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Canada: Student shot at school

TORONTO (AP) — A teenage student was shot and critically injured during a fight outside a Toronto high school Tuesday, police said.

Police locked down the Bendale Business and Technical Institute and several other schools nearby. They said they had a description of the gunman, who fled along with several witnesses.

Police chief Bill Blair said the teenager was shot in the abdomen during a fight involving a number of young men just outside the school building. Toronto once prided itself as one of the safest cities in North America but it has seen a surge in gun violence in recent years.

Britain: Body exhumed

LONDON (AP) — Scientists have exhumed the body of a British diplomat who died of flu during the World War I-era pandemic that killed tens of millions around the world, hoping to find clues that might help fight a future global influenza outbreak.

The BBC said Tuesday that it had filmed virologist John Oxford exhuming Sir Mark Sykes, who died in 1919. Oxford's team took tissue samples before reburying the body in its grave in East Yorkshire in northeast England last week. The BBC will broadcast the program Wednesday. Understanding more about the 1918-19 pandemic, known as the Spanish flu, might help scientists design better treatments for the H5N1 strain of avian flu.

China: Milk linked to 3 deaths

BEIJING — China's health minister says a third death of a baby has been reported in the country's spreading scandal over tainted milk formula, and more than 6,200 infants have become sick.

Chen Zhu told a news conference Wednesday of the 6,244 babies that were sickened after being fed tainted milk powder, 158 were suffering from acute kidney failure.

He says that the third baby died in eastern Zhejiang province. The two earlier deaths had been reported in Gansu province.

Nigeria: Oil plant attacked

LAGOS (AP) — Fighters from Nigeria's main militant group attacked an oil installation, the latest clash in a surge of violence in country's southern petroleum-producing region, the group said Wednesday.

A senior leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta told The Associated Press that the group's fighters hit a pipeline-interchange station run by the local unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC.