PHILIPPINES WITH TRAILFINDERS

JOHN GALLIGAN Travel has teamed up with British over 50s operator SAGA Holidays to create a 14-night tour of Europe, which will incorporate a visit to the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria.

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 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.

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

OUTDOORS Ireland is organising a singles adventure weekend from October 30 to November 1 next, with all activities operating from a base at The Sleepy Camel Hostel near Glenbeigh, County Kerry.

JOHN Galligan Travel (JGT) has announced the first cruise from Ireland of the discovery cruise ship Spirit of Adventure.