World IN BRIEF : BRITAIN : Headmaster Knifed to Death Outside School

The principal of a London school died after being stabbed in the chest trying to save one of his students from a youth gang. Philip Lawrence, 48 and a father of four, raced out of his school in Maida Vale in west London when he saw bandanna-wearing youths attack the student as he left school Friday. Lawrence was stabbed once in the chest. He was taken to a hospital after open-heart surgery at the scene but died eight hours later. Teachers have complained that attacks on teachers are on the rise. The boy attacked by the gang was discharged from the hospital after being treated for a head wound. Police are searching for Lawrence’s assailants, who scattered into nearby streets.