EDMONTON, Alberta — A man with a lengthy criminal record killed six adults and two young children before taking his own life in Edmonton in what the police chief on Tuesday called the western Canadian city's worst mass murder.

Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht told a news conference Tuesday there was no suggestion of gang involvement and said the motive for the “senseless mass murder” appears to have been “planned and deliberate” domestic violence.

“It's terrible for the city,” Knecht said. “The scene ... has been described as chaotic, horrific. Particularly when there's children involved, it has a tremendous impact on our folks.”

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia — Bad weather hindered efforts to recover victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 on Wednesday and sent wreckage drifting far from the crash site, as grieving relatives prayed for strength to endure their losses.“Help us, God, to move forward, even though we are surrounded by darkness,” the Rev. Philip Mantofa, whose church lost about 40 members in the disaster, told families.The massive hunt for 162 people who vanished Sunday aboard the Airbus A320 traveling from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore, was severely limited due to heavy rain, wind and thick clouds. Seven bodies, including a flight attendant in her red AirAsia uniform, have been recovered, said Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo.

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean activist said Wednesday that he will launch balloons carrying DVDs of Sony's “The Interview” toward North Korea to try to break down a personality cult built around dictator Kim Jong Un.The comedy depicting an assassination attempt on Kim is at the center of tension between North Korea and the U.S.Activist Park Sang-hak said he will start dropping 100,000 DVDs and USBs with the movie by balloon in North Korea as early as late January.