AFTER mistaken reports in the aftermath of the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas that the gunmen responsible for the killings was shot dead, it has emerged that suspect Nadil Malik Hasan is alive and being treated at the base hospital.

Recordings of emergency calls as a gunman rampaged through a fast-food restaurant captured the screams, moans and chaos after he murdered a paramedic and fired at terror-stricken customers.

A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at a US university today, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in US history.

THE US military death toll in the 2 1/2 year Iraq war reached the milestone of 2,000 last night with the announcement by the Pentagon of a US soldier who died at a hospital in Texas over the weekend.