Finland mourns teenager's 'revolution' massacre
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The Finnish government ordered a day of nationwide mourning Thursday after a youth killed six students, the head teacher and a nurse at his school before turning the gun on himself.
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The trial of Peru's ex-head Alberto Fujimori hears how a death squad celebrated hours after killing 15 people.
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"They are traumatized because of the violence they face every day and they don't have the skills to deal with it"  It is a tragedy becoming too familiar for a country where gun crime is still relatively uncommon and where limits on gun ownership are strict _ an 11-year-old boy shot to death, allegedly by a hooded teenager on a BMX bicycle.Rhys Jones, a cherubic-faced boy who liked playing tag and video games, was in a pub's parking lot kicking a soccer ball around with friends Wednesday when two youths rode by and fired shots.Rhys died of a single bullet wound to the neck, the latest victim in a rising wave of youth violence that is sparking soul-searching about why some British children stray into lawlessness. Read more
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Tens of thousands of Lebanese paid tribute to assassinated Christian politician Pierre Gemayel on Thursday, turning his funeral in central Beirut into a display of defiance towards Syria and its Hezbollah allies.
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Hundreds are mourning one of the suburban Chicago victims of the Northern Illinois University shootings who is being called "a daughter of Cicero," her hometown.
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The Netherlands mourned the outspoken  filmmaker killed a week ago by a suspected Islamic extremist,  while Dutch Muslims rallied to urge reconciliation on Tuesday  after a wave of apparent revenge attacks on mosques.
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Mourners gathered Tuesday for the cremation of a Dutch filmmaker allegedly slain by a Muslim extremist in an act that led to a string of retaliatory attacks against its Muslim minority and caused the nation to ...
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In the cold, dark hours before dawn  Wednesday, Sweden's king and prime minister somberly welcomed  home the bodies of six Swedes killed in the Asian tsunami, the  first of many expected in the days to come.
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - The families of two black teenagers who were abducted and murdered in a 1964 Mississippi race crime set up a memorial to them on Friday, one day after a former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of kidnapping in the case.
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Hundreds of relatives of at least 39 people killed 20 years ago by a military dictatorship returned to their native Suriname to receive an official apology and compensation from the government.
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TUUSULA, Finland (BBC News) - At least eight people have been killed and several others injured in a shooting at a school in southern Finland, medical officials say.  Finnish media reported that the shots had been fired by an 18-year-old man at Jokela secondary school in Tuusula, some 50km (30 miles) north of the capital Helsinki. Dr. Eero Hirvensalo, the head of the medical response team, said seven or more people had been killed and that the death toll could rise. According to German television reports of the hour, the gunman is alive and being detained.
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By Mary Milliken and Juana Casas BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Protests mounted onSunday as families and friends mourned the more than 180 youngpeople killed in a blaze at a rock club.
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Mourners prepared on Sunday for the first funerals of 330 people killed in the bloody battle that ended the siege of a southern Russian school on Friday -- but others did not know if loved ones had survived.
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TUUSULA, Finland  - Seven children and a head teacher were killed when a pupil opened fire at a school in southern Finland on Wednesday, hours after he posted a video on YouTube foreshadowing a massacre there.
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The family and friends of murdered 10-year-old Nathalie Mahy have bade her a final farewell, three weeks after she and another schoolgirl went missing in a case that has traumatised Belgium.
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Residents of this grief-stricken southern city on Tuesday marked the end of the 40-day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of a school massacre, lighting thin prayer candles and propping up photographs in the gymnasium at the center of the tragedy.
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Four days after a gunmanattacked an Amish schoolhouse, funerals were held for four of the five girls he killed.