Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. FIVE-MINUTE STABBING FRENZY, THEN BLOOD EVERYWHERE  Like a horror movie come to life, a blank-faced student tears down a high school hallway swinging knives, knifing and injuring 21 classmates and a security guard before he is tackled by an assistant principal.   HIGH SCHOOL STABBINGS

2. PROSECUTOR CALLS PISTORIUS' APOLOGY TO REEVA'S FAMILY AN INSINCERE SPECTACLE  Faced with tough questions on his fourth day on the stand, the Olympian double amputee says he never got a chance to tell his girlfriend he loved her.   PISTORIUS TRIAL

3. PLANE SEARCH BRINGS MALAYSIA AND AUSTRALIA CLOSER  The two nations are using glowing terms to reassure the world that their troubled past will not affect the search for MH370.   MALAYSIA PLANE-FRIENDS IN NEED

4. NATO COMMANDER: US MAY SEND TROOPS TO EASTERN EUROPE  The alliance's chief in Europe tells the AP that Washington is looking at a package of military measures to reassure its members nearest Russia.   NATO-UKRAINE

5. AFGHANS BEGIN PROBE OF AP PHOTOGRAPHER'S DEATH  The authorities are not rushing to declare the motive of the policeman they say carried out the attack.   AFGHANISTAN SHOOTING INVESTIGATION

6. CAR SMASHES INTO FLORIDA DAY CARE  A child dies and 14 others are injured in the hit-and-run, chain-reaction crash. DAYCARE CRASH

7. WHERE PENTAGON CHIEF IS SEEKING CLOSER TIES  Hagel is wrapping up a 10-day trip to Asia in Mongolia where he signed an agreement expanding military cooperation.  HAGEL-ASIA

8. SOMETHING IN THE AIR  The air quality is so bad in China, an artist who traveled to Provence and brought home a jar of clean air was able to sell it for $860.   CHINA-JAR OF CLEAR AIR

9. WHY ROSA PARKS' ARCHIVES ARE UNAVAILABLE FOR VIEWING  The belongings of the woman who fought for freedom are bound up in a legal fight, and locked away in a New York warehouse.   ROSA PARKS ARCHIVE

10. THE LATEST KIWI TO MEET THE VISITING ROYALS  William and Kate visit a New Zealand aviation museum and get a tour of a collection of World War I aircraft from none other than the "Lord of the Rings" director, Peter Jackson.   NEW ZEALAND-ROYALS

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