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. Rear exit blocked by car to stop people escaping . Suspect used front door and opened fire with rifleThe small upstate New York town of Binghamton became the latest community to suffer the horror of gun rampage in America when a gunman yesterday killed 13 people at an immigrant counselling centre where many of his victims were studying to become US citizens.The carnage at the american Civic Association, a language and help centre for immigrants from all over the world settled in New York state, had all the hallmarks of being premeditated. The gunman, still unidentified last night, drove his car to the back of the building and parked it tight against the rear door - preventing those inside from escaping.He then entered the front door armed with two handguns, shot both receptionists, one fatally and the other in the stomach.The wounded receptionist managed to sound the alarm by mobile phone at 10.31 am. Police were on the scene within two minutes and Swat teams four minutes later, but

More than one in 10 teachers are bullied by pupils and colleagues through text messages, emails and social networking sites, new research shows.Schools are increasingly expected to teach pupils about new technologies - but the findings suggest students are using their skills to hound staff.A former music teacher in the south-west of England said: 'Nasty text messages full of abuse may be little things in themselves but, after time, they meant I couldn't face going into school.'Of those who had suffered cyberbullying personally, 63% had received unwelcome emails, 26% had offensive messages posted about them on social networking sites such as Facebook or Rate My Teacher, and 28% were sent unwelcome text messages, according to the survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the Teacher Support Network.A London-based modern languages teacher said: 'My inbox was at one point filled with the most hateful and upsetting emails from an anonymous address. I knew there were pictures t

The end of 2008 was a real bad time for chip makers. It didn't get much better in early 2009, either.

Until this week, the major analyst houses have said the current recession is not as bad as what the tech sector suffered though in 2001 and 2002 after the dotcom bubble popped. Forrester, IDC, and Gartner still all agree that IT spending is down, but whether this recession is worse than the dotcom fallout is now a matter of debate.The fact that analysts were maintaining that IT is not in as much trouble today as it was during the last recession has served as something of a beacon of hope for tech workers.[ Learn more about how the financial crisis is affecting IT and the high-tech industry, plus what IT can do to help, in InfoWorld's special report. ]But that changed earlier in the week when Gartner issued a report saying that 2009 will be worse than 2001. The analyst house projected global IT spending would decline by nearly 4 percent this year over last, citing a 'general slowdown in demand for products and services across the board,' to which IT is not immune.While Forrester and IDC

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults who suffer migraine headaches are more apt to have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than the general population, a new study suggests. And having PTSD and migraine may lead to greater headache-related disability.

 Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have put their adoption plans on the backburner as the couple deal with their troubled relationship, reports claim. A recent US tabloid report revealed that the celebrity duo hoped to adopt another child this year, yet instead have called in Angelina’s brother,  James Haven, to act as a mediator between them. The [...]

The mother who is facing double-murder charges in the deaths of her two young girls had been suffering from depression for some time and was suicidal, her husband's lawyer says.

Iain Thomson in san francisco, vnunet.com, Friday 3 April 2009 at 02:15:00Companies reportedly close to finalising a dealReports in The Wall Street Journal claim thatIBM is close tofinalisinga deal to buySunMicrosystems.IBM is said to be offering $9.55 (£6.48) a share for Sun, which would valuethe company at around $7bn (£4.75bn). Shares in Sun are currently trading ataround $8.20 (£5.56) and have risen today on the news.However, the reports indicate that Sun is trying to negotiate a deal in whichit will co-operate as long as IBM agrees to rigorously defend the merger againstanti-trust actions, which remain a considerable worry.A combined IBM and Sun would control the vast majority of the tape storagemarket, and nearly two thirds of the high-end Unix server market. Competitorslike Dell would be highly likely to appeal to regulators over the deal.Sun apparently fears that, if the deal is called off for anti-trust reasons,its stock price will suffer, as Yahoo

Andy Murray crushes Fernando Verdasco 6-1 6-2 in Miami but Rafael Nadal suffers a shock defeat to Juan Martin del Potro.