The US vice president Joe Biden has begun talks at the White House with the country’s top gun lobby, which has fiercely opposed any suggestion of new gun controls.

A PAIR of disaffected teenagers inspired by the Columbine school massacre planned a copycat killing spree in Britain, a court heard yesterday.

Five teenage boys accused of plotting a shooting rampage at their Kansas high school on the anniversary of the Columbine school massacre were arrested after a message warning of a gun attack appeared on a website.

The Cannes Film Festival is back in the hands of comfy old friends with a line-up that includes such familiar filmmakers as Woody Allen, David Cronenberg, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier and Atom Egoyan.