Gunman kills four at French school

A suspected serial killer shot dead three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in France on Monday in what was branded an anti-Semitic attack, plunging the nation into shock. President Nicolas Sarkozy declared the murders a "national tragedy" as anti-terror police probed the third fatal shooting involving a gunmen wielding what police said was the same pistol in the Toulouse area in recent days.

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Nurses charged in 16 mercy killings in Uruguay

Prosecutors in Uruguay filed murder charges Sunday against two nurses for at least 16 mercy killings, and jailed the suspects, the judge in charge of the case said. The male nurses, 39 and 46, were charged with homicides of patients both at a private Neurological Intensive Care Center and a public hospital's intermediate-level care unit.

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Asia is world’s top weapon importer - study

India tops the list while Pakistan ranks third largest:

Asia leads the world when it comes to weapon imports, according to a study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Globally the volume of international transfers of major conventional weapons was 24 percent higher in the period 2007-11 compared to the 2002-06 period, the report said.

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Killer blasts hit Syria, UN in humanitarian bid

A third deadly car bombing hit a Syrian city on Sunday, as experts from the UN and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation began a mission to assess the humanitarian impact of the year-long conflict. State media, charging that such bombings were intended to sabotage efforts to find a political solution to Syria’s crisis, said Sunday’s blast in Aleppo had killed two people, one of them a woman, and wounded 30 others.

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