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SUNDVOLLEN (Reuters) – Norwegian police searched for more victims and a possible second gunman yesterday after a suspected right-wing zealot killed up to 98 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack.

(Reuters) – The man suspected of Norway’s gun and bomb massacre liked guns and weight-lifting, had belonged to an anti-immigration party and opposed multi-culturalism, Islam and the “cultural Marxists” of the establishment.

DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) – Aid agencies cannot reach more than two million Somalis facing starvation in the famine-struck country where Islamist militants control much of the worst-hit areas, the UN’s food agency said yesterday.

BEIJING (Reuters) – At least 32 people died when a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in China’s eastern Zhejiang province yesterday, state media said, raising new questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Scores of people were injured in Cairo yesterday when thousands of demonstrators fought opponents with stones on their march to the Defence Ministry to urge their military rulers to speed up reforms, witnesses said.

LONDON (Reuters) – Amy Winehouse, one of the most talented singers of her generation whose hit song “Rehab” summed up her struggles with addiction, died in London yesterday at the age of 27.

OSLO, (Reuters) – A gunman dressed in police uniform  opened fire at a youth camp of Norway’s ruling political party  yesterday, killing at least 80 people, hours after a bomb killed  seven in the government district in the capital Oslo.

NESLANDET, Norway, (Reuters) – Norwegian teenagers  at a lakeside summer camp fled screaming in panic, many leaping  into the water to save themselves, when an attacker dressed as a  policeman began spraying them with gunfire.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker John  Boehner broke off talks with President Barack Obama yesterday  on a deficit-reduction deal to prevent a devastating default  and said he would try to hammer out an agreement through the  Senate.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Euro zone leaders have agreed  on a bold rescue package for debt-stricken Greece and will give  their financial rescue fund sweeping new powers to prevent  market instability spreading through the region.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Efforts to craft a broad $3  trillion deficit-reduction deal gained traction yesterday as  the White House and top lawmakers scrambled to sort through  competing options and stave off a devastating U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters)- Scotland Yard investigators have  cryptic financial records corroborating suspicions that former  News of the World editor Andy Coulson knew about illegal  payments to police officers, a source with knowledge of the  matter told Reuters.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Reuters) – The space shuttle  Atlantis returned from NASA’s final shuttle mission yesterday, ending a 30-year era that opened the space frontier,  exposed its dangers and established a toehold for future  endeavors beyond Earth.

GEORGE TOWN, (Reuters) – Cayman Islands Premier W.  McKeeva Bush is being investigated by police over “an alleged  financial irregularity” in the British-ruled Caribbean  territory, the governor’s office said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Crowds flocked to waterfronts  and swimming pools on the U.S.

BLANTYRE, (Reuters) – At least 18 people have been  killed in clashes between police and demonstrators during  violent nationwide protests against President Bingu wa  Mutharika, the Malawian health ministry said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Cable & Wireless Worldwide   suffered a backlash from investors over executive  bonuses yesterday, reflecting shareholder anger at chairman  John Pluthero being given a second stint as chief executive  after the group issued a string of profit warnings.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – The United Nations said yesterday two regions of southern Somalia had been hit by the  worst famine in the area for 20 years and that 3.7 million  people in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation risked starvation.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron,  defending his integrity to parliament in emergency session yesterday, said he regretted hiring a journalist at the heart of  a scandal that has rocked Britain’s press, police and politics.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The White House signaled on  Wednesday it could support a short-term increase in the U.S.