As the tragedy of the Virginia Tech shootings have come upon us, the world has reacted in sorrow, and has showed just how big an impact this has had in our nation.

The Buffalo News reflects on how “TV news functions as therapy in Virginia Tech tragedy”

The Associated Press, relates as to why this tragedy has had an impact all over the world. The fact is that seven of the 33 people who died in the tragedy were immigrants and foreign citizens.

Guardian Unlimited looks at some of the victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy.

NPR also remembers the victims of the shootings, and has some basic information on each of those who died, such as Ryan Clark,

Clark, 22, was a senior with a triple major in biology, English and psychology. The native of Columbia County, Ga., was known by the nickname “Stack.” Clark was one of the first two victims killed at the Virginia Tech campus on Monday. He was a student resident adviser at the West Ambler Johnston dormitory, where he was gunned down. Clark was a just a month away from graduation. He was active in the school’s “Marching Virginians” band. He had hoped to pursue a doctorate in psychology.

NewsMax.com observes how the Virginia Tech Students have turned to God in helping with their healing.

BLACKSBURG, Va. — By all accounts, the prayers started even before the gunshots stopped at Virginia Tech university, and the pleas to God from grief-stricken survivors of the massacre have continued ever since.

ABC Radio Australia reports how residents of Seoul have held a march and a candlelit vigil to mourn the loss of more than 30 students and teachers, killed at an American university by a South Korean gunman.

PBS reports the “Impact of Virginia Tech Shootings Felt Worldwide”. Including the reactions of Tony Blair, George Bush, various religious leaders, the Governor of Virginia, and the closing poem of english professor Nikki Giovanni.

JIM LEHRER: The effects of the shootings were felt worldwide. Several of the victims came from international backgrounds. Today in London, British Prime Minister Blair offered condolences.

TONY BLAIR, Prime Minister of Britain: I would like to express on behalf of Britain and the British people our profound sadness at what has happened and to send the American people and, most especially of course, the families of the victims our sympathy and our prayers.