CANADA: Newly appointed professor killed in Afghanistan

The papers appointing Jackie Kirk as an adjunct professor at McGill University were waiting to be signed when school officials learned the research fellow had been killed in an ambush in Afghanistan, reports the National Post. Jamshid Beheshti, an interim dean with the faculty of education, said he expects the school will posthumously award Kirk the professorship that would have allowed her to lecture and teach in the fall.

"It is a great loss, of course. It's a tragedy. We all feel very, very sorry about this," Beheshti said.Kirk had been working with the aid organisation International Rescue Committee since 2004, and was one of three aid workers fatally wounded by armed gunmen who poured dozens of bullets into two clearly marked vehicles yesterday. The workers were travelling on a 100-kilometre stretch of road between Gardiz and Kabul at 10:30 am local time.
Full report on the National Post site