World Briefs

A gunman opened fire inside a Mexico City subway station during Friday's rush hour, killing at least two people.

Pedro Estrada, of the city's public safety department, said a passenger and police officer were killed at the Balderas subway station. Five others were wounded.

Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38, was arrested carrying a .38-calibre revolver, according to the capital's attorney general.

The gunman was writing on the station walls with a black marker when a police officer confronted him. He fatally shot the officer and a civilian who tried to stop him and then ran to a subway car where he kept shooting until police subdued and captured him. (PA)

Thrilling record

Thousands of Michael Jackson's Mexican fans have won the world record for most people to dance to the song Thriller simultaneously in one place.

Jamie Panas of Guinness World Records has confirmed that 13,597 people performed the dance routine on August 29, which would have been Jackson's 51st birthday.

The fans, many dressed as zombies, danced to Thriller in Mexico City led by a Michael Jackson impersonator in sunglasses, a sequined black jacket and white glove. The previous record was held by a group of 242 students. (PA)

Police killers convicted

A judge in Jamaica has found three men guilty of killing the island's assistant police commissioner.

Gilbert Kameka was on duty when he was shot in November 2007.

Judge Marva McIntosh found Massimassa Adams, 26, Kemar Dawson, 18, and Rohan Townsend, 21, guilty. Each could face the death penalty. (PA)

Diver death pursued

Officials in the US said they would seek a capital murder charge - carrying a possible death sentence - against an Alabama man who is in prison in Australia after pleading guilty to the drowning death of his wife during a honeymoon scuba dive there.

Last week an Australian appeals court increased the sentence for Gabe Watson from one year in prison to 18 months. The 32-year-old pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge in the death of 26-year-old wife Tina Watson in 2003.

Prosecutors in Australia said Watson killed his wife of 11 days by turning off her air supply and holding her under water as they dived at the Great Barrier Reef. (PA)

Age rage at Hillary

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the State Department are being sued by a diplomat who claims she was discriminated against because of her age.

Lawyers for Elizabeth Colton filed a law suit alleging that Clinton and the State Department violated her rights by enforcing a mandatory retirement age and denying her a job at the US Embassy in Algeria.

Colton, 64, alleges she was the top choice for a two-year post in Algiers and accepted the offer, which was later rescinded when officials realised she would reach the retirement age of 65 for foreign service officers after only 16 months on the job. (PA)

Big cat scanned

Officials said they had been called to reports of a cougar wandering computer giant Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington.

Captain Bill Hebner of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife says employees of the software company contacted his agency to report the sighting.

Redmond police say Microsoft security personnel also reported last Thursday that a cougar had been seen, but later said it was a coyote. (PA)

Prisoner places offered

Two more Chinese Muslim detainees held at Guantanamo Bay have agreed to be relocated to the Pacific nation of Palau, bringing to six the total who will resettle.

Palau has offered 13 ethnic Uighurs held at the US military prison in Cuba a chance to move there - an arrangement that would ease President Barack Obama's plans to close the contentious facility.

The men have been held by the US since their capture in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2001. (PA)