SAN DIEGO - A MECHANIC shot and killed one co-worker and critically injured another on Tuesday before police killed the gunman at a city bus complex in downtown San Diego, authorities said.

The shooter was identified as a mechanic on automated bus fare boxes who had worked for the Metropolitan Transit System for about 30 years, agency spokesman Rob Schupp said.

FORT BRAGG (North Carolina, USA) - SOLDIERS in a recovery unit for wounded troops at Fort Bragg told the Secretary of the Army that they feel forgotten by the military and that combat duty would be better than the treatment they get now according to a memo obtained by the Associated Press.

The memo summarised the comments of soldiers who attended a closed-door meeting last week with Army Secretary Pete Geren.

WASHINGTON - PRESIDENT Barack Obama says he will make sure the US stays on the offensive in the war in Afghanistan.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, the president was giving no details of his administration's review of how to proceed in Afghanistan.