Prosecutors have rejected the plea offer of the man accused of gunning down 12 people in a Colorado movie theatre last July, saying his defence team’s offer of a guilty plea in exchange for avoiding the death penalty was not legitimate.

There is nothing like a dame and the seductress at the centre of Ruben Fleischer’s stylish crime thriller certainly sends temperatures soaring.

James Holmes’s two-door hatchback was full of items indicating he might have planned to flee after allegedly shooting-up an Aurora, Colorado cinema last July.

Former US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords met families of victims of the Connecticut school massacre that left 26 people dead, nearly two years after she was critically wounded in a mass shooting.

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are the latest in the United States’ long history of massacres at schools and colleges.

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are just the latest in the US’s long history of massacres at schools and colleges.

A hearing to decide if accused Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes should stand trial might not be held until January.

Three people, including a police officer and the suspected gunman, are dead following a shooting near the Texas A&M campus in College Station yesterday, police and university officials say.

The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in southern Wisconsin was a former US serviceman with links to racist groups.

A university psychiatrist was so alarmed by cinema massacre suspect James Holmes’ behaviour that she tried to bring him to the attention of the school’s threat assessment team, reports said.

Christian Bale has travelled to Aurora, Colorado to meet with those involved in the movie theatre shootings.

Residents of a Denver suburb mourned their dead yesterday from a shooting rampage by a “demonic” gunman who killed 12 people and wounded 58 after opening fire at a cinema showing the new Batman movie.

US police were last night searching the apartment and university of the suspect in the Batman movie massacre amid fears they have been rigged with “flammable and explosive” booby-traps.

Art imitates life, but in Colorado early yesterday morning they had a gruesome example of life imitating art.

The Queen tonight sent her “heartfelt sympathy” to President Barack Obama and the US people after a horrific shooting spree at a cinema left 12 people dead.

President Barack Obama says he is "shocked and saddened" by the deadly mass shooting at a Colorado cinema.

Up to 14 people are feared dead after a shooting at a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie near Denver, Colorado, according to local police.

Terror suspect Najibullah Zazi was today charged with conspiring to detonate bombs in the United States.

Seven months after disappearing from her owner’s garden in the western US state of Colorado, a terrier named Daisy turned up in Knoxville, Tennessee - 1,300 miles away.

MGM Mirage has decided against increasing its £308m (€454m) bid for Wembley PLC in the face of a higher rival offer.