A young Finnish man who killed 10 people at his former school this week played computer games with a teen who carried out a similar massacre, a friend said. Matti Saari, 22, took his own life after shooting a teacher and nine students at the high school in Kauhajoki.

The internet college massacre gunman left notes saying he wanted to kill as many people as possible, it emerged yesterday. Matti Saari, who shot dead nine students, eight of them women, and a male tutor, "really went out with the intention of killing," police chief Jari Neulaniemi said.

Text of report in English by Finish conservative newspaper Helsingin Sanomat International Edition website, on 25 September [Unattributed report: "NBI To Monitor Internet More Closely"] Interior Ministry blocks access of ordinary police to YouTube The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is upgrading its monitoring of the Internet for about a month, said National Police Commissioner Mikko Paatero on Wednesday [ 24 September].

By Marius Turula Associated Press KAUHAJOKI, Finland -- This sparsely populated nation near the Arctic Circle has long clung to an ethos of rugged individualism where, unlike in most of Western Europe, the right to bear arms is deeply ingrained in the culture.

World in brief KAUHAJOKI The student who shot and killed 10 people at a Finnish college on Tuesday planned his rampage as far back as 2002, drawing inspiration from such events as the Columbine massacre in the United States, police said.