The psychiatrist who treated James Holmes before he opened fire in a Colorado cinema, killing 12 people and wounded 58 others, has said she would have called police and had him detained if she had known his plans.

Colorado’s long-awaited cinema massacre trial began yesterday, with jurors asked to decide whether gunman James Holmes was insane when he killed a dozen filmgoers in 2012, or a calculating mass murderer who deserves execution.

East Antarctica has set a global record for soul-crushing cold, according to newly analysed data.

Multiple births are increasingly the result of drugs given to women to make them produce eggs – not from using multiple embryos from IVF, or lab-dish fertilisation, new research shows.

SINCE the first test-tube baby was born more than three decades ago, in vitro fertilisation (IVF) has evolved into a highly sophisticated lab procedure. Now, scientists are going back to basics and testing a simpler and cheaper method.

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.

Lawyers for the Colorado cinema massacre suspect have said for the first time that they are considering entering a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity on behalf of their client.

There was a good reason for Shane O’Neill’s decision to politely decline an invitation in January to try his luck with the Republic of Ireland U21 side.

Prosecutors were expected to finish presenting their case to a Colorado judge last night in the preliminary hearing of a former graduate student who is charged with shooting 12 people to death and wounding 58 others in a movie theatre last summer.

Prosecutors have outlined their case against the gunman who shot dead 12 people at a US premiere of the latest Batman film.

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.

Lawyers for the Colorado cinema shooting suspect plan to subpoena a Fox News journalist who was the first to report that James Holmes sent his psychiatrist a notebook full of violent descriptions.

The suspect in the US cinema rampage which killed 12 people in one of the worst mass shootings in the country’s history smiled and glanced around a courtroom today, a marked difference from his dazed and silent previous appearances.

The suspect in last month’s Colorado cinema shooting that left 12 dead was expected to be in court again today as prosecutors seek to show that he is sane.

The judge in the deadly US cinema shooting case has refused to lift a gagging order that prevents the University of Colorado from releasing information about former graduate student and suspect James Holmes.

Lawyers for the suspect in the Colorado cinema shootings said today that their client is mentally ill and they need more time to assess the nature of his illness.

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.

James Holmes (aged 24) was today charged with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder after an attack at a Colorado cinema.

Prosecutors in the US are expected to file formal charges against the student accused of killing 12 people and injuring 58 others in a cinema gun rampage.

The former graduate student accused of carrying out the Colorado cinema shooting that killed 12 was being treated by a psychiatrist at the university where he studied, court papers revealed today.

A university has said it received a suspicious package, but would not confirm the contents or whether the sender was a former student accused of killing 12 people in the Colorado cinema shooting.

The man accused of the shooting spree at a Colorado screening of the new Batman film posted a notebook detailing his plans to a psychiatrist just days before the attack, FoxNews.com yesterday reported as the first funeral was held for one of the 12 people killed.

It has been reported that the suspect in the Denver cinema shooting sent a notebook outlining his plans to a psychiatrist, before going on the rampage, killing 12 people.

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.

A hungry black bear that wandered on to the University of Colorado campus and caused a stir before falling from a tree has been returned to the wild.

A black bear who wandered on to a university campus in Colorado fell safely from a tree after being tranquillised and was later relocated to the nearby Rocky Mountains.

DISASTER-MOVIE scenarios resulting from a collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) have been greatly exaggerated, say climate scientists.

FREE patient advice and services provided by pharmacists reduced GP visits by almost four million and unnecessary attendances at accident and emergency departments by more than 500,000 in 2007, a report claims.

ENDANGERED species may be 100 times more at risk of extinction than most experts believe, it was claimed yesterday.

A second popular vitamin supplement has been found to heighten the likelihood of developing lung cancer, it was disclosed today.

THOUSANDS of Irish people could be spared surgery for bowel disease because of a significant breakthrough by a team of scientists from University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin.

Experts at one of the country’s leading scientific research centres believe they have discovered a cure for the chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), it was revealed today.

WHEN the topic turns to school violence, Tom Mauser usually lectures about guns.

New photographs from space suggest that water occasionally flows on the frigid surface of Mars, raising the possibility that the Red Planet is hospitable to life, scientists reported tonight.

A provocative new study of photographs taken from orbit suggests that liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars as recently as several years ago, raising the possibility that the Red Planet could harbour an environment favourable to life.

LIMERICK man Liam Reale added his name to the growing list of qualifiers for the European championships when he finished second in the elite men’s 1,500m race at last weekend’s Boston High Performance meeting.

SMOKE from cannabis is less likely to cause cancer than tobacco smoke, according to new research.

AMERICANS John L Hall and Roy J Glauber and German Theodor W Haensch won the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for work that could lead to better long-distance communication and more precise navigation worldwide and in space.

The international Cassini spacecraft has sent ultra-violet images of Saturn’s rings that show there is more ice towards the outer part of the planet’s halos.