A 17-year-old girl has been killed after a teenager brandishing a sword attacked students at a school in Sweden, police have confirmed.

Three other people were wounded in the incident during classes in the central town of Fagersta on Friday afternoon, including two boys aged 12 and 17 who sustained minor injuries.

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In a throwaway society, it's good to know that some things are meant to be reused, at least a few times. Polishing pads, thankfully, can be reused as long as they're cared for properly. 

Monrovia, Liberia – Samwar Fallah began receiving calls this week from people in the United States seeking information about 20 relatives sent to Liberia, a country none of them is a citizen of.

Oliver Glasner stood in the centre circle after the final whistle and applauded the rapidly emptying City Ground.

It was almost apologetic from the Austrian after his first Premier League game as Nottingham Forest manager ended in frustration with a late defeat to Leeds.

"We are trying to prove people wrong."

Hull City certainly managed to support their manager Sergej Jakirovic's desire as they shocked Manchester United - and many neutral observers - with a 2-0 win on their return to the Premier League.

Swings and roundabouts!

Sorry folks, some bad news: Neverway, the horror life sim and RPG combo from one of the artists behind Celeste and the composer of Fez, has been delayed into 2027. While it never had an exact release date anyway, developer Coldblood Inc. shared word of the delay in a Steam blog post earlier this week.

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Even though partially funded by the Pentagon, Stars and Stripes has been editorially independent - through a congressional mandate and DoD rules.

The newspaper's Middle East reporter Lara Korte said she had also been told she was fired.

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Jalopnik readers have told us before about what states they'd never buy a car from. But for the most part your rationale had to do with things like Great Lakes rust corridors, the lack of safety standards in the Midwest, or Florida being Florida. What those replies didn't reflect, though, was the economic reality of just how much used car markets can vary from state to state, and how that affects what people end up paying for their new-to-them vehicles.