The schoolgirl pulled a handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside and outside the school in the small city of Rigby, Idaho, a sheriff said.

Local media suggested a home-made explosive device was planted on a motorcycle parked near his car.

Iron ore hit a record $US200 a tonne on Friday as concerns about Beijing’s dispute with Canberra prompt China’s importers to store up the critical resource.

The bloodshed lays bare Brazil’s perennial divide over whether, as a common local saying goes, “a good criminal is a dead criminal”.

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The letters underscore the former US president’s reputation as a womaniser.

It follows a decision in April to steer adults under 30 away from the Oxford-designed jab over the rare risk of blood clots. But Germany has gone the other way.

Young protesters against military rule in Myanmar have come up with new ways to reduce the chances of a deadly response by the authorities.

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday voiced support for a waiver in a sharp reversal of the US position, and his top trade negotiator.

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The United States is running out of people willing to get vaccinated, forcing governments and businesses to deploy unusual techniques to sway the hesitant.

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Others say a waiver would enable more manufacturers across the globe to produce vaccines and help combat dwindling supply.

A Chinese tabloid characterised reports that the rocket is “out of control” and could cause damage as “Western hype.”

Trump was banned from Twitter, where he had more than 88 million followers, and multiple other social media platforms following the deadly January 6 siege of the US Capitol by his supporters. 

Some questioned whether police were flouting a court ruling last year that forbade them from storming favelas during the pandemic unless under “absolutely exceptional” circumstances. 

The pandemic upended the use of zippered pants and changed people’s eating and drinking habits. There are now indications that it has caused some Americans to abandon washing themselves.

In the town of Susner in Madhya Pradesh state, patients were being treated outdoors under trees, on blankets on the ground.

French fishermen angry over loss of access to waters off their coast have gathered their boats in protest off the English Channel island of Jersey.

There is no time to lose in transitioning to a world run on clean technology but it will have its risks and obstacles, write two senior European lawmakers.

Beijing’s decision to suspend a high-level economic dialogue with Australia has no practical effect. But it conveys important information nonetheless.

China has sent a message that dialogue at the political level will be cut off after the superpower suspended the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue.

Health authorities are quarantining all patients and staff within the compound until they can determine who had contact with the coronavirus patient.

The former journalist, popular television host and finance minister has been given a chance to oust Benjamin Netanyahu.

The decision was made following the detection of two community cases in Sydney.

The explosion of frustration could presage unrest across Latin America, where several countries face the same combustible mix of health and economic crises.

You can’t force a company to provide service to a jerk. That is the simple truth behind the Facebook and Insta ban on the former president.

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The details of the waterfront compound have been kept incredibly private by the Gates family — so much so that a tour of the property went for $45,000 at a charity auction.

Usually, discarded core rockets reenter soon after lift-off normally over water and don’t go into orbit like this one did.

China’s response to European sanctions for its human rights violations has blown up a trade deal seven years in the making and pushed Europe closer to the US.

As prosecutors and police officers chatted over coffee, local mobsters were watching and listening.

A post-Brexit dispute has escalated as 100 French fishing boats plan to block Jersey’s port and France threatens to cut off the island’s power.

The US pair say they had acted in self defence because they thought the two police officers were thugs out to get them after a botched attempt to buy drugs.

Researchers say the flat-to-plump pasta is not only fun to make but uses less packaging, has a smaller carbon footprint and cooks faster than traditional dried pasta.

While some jokingly predicted a baby boom when the pandemic first struck, many experts suggested the reverse might happen.

The US, home to some of the world’s largest and most profitable pharmaceutical companies, has previously been a fierce defender of intellectual property rights.

The French President wades into a culture war over one of the country’s most famous historical figures, warning against judging the past with values of the present.

About one-fifth of all cases of COVID-19 in Canada have occurred in children and teenagers. The government sees vaccinating young people as a key to halting the virus.

Israel’s President has asked Yair Lapid, a centrist politician and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strongest rival, to try to form a new government.

Facebook’s independent oversight board has upheld the social media giant’s decision to suspend former president Donald Trump from the platform.

Researchers have confirmed the oldest known human burial site in Africa - a young boy buried at least 78,000 years ago.

Two delegates from India have tested positive, and as a result, the entire delegation is now self-isolating.

Despite its small size, the nation controls one of the biggest exclusive economic zones in the world, covering more than 3.5 million square kms of the Pacific.

She also criticised William Barr for spinning the investigation’s findings before the report was released, allowing Trump to claim he had been exonerated.

Similar motions in the parliaments of the United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands have condemned the abuse as “genocide”.

The EU’s trade commissioner announced that a lucrative trade deal between the bloc and the superpower would not go ahead while sanctions were in place.

Australia’s first batch of 20,000 AstraZeneca doses arrived in Dili on Wednesday but health experts believe our vaccine support should be accelerated.

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The business hub has tightened restrictions on its population and on incoming travellers as it confronts its first significant cluster of COVID-19 cases in months.