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Police officers on the scene of a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Sept 4.
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US high school student, 14, shoots and kills 4 while wounding 9
A 14-year-old student killed two fellow students and two teachers, while wounding nine others, in a shooting at a Georgia high school on Sept 4, just weeks after classes began, authorities said.
The shooting was the first of the new school year in the US, a stark reminder of the threat of gun violence in schools and colleges across the nation.
The shooting left four dead at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, and nine people were taken to hospitals with various injuries from gunshots, investigators said at a press conference.
The suspect, identified as Colt Gray, 14, a student at the school, was in custody and will be charged and tried as an adult, said Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
‘Only the dad is alive’: Russian missile decimates family
A Russian missile attack on Sept 4 on the Ukrainian city of Lviv killed a woman and her three daughters, leaving their father as the only immediate survivor, Ukrainian officials said.
The strike killed seven people in Lviv, which lies in western Ukraine and is hundreds of kilometres from the front line, has been largely spared the intense strikes that have hit cities further east.
A photo of a family of five standing in the sun, one daughter holding a bouquet of sunflowers, was shared on social media.
Netanyahu says Hamas ‘rejected everything’ in talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sept 4 that Hamas had rejected all elements of a proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza that would help facilitate the release of hostages.
“Hamas has rejected everything... I hope that changes because I want those hostages out,” Mr Netanyahu told a news conference, casting doubt on the possibility of a breakthrough one day after the State Department said it was “time to finalise that deal”.
“We’re trying to find some area to begin the negotiations,” Mr Netanyahu said.
Russian ‘spy whale’ was shot dead, say rights groups
Animal rights groups said on Sept 4 that gunfire had killed a beluga whale that rose to fame in Norway after its unusual harness sparked suspicions that the creature was trained by Russia as a spy.
The organisations Noah and One Whale said they have filed a complaint with Norwegian police asking them to open a criminal investigation.
Nicknamed “Hvaldimir” in a pun on the Norwegian word for whale, hval, and its purported ties to Moscow, the white beluga first appeared off the coast in Norway’s far-northern Finnmark region in 2019.
Pole vaulter beats hurdler in 100m sprint showdown
Pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis is rarely beaten and he outsprinted 400m hurdler Karsten Warholm in the hotly-anticipated 100 metres exhibition race in Zurich on Sept 4, which brought the two world record holders together in a neutral event.
Duplantis was quickest off the blocks and finished with a very respectable time of 10.37 seconds, with Warholm trailing all the way and posting 10.47.
The idea for the race came after some friendly banter between the pair in training in 2023, and when the sprint was finally scheduled after the Paris Olympics were out of the way, it captured the imagination of athletics fans worldwide.
