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By Philip Pullella REUTERS Pope Benedict XVI waits prior to a private audience with Macedonia's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski at the Vatican. The Vatican, embroiled for months in the so-called "Vatileaks" scandal involving the leak of secret papers, said on Friday its police had detained a person in possession of confidential documents. A Vatican statement said the person was being questioned by Vatican

Associated Press HELSINKI - An 18-year-old gunman killed one person and wounded eight others in what appeared to be a random shooting in a southern Finnish town, police said Saturday, May 26. Officers arrested the suspect outside Hyvinkaa, some five hours after he fired several shots at people from a low rooftop just before 2 a.m.

DAMASCUS: UN observers rushed on Saturday to a town in central Syria where scores of civilians were reportedly massacred, including 25 children, as the opposition renewed calls for air strikes on regime forces. The shelling of the town of Houla by regime forces, which began at around midday on Friday and continued until dawn on Saturday, killed more than 90 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

11:02 26/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) Tags: Satu Koivisto, Finland A gunman has killed one woman and injured other eight in a shooting rampage in Finland, the Finnish news portal hbl.fi reported on Saturday referring to police. The shootings occurred in the early hours in the center of Hyvinkaa, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the capital, Helsinki.

After finishing fastest in qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix, Michael Schumacher is not about to get ahead of himself. Schumacher is still enjoying his racing and is improving with the Mercedes team [GALLO/GETTY] Michael Schumacher's chances of racing on in Formula One next year looked a lot more likely on Saturday after a pole- worthy performance by the 43-year- old Mercedes driver in Monaco Grand Prix qualifying.