Bomb squad police were detonating a huge explosives haul today at the home of a man accused of shooting dead eight people in Virginia's worst mass killing incident since 2007.

A gunman wanted for murdering eight people in a house then firing at a police helicopter surrendered today after a huge manhunt.

A massive manhunt involving more than 100 police and helicopters with thermal imaging was under way today for a gunman who killed eight people in Virginia.

Sustainability as a tourist attraction requires that a building must be ancient and hold dead people (the pyramids), bendy (the Tower of Pisa) or linked with imprisonment, torture and execution (the Tower of London).