THOUSANDS of people fled central Brisbane yesterday as the panicked city braced for its worst flooding in 120 years, after terrifying flash floods left 10 dead and 78 missing.

CHO SEUNG-HUI’S writing was so disturbing he was referred to the university’s counselling service.

Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in US history got another scare this morning as police in commando gear with weapons drawn swarmed the building which houses the president’s office.

The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner known as “the question mark kid”, who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s conservative government today refused to support a plan by state leaders to introduce caps on carbon dioxide emissions, saying it would devastate the economy.