A shooting Thursday in North Carolina's capital Raleigh left at least five people dead, including an off-duty police officer, officials in the southeast US city said, adding that a suspect had been captured.

A heavy dust storm swept across several parts of western and northern India on Wednesday, killing at least 97 people and injuring hundreds in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand and leaving a trail of destruction, uprooting trees and disrupting power supply in Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh as well.

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A 16-year-old girl was assaulted and killed by a classmate Friday morning at a Milford,

Connecticut, high school, authorities said.

The attack occurred in a hallway at Jonathan Law High School around 7 a.m. and was witnessed in part by a school staff member, who attempted "life-saving measures" with others, Milford Police Chief Keith Mello said.

A Charlestown, Ind., man shot and killed a leopard that had been prowling in his girlfriend's backyard late last Thursday.



The couple, who did not want to be identified, had been on the lookout for a "bobcat" that they thought had been attacking cats and dogs in the community, a neighbor, Donna Duke, told Kentucky-based news outlet WDRB. Duke said that the man and his girlfriend had taken turn