Shock rocker Marilyn Manson has branded the vigils held in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre "manufactured".

Plans are being made for the Queen to visit with some survivors of last week’s shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, according to reports from the US tonight.

The families of Columbine school shooting victims pledged to appeal against a judge’s decision to seal information about the two killers that they say might have helped prevent the Virginia Tech massacre.

POP mogul Simon Cowell yesterday denied being disrespectful to the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre.

The disturbing manifest and videos of Cho Seung-Hui delivering a speech about rich "brats" and their "hedonistic needs" had some marginal value to police, but did not add much that investigators did not already know, officials said today.

Pop mogul Simon Cowell has today denied being disrespectful to the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre.

China today said it was regrettable that some US media reports were quick to blame a Chinese student for the Virginia Tech massacre.

The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner known as “the question mark kid”, who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing.

PHOTOS, videos, prayers and rumours spread across the internet within minutes of the Virginia Tech massacre as people from around the world used websites to mourn the victims and get the latest information about the shootings.

The US President ordered flags flown at half mast today in honour of those killed in America’s deadliest shooting spree.

The gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people, including himself, dead was identified today as an English major whose creative writing was so disturbing that he was referred to the school’s counselling service.