Emergency responders say one person is dead after a stabbing attack on the University of Texas campus.

She's regretting it now.

Three University of Texas professors have filed an action in federal court in a bid to halt a state law that lets people with concealed handgun licences bring pistols into classrooms, saying the measure would have a chilling effect on academic freedom.

To improve airline safety, maybe we need to remove the pilots.

Regular cannabis use shrinks the brain but increases the complexity of its wiring, a study has found.

“In there you’re gonna find the answer - of whether you win or whether you lose.”

A woman whose relatives were killed in a 1966 sniper rampage at the University of Texas that left 16 people dead says she is horrified that the high-powered rifle used by the gunman is being sold in an online auction.

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Alex Chacón rides around the world on a motorbike and takes pictures of himself having a great time. What a complete b******.

Computer files to create a plastic handgun almost entirely from parts made with a 3D printer have gone online, alarming gun-control advocates after it was successfully test-fired by its inventor.

Lance Armstrong has been stopped from competing at a masters swimming event in Texas in what would have been the banned cyclist’s first return to competitive sport.

Lance Armstrong is planning to make a return to competitive sport as a swimmer this weekend.

Computer giant Dell is to be bought back by its founder in a $24.4bn deal that sees it leave the stock market after 25 years.

Dell is in buyout talks with private equity firms, according to sources.

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.

CNN published, and then retracted, a news story which claimed that women’s votes were governed by their menstrual cycles, triggering criticism and lampooning.

LOSING ground to Republican Mitt Romney on a host of issues, US President Barack Obama faces a serious challenge to put his re-election bid back on track when the two men face off tonight.

A man believed to be the leader of the Gulf drug cartel, which controls some of the most valuable and violently contested smuggling routes along the US border, was arrested by Mexican marines and paraded before the public.

Americans like their team sports to be reduced to duels, the battle of stars who are more often than not defined by recent form.

The Mexican drug cartels operating with alarming bloodlust around the hinterlands of El Paso, Texas have promised there’ll be a one-day truce on Saturday, June 16.

MITT Romney, the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, is promising Americans deep spending cuts, smaller government, trade penalties on China, a new Federal Reserve chairman and sweeping deregulation.

Dopamine controls the brain’s response to pleasure and addiction may be the result of a genetic fault in its make-up, says Sharon Ní Chonchúir

A TRANSATLANTIC romance blossomed when two thalidomide survivors began to share their life experiences over the internet.

OWEN WILSON looks very skinny, almost frail when he walks through the corridor of Renaissance hotel in Hollywood, surrounded by his retinue of publicists and handlers.

Shamens and horses helped improve life for Rupert Isaacson’s autistic son. Tommy Barker reports

WITH a name that makes him sound like a magician or a stand-up comic, Jhonattan Vegas made sure he will never be forgotten on the PGA Tour after winning the Bob Hope Classic in La Quinta, California on Sunday night.

POOR nutrition early in pregnancy can cause a lifetime of damage to an unborn baby’s brain, research suggests.

COUPLES who avoid sex before marriage end up having happier, more stable relationships — and a better time in bed, according to psychologists.

A student wearing a dark suit and a ski mask and armed with an assault rifle began shooting at the University of Texas campus this morning before fleeing into a library and shooting himself dead.

THERE is no “safe” dose of cocaine and anyone taking even small amounts of the drug is dicing with death.

A bowl of breakfast cereal is better at aiding recovery after exercise than expensive sports drinks, it was claimed today.

A palaeontologist whose Texas beachfront home was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size tooth in the debris.

US physicist John Archibald Wheeler, who had a key role in the development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died at 96.

She plays a journalist in new film Leatherheads, but Renee Zellweger almost became a reporter in real life too.

Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton clashed over campaign speeches, Cuba, and healthcare in a mostly civil debate two weeks ahead of the critical Texas primary election.

THE killings at Virginia Tech university will stir fresh US debate over gun control and what drives people to go on shooting rampages through schools and colleges.

A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at a US university today, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in US history.

A gunman opened fire at a hall of residence and a classroom at a US university today, killing at least 21 people in the deadliest campus shooting in the country's history.