A gunman clad in camouflage clothing went on the rampage in a Finnish town centre on Saturday killing two teenagers and wounding several others. Police said an 18-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the shootings.
A man set himself alight on Tuesday outside the court in Norway where Anders Behring Breivik is facing trial for attacks last July that left 77 people dead. The man, whose motivations remain unknown, was transported to a nearby hospital.
Confessed Norwegian killer Anders Breivik defended his sanity on Monday after a forensic panel questioned a psychiatric report that declared him sane in the eyes of the law. Breivik has said being labeled insane would be a fate worse than death.
The neighbourhood watch volunteer who killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin left jail on $150,000 bail Monday and immediately went into hiding. George Zimmerman (pictured) is awaiting trial for second-degree murder in the killing of Martin.
Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to killing 77 people in attacks last July, told an Oslo court Monday that he wanted to apologise for the "innocent" people he killed in his Oslo bombing, but not for the youths he killed in Utoeya.
Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to killing 77 people in attacks last July, told an Oslo court on Friday how he systematically shot scores of people on Utoya Island, noting that many of his victims were too scared to run.
The man charged in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin can be released on $150,000 bail, a judge ruled on Friday. George Zimmerman (centre) will be banned from using firearms, drinking alcohol and must observe a curfew as he awaits trial.
Anders Breivik, confessed killer of 77 people on a one-day rampage in and near Oslo last July, told a court on Friday that he was a "nice person" before training himself to suppress his emotions in order to carry out the attacks.
Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to killing 77 people in attacks in and near Oslo last July, told a court on Thursday that he had planned to decapitate Norway's former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and post the video on the Internet.
Anders Behring Breivik told an Oslo court on Wednesday that there were only two “legitimate” outcomes of his trial: acquittal or the death penalty, but admitted that neither was “realistic”. He added that a 21-year sentence would be “pathetic”.
