TEENAGE gunman Jeff Weise fired 45 times during his rampage through the halls of a Minneapolis high school, killing all seven of his victims in just three minutes.

A rookie security guard who survived the Minnesota school shooting rampage described a frenzied scramble to get pupils out of harm’s way – and said a fellow guard saved lives by sacrificing his own.

Authorities were today trying to determine what caused a teenager to gun down his grandfather, put on the man’s police-issue belt and bullet-proof vest, and drive his marked squad car to a high school, where he began shooting his classmates at will.

There is an escalating problem with secondary school admission, which has been highlighted in Limerick schools, writes Education Correspondent Niall Murray.

THE flagship €750 million terminal at Charles de Gaulle airport may have to be razed after cracking sounds were heard yesterday where a roof collapse had killed four people 24 hours earlier.

The futuristic new terminal at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris may have to be torn down following the deadly collapse of its vaulted roof.

Experts were poring over the wreckage of the showcase terminal at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport today, in the hunt for clues to the horrific cave-in that killed at least five people.

British government moves to fine Sinn Féin over continued paramilitary activity by the IRA are to be challenged in the courts, the party said today.

A plan for a temporary form of devolution in the North to break the political impasse was put to the British and Irish governments in Belfast today.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams described today’s cross-border meeting as an attempt by Mr McGuinness and Ms de Brun to carry out their duties despite Mr Trimble’s ban.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was warned tonight that his sanctions against Sinn Fein were undermining attempts to resolve the issue of paramilitary disarmament.