The soldier who killed three people before committing suicide in an attack on the same Texas military base where more than a dozen people were shot dead in 2009 had shown no recent risks of violence, officials say.

One person was killed and 14 injured in a shooting at the US Army's Fort Hood base in Texas, and officials at the base said the shooter is believed to be dead.

People in Pakistan are praising a teenage boy who died this week while trying to stop a suicide bomber who was targeting his school.

People in Pakistan are praising a teenage boy who died this week while trying to stop a suicide bomber who was targeting his school.

The US Army major who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at a Texas base could become the first American soldier executed in more than half a century after a military jury sentenced him to death.

A US jury has sentenced Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan to death for killing 13 people during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

The US army psychiatrist convicted of the Fort Hood massacre that killed 13 people is due to begin the sentencing phase of his trial possibly facing the death penalty.

The soldier on trial for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood was allowed to continue representing himself after the judge barred his standby attorneys from taking over, despite their claims the Army psychiatrist was trying to secure his own death sentence.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is thought to be holed up at his private compound on the outskirts of Islamabad after a court revoked his bail in a case in which he is accused of treason.

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A military appeals court has postponed indefinitely the court-martial for a US army Major because of a dispute over his beard.

The US Army psychiatrist accused of the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage must enter pleas in the case before his trial begins next week, a judge said.

An 11-year-old boy accused of taking part in anti-government protests in Bahrain may remain at home but must be monitored by authorities, a court has ruled.

Anti-Angela Merkel sentiment in the European press is turning increasingly nasty, but despite the pressure she is under, those close to her say she is not for turning as she sets her sights on re-election, writes Madeline Chambers

DOZENS of young punk rock concert-goers had their heads shaved and body piercings confiscated after police in Indonesia said they were a threat to Islamic values.

Dozens of young punk rock concert goers had their heads shaved and body piercings confiscated after police in Indonesia said they were a threat to Islamic values.

A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander killed in an explosion at an ammunition depot last week was testing an intercontinental missile when the blast happened, his brother was quoted by a government newspaper as saying today.

ANWAR al-Awlaki, a US-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in al-Qaida’s most active branch, using his fluent English and internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks in the United States, was killed yesterday in the mountains of Yemen, US and Yemeni officials said.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in al-Qaida’s most active branch, has been killed in the mountains of Yemen.

IT is not clear why Cork city councillor Joe O’Callaghan has chosen to lob a political grenade into the public domain at this point.

A Texas man was executed early today for killing a convenience store clerk during a shooting spree he said was retaliation for the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks.

THE state needs actively to integrate Muslims into society, to prevent an alienated and possibly violent sub-culture developing, Muslim experts have warned.

A CONTROVERSIAL and highly influential Muslim religious leader, banned from Britain and US, is holding a five-day conference in Ireland with top Muslim clerics from here and abroad.

The discovery of Osama bin Laden’s hideaway in a city at the heart of Pakistan’s military establishment today revived questions about alleged links between al-Qaida and elements in the country’s security forces.

A government official said Pakistani security forces backed by helicopter gunships and jets have killed 54 alleged militants in a north west tribal region near the Afghan border.

The US Army is reprimanding nine officers for leadership failures in connection with the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, and their failure to detect problems with the accused shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

Unarmed soldiers caught up in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage as they were preparing to leave for Afghanistan went into combat mode, playing dead to avoid direct gunfire and refusing to leave their fallen comrades behind, a court heard.

A soldier shot five times said he locked eyes with Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Hasan after the US Army psychiatrist cried “Allahu Akbar” and fired into a crowd of troops preparing for deployment.

Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer have been provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council.

THE family of a five-year-old British boy snatched by gun-wielding raiders in Pakistan has angrily insisted the kidnap was not an “inside job”.

A Pentagon inquiry into the case of the alleged Fort Hood shooter, blamed for killing 13 people, could lead to punishment of up to eight Army officers, a US official said.

The Muslim US major who went on the rampage at Fort Hood army base killing 13 people was a known problem who should have been spotted, a new report says.

The Fort Hood shootings suspect will be examined next month to determine his mental state that day and whether he is competent to stand trial.

A US Army psychiatrist who may face the death penalty after the mass shooting at Fort Hood was charged with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder relating to the scores of soldiers and two civilian police officers injured in the attack, military officials said.

A US Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in an attack on his Texas base will probably plead not guilty and may use an insanity defence at his military trial, his lawyer said.

The US Army will conduct an internal investigation to examine whether it missed warning signs about Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 people in the November 5 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, two newspapers reported.

THE army psychiatrist accused in the fatal shootings at Fort Hood may be paralysed from the waist down after being shot multiple times during the attack, his attorney said yesterday.

The lawyer for the Army psychiatrist accused of killing fellow soldiers at Fort Hood says doctors have told the soldier he may be paralysed from the waist down.

Accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan was coherent during his first meeting with his defence lawyer in a hospital intensive care unit.

US federal agencies are blaming each other over security lapses involving the Fort Hood massacre gunman Nidal Hasan.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama paid tribute yesterday to the 13 victims of the Fort Hood atrocity who could not escape “the horror of war, even in the comfort of home”.

NEARLY a year before Major Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an “assessment” of him before deciding he did not pose a threat.

The FBI knew that the US officer who massacred 13 people at the Fort Hood base had repeated contact with a radical imam overseas.

President Barack Obama will lead mourners at a memorial service held today for the 13 victims of America’s worst shooting atrocity to take place at an army base.