A teenaged gunman kills 15 people at his former school in Winnenden, Germany, before being killed himself by the police.

Pakistani authorities arrest dozens of lawyers and opposition activists in an effort to thwart a four-day protest march scheduled to begin tomorrow.

Former aides to Saddam Hussein Tariq Aziz and Ali Hassan al-Majid are convicted of crimes against humanity by Iraq’s highest court for the 1992 killing of 42 Baghdad merchants.

Thousands gather for peace vigils in Northern Ireland, in the wake of the murders of two British officers and a policeman by IRA spliter groups.