Flags were flying at half staff across Finland on Thursday as the Nordic nation mourned the victims of a high school shooting that left nine people dead, including the teenage gunman. Police identified the gunman as Pekka-Eric Auvinen, an 18-year-old student at the Jokela High School in southern Finland.

Finland's relaxed gun laws are set to face criticism after an 18-year-old gunman shot dead seven children and a head teacher at a school.T he gunman then turned the weapon on himself at Jokela High School and died later in hospital.

The teenager who killed eight people in a high school shooting in Finland was a social outcast who was bullied in school but appears to have picked his victims randomly, a senior police official said.

A gunman killed eight people in a high school in Tuusula, some 40 miles (60 km) from the capital Helsinki in southern Finland, before turning the gun on himself. MSN UK News pinpoints the location of the tragedy on this Windows Live Map.

At least eight people were killed when a teenaged gunman opened fire at a school in southern Finland on Wednesday, hours after a video was posted on YouTube predicting a massacre there. The gunman was a pupil and he had walked through the school firing into classroom after classroom. Share your reactions here.

Oil paintings by notorious gangland killer Ronnie Kray are to go to auction, but how do you rate the artistic endeavours of this infamous East End gangster?

Breeders and revellers from all over Peru have made their way to the town of Huacho for the country’s third annual guinea pig festival.