Families of Virginia Tech shooting victims reacted with fury after it emerged that the gunman's missing mental health records were found at the home of a former campus clinic chief more than two years after the incident.

Rapper Nas has slammed US talk show titan Bill O'Reilly as a "racist" for criticising his appearance at a Virginia Tech memorial concert as insulting to the victims of the April massacre.

The piano former Beatle John Lennon used for his song Imagine will be taken to a house near the scene of an American university massacre as part of a tour to highlight peace and non-violence.

TEACHERS at a US school have been criticised for staging a fake gunman attack during a class trip.

Teachers at a US school have been criticised for staging a fake gunman attack during a class trip.

Thousands of Virginia Tech graduates struggled to balance joy with grief at ceremonies held less than a month after a student gunman’s rampage devastated the university campus.

Victims of the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech college in the United States were “graduating” alongside their classmates tonight.

About five thousand Virginia Tech students are set to graduate in the US today, less than a month after gunman Seung-Hui Cho shot 32 students and faculty members before turning the gun on himself.

STUDENTS are back in class as Blacksburg, Virginia struggles to come to terms with the horrific events of April 16.

Virginia Tech students made a sombre return to their US campus today, pausing for a moment of silence to remember the 32 classmates murdered a week ago.

Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui went on eBay less than a month before the massacre to buy ammunition clips for one of the two handguns he used in the rampage.

The family of university campus killer Cho Seung-Hui apologised for the tragedy, saying they “never could have envisioned that he was capable of so much violence”.

The images of the gunman who was responsible for the massacre at Virginia Tech silenced crowds near campus as they played on television screens.

The Virginia Tech gunman went to the post office and sent television network NBC a package midway through his murderous rampage.

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.

REPRESENTING his country’s anguish, US President George W Bush last night said that he prays for comfort for those victimised by the “dark turn” of the day at Virginia Tech that turned into the nation’s deadliest shooting spree.

IT is a college where guns are treasured as much as human life, according to a Co Monaghan professor working for the tragic Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

A GUNMAN opened fire in a dorm and classroom at a US university yesterday, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in US history.

President Bush was described today as "shocked and saddened" by the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, the deadliest incident of campus violence ever seen in the US.

LOW levels of a widely used insecticide may cause changes in the brain that lead to symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.