in shootings on the sprawling Fort Hood military base near the city of Waco in Texas. The largest such facility in the United States, it has been at the heart of troop deployment to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Frustration mounts over Obama's fatal indecision

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Barack Obama is coming under mounting international pressure to make an early decision on his strategy in Afghanistan amid fears of a dangerous drift as he agonises over his next moves.

We broke the law, admits CIA agent convicted of rendition

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Fort Hood shooting suspect Army major

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:50:01 GMT

Officials say a shooting suspect at a military base in Texas has been identified as Major Malik Nadal Hasan, who they say was an Army mental health professional.