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A GUNMAN  opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon in the parking lot of a Kentucky community college Tuesday, killing two people and injuring a third in what police said was likely a domestic incident.

The shooting rocked the campus of Hazard Community and Technical College in the early evening, police told reporters at a news conference streamed online by local television station WYMT.

"It was not related to the school in any way," Hazard police chief Minor Allen said. "We think it was a domestic-type case."

SOUTH  Korea's top court on Wednesday rejected arguments for reinstating the death sentence imposed on a Chinese national convicted of a gruesome murder that shocked the country.

Wu Yuanchun, an ethnic Korean, was originally sentenced to death for the rape, murder and dismemberment of a 28-year-old woman in the southern city of Suwon in April, 2012.

Wu, a migrant worker, spent six hours cutting the body into 365 pieces and individually wrapping each one in plastic.

GOVERNMENT will take care of Rohingya Muslims in accordance with humanitarian principles, pending an upcoming discussion with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on further assistance for the Rohingya ethnics from Myanmar.

Yingluck told journalists at Bangkok's Government House on Tuesday that a clear measure to further assist the Rohingya Muslims is expected after the forthcoming talks between Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul and UNHCR.

QATAR AIRWAYS 'categorically denies' it is interested in taking up a stake in any Indian airline, Qatar's national carrier said Tuesday in a media statement.

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe said on Tuesday Zimbabweans have developed political tolerance which will see the forthcoming general elections being “friendly” despite the stiff competition that will be there among the parties.

Zimbabwe is due to hold general elections this year, which are expected to end the inclusive government established in 2009 following an inconclusive election in 2008, Zimbabwe's news agency New Ziana reported.

SOUTH KOREA will make another bid at the end of this month to put a satellite in orbit and gain entry to an elite global space club that includes Asian powers China, India and Japan.

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced Wednesday a January 30-February 8 window for launching the 140-tonne Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1) from the Naro Space Centre on the south coast.

"By the end of this week, first and second stages will be connected and next week, rehearsals will take place," a ministry official told AFP.

OFFICIALS scrambled Tuesday to get 18 human heads off to their final destination, a crematorium, after they were seized by US customs inspectors before Christmas at Chicago's main O'Hare airport.

The heads, each tagged with a name plus place and cause of death, had originated in the United States for use at a research facility in Rome, spokeswoman Mary Paleologos of the Cook County medical examiner's office said.

NEW YORK on Tuesday passed what supporters called the toughest gun ownership law in the country, becoming the first US state to impose new restrictions in the wake of last month's elementary school massacre in Connecticut.

Lawmakers in the lower house of the State Assembly voted 104-43 in favour of the measure, which had been approved by the upper house in a 43-18 vote late Monday.

Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, who rushed through the legislation, welcomed the assembly's overwhelming support, saying "we are fighting back."