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| Suspect in Mississippi campus shooting apologised in note for killing | | | A man suspected of gunning down a Mississippi college professor and killing his live-in girlfriend before taking his own life left behind a note apologising for his actions, police said on Tuesday. Police said Lamb, 45, shot and killed Amy Prentiss, 41, at the home they shared in Gautier, Mississippi before driving 300 miles (480 km) to Delta State, where he fatally shot colleague Ethan Schmidt, an assistant professor of American history. |
| Study finds young people on antidepressants more prone to violence | | | By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Young people taking antidepressants such as Prozac and Seroxat are significantly more likely to commit violent crimes when they are on the medication, but taking higher doses of the drugs appears to reduce that risk, scientists said on Tuesday. In research published in the PLoS Medicine journal, the scientists said that while their finding of a link does not prove that such drugs cause people to be more violent, further studies should be conducted and extra warnings may be needed in future when they are prescribed to people aged 15 to 24. Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) are a class of widely prescribed drugs, including fluoxetine, branded by Eli Lilly as Prozac, and GlaxoSmithKline's paroxetine, branded as Paxil or Seroxat, designed to ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. |
| Bill Cosby seeks to dismiss AIG insurance lawsuit | |  Bill Cosby, citing financial pressures, asked a federal judge to dismiss or put on hold a lawsuit in which American International Group Inc seeks to avoid paying for his defense against defamation claims by women who also accused him of sexual abuse. AIG had in June sued Cosby in Massachusetts and California over homeowner's insurance policies it issued to him in those states. It said these provide coverage for personal injury claims, which include defamation, but not for personal injury claims arising from "sexual, physical or mental abuse." Cosby is defending against defamation lawsuits by Tamara Green, Therese Serignese, Linda Traitz in Massachusetts, and the model Janice Dickinson in California, spurred by denials by the entertainer or his representatives of claims of sexual misconduct.
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| French PM Valls says no compromise with Syria's Assad possible | |  France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Tuesday a deal with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to reach a political transition was impossible, but said Paris would back regional ground troops if they were to intervene against Islamic State militants. President Francois Hollande on Monday said that French air strikes against the group in Syria would be necessary, a change in position after previously warning any such action could reinforce Assad. "We will do nothing to strengthen the regime," Valls said in a speech to parliament to explain France's decision to launch reconnaissance flights and future action over Syria.
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| Zimbabwe arrests man linked to Cecil killer on new wildlife charges | | | Theo Bronkhorst already faces trial on Sept. 28 on charges of breaching hunting rules by helping an American dentist kill the 13-year-old rare black-manned Cecil outside Hwange wildlife park. The lion's death sparked a global outcry from animal lovers. |
| GE to move turbine jobs to Europe, China due to EXIM bank closure | |  By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co said on Tuesday it will move 500 U.S. power turbine manufacturing jobs to Europe and China because it can no longer access U.S. Export-Import Bank financing after Congress allowed the agency's charter to lapse in June. The largest U.S. industrial conglomerate said France's COFACE export agency has agreed to support some of GE's global power project bids with a new line of credit in exchange for moving production of heavy-duty gas turbines to Belfort, France, along with 400 jobs. GE also said 100 additional jobs involved in packaging aeroderivative gas turbines will move next year from outside of Houston to Hungary and China.
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| India probing Kingfisher Airlines over alleged financial irregularities | |  India's financial fraud investigating agency has sought information from drinks company United Spirits Ltd in connection with a probe into former group firm Kingfisher Airlines Ltd over alleged diversion of funds. The agency is looking into alleged financial irregularities from 2005, when liquor baron Vijay Mallya's UB Group controlled both companies, TV channel CNBC TV18 reported on Tuesday. United Spirits, India's largest spirits company and now controlled by Britain's Diageo, said in a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange on Tuesday that it was cooperating with the investigating authority, the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), in a probe of Kingfisher Airlines and was providing the required information.
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| Malaysia to help arrange for Swiss to interview witnesses in 1MDB probe | |  Switzerland's federal prosecutor said on Tuesday that Malaysia had agreed to arrange for Swiss investigators to interview witnesses in their investigation of alleged corruption and money laundering related to the Malaysian state-owned fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). In a statement, Switzerland's Office of Attorney General said that its chief, Michael Lauber, met on Tuesday with his Malaysian counterpart, Tan Sri Dato Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali, to discuss "mutual cooperation" in the 1MDB case. Lauber is currently hosting a meeting in Zurich of the International Prosecutors' Association.
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| Malaysia's attorney-general says Najib not linked to Mongolian model's murder | |  Malaysia's attorney-general on Tuesday said Prime Minister Najib Razak had no connection to the 2006 murder of a Mongolian woman, following a documentary on the subject broadcast last week by Doha-based network Al Jazeera. Najib is facing the biggest crisis of his political career after media reports of a mysterious transfer of more than $600 million into an account under his name, but he has denied any wrongdoing in connection with the funds. Model and translator Altantuya Shaariibuu was murdered in 2006 and her body was blown up with military grade explosives in a forest on the outskirts of Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur.
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| Britain proposes paramilitary watchdog to break N.Ireland impasse | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and Conor Humphries LONDON/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain on Tuesday proposed the creation of an independent watchdog to monitor paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland after a shooting linked to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) threatened to unravel a two-decade old peace deal. The region's pro-British First Minister Peter Robinson, who last week walked out of a power-sharing government with Irish nationalists Sinn Fein, said he would need more details before deciding if his party would commit to multi-party talks. A 1998 peace deal largely ended three decades of sectarian violence between Catholics who want a united Ireland and Protestants who want Northern Ireland to remain British.
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