AN 18-YEAR-OLD armed with an axe, knives and Molotov cocktails attacked his high school in southern Germany yesterday, injuring eight pupils and a teacher before police shot and arrested him, authorities said.

An 18-year-old pupil armed with an axe and knives attacked his school with petrol bombs in Germany today wounding nine classmates before he was shot and arrested.

Germany’s chancellor called today for greater government supervision of gun owners after a school shooting last week that killed 15 people.

The German teenager who shot dead 15 people in a school massacre boasted about what he was going to do the night before in an internet chatroom, police said today.

A teenage gunman in combat clothes ran amok at a German school today killing 15 people, nine of them pupils, before apparently shooting himself.

A teenage gunman shot dead 15 pupils, staff and bystanders at a German school before apparently turning his pistol on himself today.

A WOMAN was convicted of manslaughter yesterday for killing her three newborn babies by stuffing them into plastic bags.

A woman was convicted of manslaughter today for killing her three newborn babies by stuffing them into plastic bags.

IN THE latest case to shock Germany, authorities said yesterday they discovered three dead babies in a freezer and arrested the woman believed to be the mother.

Students and staff of the German high school where a teenager killed himself and 16 others in 2002 today paid tribute to the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting as they marked the fifth anniversary of their own tragedy.

A former student armed with guns and bombs stormed a high school in north-western Germany today, injuring 25 people before he was found dead, police said.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN could miss next weekend’s Woodies DIY national senior track and field championships with a foot problem that has been bothering her for some weeks now.

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MARK CHRISTIE qualified for both the European under-23 championships and the world student games with a career best performance in the 1,500m at the Solihull meet over the weekend and now the Mullingar athlete can’t wait for the BUPA Cork City Sports on Saturday.

The North's James McIlroy is confident he can win his first major title at this weekend’s Spar European Indoor Championships in Madrid.

James McIlroy is determined to get involved in tomorrow’s Leipzig indoor meeting after an unexpected 800 metres victory in Erfurt last night.

THE cross-country season may be just getting into full swing but Mark Christie, who led Ireland’s junior team to the silver medals at the European cross-country championships on Sunday, is already thinking of summer and the track season.

Ryanair has announced it is to close two under-performing routes from next year.

THE description “mouthwatering” would hardly do justice to a meal served up to more than 100 diners in Killarney, Co Kerry, last night.

Snowball fights in July. Mulled wine instead of wine coolers. Thermostats set on high. Spring has come and gone, fall approaches – and Europeans from Oslo to Budapest are still waiting for the summer.

RYANAIR is scrapping nine routes where seat-sells are less than 80% of capacity and reallocating aircraft to new ones.

Ryanair today launched four new daily routes from London Stansted to Austria, Italy, Germany and Spain.

JASON GARDENER showed world-class form yesterday as he sprinted to victory over 60 metres in a time of 6.52 seconds at an indoor meeting in Erfurt, Germany.

A teenager with a pistol who seized four youngsters at a school in south west Germany and demanded a one million euro ransom surrendered after freeing the hostages unharmed, police said.

A teenage gunman has released two of the four youngsters he took hostage today at a school in south-western Germany, police said.

Armed police surrounded a school today in southwest Germany where a gunman holding four young students hostage demanded a ransom of €1m.

Elton John's concert set for Cork has been shelved and will now be performed in Killarney, it was announced today.

Germany wants to give regulators the power to ban violent computer games following the shooting rampage at an Erfurt school last month.

Tens of thousands of mourners packed the main square of a German town today to commemorate the victims of one of the world’s worst school shootings.

Germans paused for a moment of silence today to honour the victims of last week’s school shooting that left 17 dead, while most classes in the stricken city of Erfurt were cancelled to give students a chance to express their grief and fears.

The parents of a teenage gunman who killed 16 people and himself at his former school did not know he had been expelled, German police have said.

An expelled pupil went on a gun rampage in a German school today - killing 17 people including at least two children, before he too died, police said.

Two gunmen, believed to be schoolboys, opened fire wildly inside a German school today, killing 18 people, including two teachers and a policeman.

A gunman has reportedly killed two teachers and one police officer after opening fire inside a German high school today.