NEW YORK - A GUNMAN walked into an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton on Friday, killing 12 people and wounding at least twenty-six others, officials said. The gunman himself is dead.

Two handguns were recovered at the scene, said a law enforcement official who was not authorised to speak publicly about the details of an ongoing hostage situation and was speaking on condition of anonymity.

MOGADISHU - A MAN who calls himself an American promotes holy war in Somalia in a video posted this week on an Islamic militant Web site.

A US government contractor who tracks extremist propaganda says the footage is the first to show what may be an American with a senior role in al-Shabab, a Somali group the State Department considers a terrorist organization with links to al-Qaida.

NEW YORK - A GUNMAN walked into an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton on Friday, killing 12 people and wounding at least twenty-six others, officials said. The gunman himself is dead.

Two handguns were recovered at the scene, said a law enforcement official who was not authorised to speak publicly about the details of an ongoing hostage situation and was speaking on condition of anonymity.