Austria admits security failings over Vienna gunman

Austria has acknowledged there had been security failings leading up to the deadly gun attacked in Vienna by a convicted Islamic State sympathiser. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said intelligence services had received a warning from neighbouring Slovakia that the assailant had tried to buy ammunition, but that "a failure of communication" had followed. The gunman, identified as 20-year-old dual Austrian-Macedonian national Kujtim Fejzulai, was killed by police after going on a shooting spree in Vienna on Monday evening that left four people dead. Police detained 14 people in the wake of the shooting, the first major attack in Austria for decades and the first blamed on a...