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Families and friends of the 32 victims of Monday's shootings on the Virginia Tech campus joined thousands of students clad in maroon and orange in chanting "Let's go Hokies!" to end an emotional convocation on campus.

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A surge in the rate of UK inflation sends the pound through the $2 mark for the first time since 1992. More Info...  

Yahoo's latest profits fall 11% as it continues to struggle to catch up with search engine market leader Google. More Info...  

The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki dies hours after being shot while campaigning for re-election. More Info...  

When the hunt for a jail escapee shut down the Virginia Tech campus last August, then-interim police Chief Wendell Flinchum won praise for his calm demeanor and decision-making.

Monday's toll inside Virginia Tech's Norris Hall might have included 11 more students had it not been for a long, rectangular table and a quick-thinking senior who used it to deflect the rampage of his fellow classmate.

England crash out of the World Cup after slumping to a feeble nine-wicket defeat by South Africa in Barbados. More Info...  

South Korea celebrates being named host of the 2014 Asian Games in over the Indian city of Delhi. More Info...  

Pop star Madonna returns to the Malawian orphanage where the boy she is adopting used to live. More Info...  

A US soldier is tried in a Rome court over the killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Baghdad in 2005. More Info...  

An Indian-born professor is among those killed in a massacre at a US university, his relatives confirm. More Info...  

An armed Nigerian Islamist group storms a police station in the northern city of Kano, killing at least 13 people. More Info...  

Just 28% of poor people with HIV have access to the antiretroviral drugs that could save their lives, a study shows. More Info...  

Ukraine's constitutional court examines the legality of a presidential decree dissolving parliament. More Info...  

US author Cormac McCarthy gets the Pulitzer prize for fiction, while Ornette Coleman is honoured for music. More Info...  

Ugandan police fire at protesters angry at the arrest of MPs opposing plans to clear a forest to grow sugar. More Info...  

Shilpa Shetty defends Richard Gere after the star sparked protests by kissing her at an Aids awareness rally in India. More Info...  

The UN calls on Iraq's neighbours not to close their borders to refugees, and other states to do more. More Info...  

Russia starts building the world's first floating nuclear plant, to power an Arctic naval shipyard. More Info...