Police found eight bodies in a house outside Chicago and said they feared mass murder involving 32 or more victims.
"We are going to take the house apart and we can't be sure how many murder victims we are going to find," one police official said.
"There could be as many as 32 bodies, may be even more." Police have detained a 37-year-old man with a record of sex crimes.
Six die in Gandhi riots
Six people were killed as massive protests continued across India against the jailing of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Two were killed and seven injured when police opened fire on about 5,000 pro-Gandhi demonstrators trying to set fire to a police station in the western city of Arvi.
Two more were killed and three seriously injured when police fired on a violent crowd in Bagalkot, Karnataka state, where Mrs Gandhi made her return to Parliament last month.
South Korean amnesty is declared
South Korean President Chung-hee decreed the most sweeping amnesty in history, including the release from prison of his biggest political opponent and freedom or reduced sentences for thousands of other people now in jail. The amnesty also rehabilitates an estimated two million people who had been fined or received lesser penalties in the courts.
A Government announcement said Kim Dae-jung, narrowly defeated by Park in the 1971 presidential election would be freed from prison.
Schoolbus horror: It was overloaded say officials
The children’s shrill screams of "we won't make it across, we won't make it across," cut into the air before a sickening crash drowned their voices as a train hit their overloaded school- bus at a level crossing outside the remote village of Munoz near Salananca in Western Spain.
The bus carrying 97 people on board was taking the children to their last school day before the Christmas holidays was sliced into two. Twenty-eight children and a 57-year-old man who boarded the bus were killed.
