Police were investigating an explosion at the University of Oklahoma late on Saturday that apparently killed one person outside a campus building. Campus police Sergeant Gary Robinson said authorities believe the blast was caused by an explosive device. Robinson did not know the identity or gender of the person whose body was found outside the university's botany-microbiology building. He also did not know if there were other injuries or if the building was occupied. Police cordoned off an area west of a packed Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, where the Oklahoma Sooners were playing a football game against Kansas State.
■ France
`White Night' draws crowds
Hundreds of thousands of revellers and curious onlookers invaded the streets of Paris on Saturday night for the annual "White Night" celebration of culture, with everything from video installations to an electric guitar orchestra on offer throughout the French capital. At the popular tourist site of Sacre Coeur, Parisians filled the pedestrian area around the Catholic basilica to listen to an orchestra of 300 electric guitars under the baton of New York composer Rhys Chatham. A Brazilian nightclub sprang up in the garden next to the Les Halles shopping precinct, with novice samba dancers of all ages shaking their stuff. Two thousand bicycles were available free to the public and night buses offered free rides.
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