World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is hanging tough in the face of growing internal criticism over his management style and his role in giving a pay raise and promotion to his companion, Shaha Riza.
The tragedy in Blacksburg, Va., has led one columnist for the Guardian--the student newspaper of Wright State University in Ohio--to urge his classmates to get active about gun control laws. "I would like to point out that new Ohio legislation is NOT helping to prevent similar senseless massacres from happening at WSU," he writes.--K.T.
AP - Midway through his murderous rampage, the Virginia Tech gunman went to the post office and mailed NBC a package containing photos and videos of him brandishing guns and delivering a snarling, profanity-laced tirade about rich "brats" and their "hedonistic needs."
AP - Cell phone text messages. Loudspeakers on towers. Cameras that detect suspicious activity. Colleges and universities are considering these and other measures in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre, seeking to improve how they get the word out about emergencies to thousands of students across sprawling campuses.
AP - Suspected Sunni insurgents penetrated the Baghdad security net Wednesday, hitting Shiite targets with four bomb attacks that killed 183 people the bloodiest day since the U.S. troop increase began nine weeks ago.
Relations between London and Moscow threaten to plummet to a new low amid renewed Russian demands for action against Boris Berezovsky's claim that he is plotting to overthrow Vladimir Putin.
Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui said in a video mailed to NBC News that his shooting rampage could have been avoided but "you forced me into a corner." In another of the disturbing videos the killer alleges: "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today."
Edward Falco is aware not just of the shock and mourning engulfing the campus of Virginia Tech, but also feels the guilt and second-guessing afflicting students and faculty. Falco is the playwriting professor of Cho Seung-Hui, the student who police say killed at least 30 people on the campus before committing suicide. He says Cho's fellow students should feel no guilt.
Had they lived, they might have gone on to change the world as teachers, military officers or engineers -- but the killer who cut so many lives short at Virginia Tech snatched all that away.