With the world economy beginning to pick-up on both sides of the Atlantic and wage increases back on the agenda, one US chief executive has increased his company’s minimum wage to $70,000 (€65,800).

A student has opened fire in a US high school cafeteria, killing at least one person and wounding four other students, officials said. The gunman also died in the attack.

The man accused of the Seattle university shooting has told police he wanted to kill as many people as possible before taking his own life.

A student pepper-sprayed a lone gunman who had already killed one man at a US university while he paused to reload, helping to prevent more deaths, police have said.

A lone gunman armed with a shotgun and a knife opened fire in a Seattle university building, killing one person before a student subdued him with pepper spray as he tried to reload.