Las Vegas shooting: Police search for gunman's motive
Police are working to establish the motive behind a mass shooting which left at least 59 dead and another 527 injured at a Las Vegas concert.
Gunman Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel towards an open-air music festival on Sunday evening.
Police found 23 guns in his hotel room, as well as "in excess of" 19 firearms and explosives at his Nevada home.
But as yet, no clear reason for the killing has emerged.
Investigators have found no link to international terrorism, despite a claim from so-called Islamic State. Some investigators have suggested psychological issues, but there is no confirmation of this.
Catalonia holds general strike in protest over referendum violence
Flights and train services could be disrupted during strike to condemn police response to independence vote
Large numbers of Catalans are expected to observe a general strike on Tuesday to condemn police violence at a banned weekend referendum on independence, as Madrid comes under growing international pressure to resolve its worst political crisis in decades.
Flights and train services could be disrupted as well as port operations, after unions called for the stoppage to “vigorously condemn” the police response to the poll, in which Catalonia’s leader said 90% of voters had backed independence from Spain.
Barcelona’s public universities are expected to join the strike, as is the contemporary art museum and the Sagrada Familia, the basilica designed by Antoni Gaudi and one of the city’s most popular tourist sites.
Las Vegas shooting: Iraq veteran steals pick-up truck to save lives after hearing gunfire
Ex-marine drives dozens of wounded to hospital after being caught up in festival massacreChris Baynes
An Iraq veteran caught up in the Las Vegas shooting sprang into action to save lives, stealing a pick-up truck and driving victims to hospital.
Taylor Winston, 29, was at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival with friends when Stephen Paddock began spraying the crowd with automatic gunfire from a nearby hotel.
The former marine at first thought the sound of shots was caused by fireworks before he heard screams and saw bodies fall to the ground.
BSF camp attacked in Srinagar: 2 militants and BSF trooper dead, 2 jawans injured; JeM claims responsibility
Morning flights out of the Srinagar airport were cancelled, more militants suspected to be hiding inside a building at the BSF camp
Toufiq Rashid
Hindustan Times, Srinagar
Gunfire and explosions rang out of a paramilitary complex close to Srinagar airport on Tuesday morning after an attack by militants, officials said. Two of the gunmen and a BSF personnel were killed while two more troopers were injured.
Inspector general Muneer Khan earlier said one militant has been killed and three Border Security Force jawans were injured, adding that at least two more militants were seen to have been hiding inside a building.
Around an hour later, police sources said another militant had been killed, while one of the wounded BSF jawans succumbed to his injuries. “The residential quarters of BSF is safe,” the police source added.
MH370 report: 'Inconceivable and unacceptable' that plane still not found
Updated 0750 GMT (1550 HKT) October 3, 2017
Three and a half years after Malaysian Airlines flight 370 disappeared, investigators say it is "inconceivable" that we are no closer to knowing its ultimate fate.
In January, the governments of Malaysia, Australia and China called off the search for the plane -- which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 -- after more than 1,000 days of scouring a more than 710,000 square kilometer patch of the Indian Ocean.
"The reasons for the loss of MH370 cannot be established with certainty until the aircraft is found," the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said Tuesday in its final report on MH370.
The White Privilege of the “Lone Wolf” Shooter
LAST NIGHT, THE United States experienced the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. At least 58 people are dead and over 500 more wounded. No, that’s not a typo: More than 500 were injured in one, single incident.
As tens of thousands enjoyed a music festival on the streets of Las Vegas, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, of Mesquite, Nevada, was perched 32 floors above them in his Mandalay Bay hotel room. Paddock had 19 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammo — supplies that are plentiful in a nation that has more guns than people. A few minutes after 10 p.m., Paddock opened fire on the unsuspecting crowd. They were sitting ducks.
No expensive wall along the Mexican border would’ve prevented this. No Muslim ban stopping immigrants and refugees from a few randomly selected countries from reaching our shores would’ve slowed this down.
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