CHILDREN as young as six will be given sex education in Malaysian primary schools from next year, an official said, as part of a drive to curb “baby-dumping”, promiscuity and HIV.

A teenage gunman who injured three people at a college in Greece before killing himself had warned of the attack hours earlier in an internet posting, police said today.

The body of a beheaded police officer was found in southern Thailand today, a fellow officer said, in the latest deadly attack in 18 months of sectarian violence and the seventh beheading in the Muslim-dominated area since mid-June.