10 METRO Friday, November 6, 2009 D Gunmen kill 12 at Texas army baseBY ANNE GEARANA KILLING spree at a military base in Texas left 12 people dead and 31 wounded last night. One gunman was shot dead and two other suspects were arrested at the Fort Hood army base, south of Waco. They were all soldiers. According to sources one of the men was Major Malik Nadal Hasan. The shooting began at 1.30pm lo- cal time at a personnel and medical processing office, which handles ad- ministrative details for soldiers. One gunman was reportedly carrying two handguns at the time. President Brack Obama said: This is a horrific outburst of violence. My immediate thoughts and prayers are with the wounded and with the families of the fallen. It is horrifying that they should come under fire within an Army base on American soil, he added. Base commander Lieutenant Gen- eral Bob Cone said: This is a terri- ble tragedy. Stunning. Fort Hood is a sprawling 550sq km (340sq miles) military installa- tion. It houses 4,929 active duty of- ficers and 45,414 enlisted members of the army. METROWorld CHINA: The Ministry of Health has banned the use of physical punishment to wean teens off the net, months after a 15-year-old boy was beaten to death at an internet boot camp. Parents have turned to more than 200 organisations offering treatment for internet disorders as the government increasingly warns of unhealthy internet habits among the young. Many of the camps are imbued with a military atmosphere. Patients are forced to replace hours in front of the computer with arduous physical drills or even more extreme treatments. But draft guildelines would strictly prohibit restriction of personal freedom and physical punishments. BRAZIL: A bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral. Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified a badly disfigured corpse as the victim of a car crash in Parana state in southern Brazil. But Goncalves had instead spent the night drinking at a truck stop with friends and turned up alive. MALAysIA: A prince has won a defamation suit against his teenage wife who accused him in the media of physical torture and treating her like a sex slave. The High Court ruled in favour of Tengku Fakhry Ismail Petra because his socialite wife, who has fled back to her native Indonesia, sent no lawyers to represent her. The prince had sought 105million ringgit (30million) damages from Manohara Odelia Pinot (pictured) and her mother. It is doubtful whether he can secure the money but his lawyer said he was more concerned with clearing his name. AMeRICA: A bus driver involved in a crash that killed 11 people last year has been sentenced to 26 years in prison. Quintin Watts was behind the wheel of a bus carrying a group of mostly elderly Hmong and Mien immigrants from the Sacramento area to a casino in October last year when the bus veered off a rural Colusa County road in northern California and rolled over. He apparently dozed off at the wheel, leading to the crash. Watts was convicted last month of 11 counts of gross vehicular manslaughter and 21 counts of great bodily injury. Prosecutors say the 53-year-old will have to serve 85 per cent of his sentence, making him eligible for parole when he is 75. TAIwAN: Premier Wu Den-yih yesterday justified a trip he took to Indonesia with a notorious gangster, saying the man was rehabilitated after serving 15 years in jail. The opposition, however, was not buying it and called on Mr Wu (pictured) to resign. He justified his association with convicted gangster Chiang Chin-liang after they travelled to the resort island of Bali together last December, saying: I would not have made contact with him if I thought he still posed a threat to society. Chiang is described as a murderer, extortionist and gunrunner. AfgHANIsTAN: The United Nations has announced it is to start pulling out hundreds of its international staff after an attack by Taliban militants almost ten days ago killed five of its foreign staff. UN spokesman Aleem Siddique said the organisation would relocate 600 of its 1,100 international staff, with some being moved to safer sites within Afghanistan while the rest would be withdrawn from the country. The UN has been in Afghanistan for half a century and we are not about to leave now. The Afghan people want us to stay, said Mr Siddique. The figure of staff to be evacuated was less than an earlier report suggesting 900 staff would be moved. to safety. Snakes on her frame: A model wears an outfit by designer Mao Geping at China Fashion Week in Beijing Picture: Reuters v1 index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html