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DEKALB, Ill. - A man dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns from the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University yesterday, killing five people and injuring several others before committing suicide, authorities said.

The photograph appeared inside The Times-Picayune’s metro section on Wednesday and in various presentations on nola.com. The image of the mayor smiling and holding a weapon kicked off controversy all day Wednesday on talk radio and in internet postings.

MANILA, Philippines — Authorities have uncovered alleged plots by Al Qaeda-linked militants to assassinate the Philippine president and bomb foreign embassies, officials said Thursday.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts on the International Space Station slowly brought Europe’s new space laboratory to life on Tuesday as crewmate Hans Schlegel, forced by illness to miss the spacewalk to install it, said he was feeling fine.

An Arkansas day care teacher is charged with raping a 4-year-old girl during nap time. Police say the incident was caught on closed-circuit video, 4029tv.com reports.

WASHINGTON: The Senate voted to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods that have been used by the CIA against high-level terrorism suspects, setting up a confrontation with President George W. Bush, who has threatened to veto the bill.

BEIJING, China (AP) — Efforts to link China to the Darfur crisis are “irresponsible and unfair,” a government spokesman said in comments published Thursday, following director Steven Spielberg’s decision to drop out as a Beijing Olympics adviser on human rights grounds.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan joined a protest Wednesday seeking the support of Egypt’s first lady in ending a military trial of members of the country’s largest Islamic organization.

A strong earthquake has struck southern Greece, shaking buildings over an area from the southern Peloponnese region to the capital, Athens.

Washington — A prominent civil rights leader has told the Democratic National Committee that refusing to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan would disenfranchise both states’ minority communities.

A video grab off the Hezbollah-run Manar Television shows the broadcast of Koranic verses, a tradition following the death of an important person in the Muslim world. A Hezbollah official has said that one of the Shiite militant group’s top commanders, Imad Mughnieh, had been killed in Syria and blamed Israel for the attack.

At just 2ft 9in, Indian muscleman Aditya ‘Romeo’ Dev is the world’s smallest bodybuilder.Pint-sized Romeo is well-known in his hometown of Phagwara, India - for his ability to lift 1.5kg dumbbells - despite his overall 9kg body weight.

Global warming could bring about a veritable insect explosion, if past performance is an indication of future gains.

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers, including one that buzzed an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific during the weekend, The Associated Press has learned.

PHOENIX — A dried and decomposing body was found in a bathtub filled with dirt in a Phoenix apartment that was stacked to the ceiling with garbage and human waste.