Gunshots have been reported on the campus of Virginia Tech where 32 people died in a massacre four years ago.

More than four years after the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, the horrors of that day on the Virginia Tech campus are about to be relived in court.

Virginia Tech University must pay the maximum $55,000 (€39,000) fine for breaking the law by waiting too long to notify students during the 2007 shooting rampage, but will not lose government aid, the US Department of Education said.

The US government has said Virginia Tech university broke the law by waiting two hours to tell the campus that a gunman was loose at the outset of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

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.

Virginia Tech officials might have saved lives if they had given out information on the first two shootings on campus sooner, an investigating panel concluded.

The Virginia Tech student who killed 32 people and himself on campus in April had been treated in high school for a mental disorder that left him unable to speak in public, according to newspaper reports.

A 19-year-old woman’s 911 emergency call from the scene of the Virginia Tech shootings was published today.

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.

Authorities at Virginia Tech have sent out a questionnaire asking students for any information they may have about gunman Seung-Hui Cho and his first victim.

The family of Seung-Hui Cho might be able to help authorities understand the troubled 23-year-old who killed 32 people at a university last week, Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine said.

An 18-year-old student at an Illinois high school faces disorderly conduct charges today for writing an essay that authorities described as violent and disturbing.

Students and staff of the German high school where a teenager killed himself and 16 others in 2002 today paid tribute to the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting as they marked the fifth anniversary of their own tragedy.

A timeline of the Virginia Tech shootings in America has emerged as police provided new details about what happened on that fateful morning 10 days ago.

The US Ambassador to South Korea today urged South Koreans to set aside their culture of collective guilt and not assume responsibility over the murder of 32 students and faculty members at Virginia Tech University.

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 families of Columbine school shooting victims pledged to appeal against a judge’s decision to seal information about the two killers that they say might have helped prevent the Virginia Tech massacre.

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”.

As experts analysed the disturbing materials left behind by the Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung Hui today, it became increasingly clear that Cho was almost a classic case of a school shooter.

As experts pored over Cho Seung Hui's twisted writings and his videotaped rant today, parents and officials urged people to instead focus on the victims of the deadliest rampage by a lone gunman in modern US history.

Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-hui was diagnosed with autism after the family emigrated to the US, a relative in South Korea said.

While the parents of the Virginia Tech gunman have kept silent and out of public view, his uncle met an official from a Korean-American association and said he "assumes" the parents are doing fine.

The disturbing manifest and videos of Cho Seung-Hui delivering a speech about rich "brats" and their "hedonistic needs" had some marginal value to police, but did not add much that investigators did not already know, officials said today.

American news network NBC today aired another round of videos Cho Seung-Hui posted to them in the middle of the killings of 32 people at Virginia Tech.

Pop mogul Simon Cowell has today denied being disrespectful to the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre.

The gunman in the US university massacre had troubled his parents as a child because he would not speak, news reports in South Korea said today.

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 involved in the deadliest shooting in modern US history had previously been accused of stalking two female students and had been taken to a mental health facility in 2005, but no charges were filed, police said today.

Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in US history got another scare this morning as police in commando gear with weapons drawn swarmed the building which houses the president’s office.

South Korean students heading to the US expressed concern today over a possible backlash after a shooting rampage at an American university committed by one of their fellow nationals, but said they would not change their study plans.

China today said it was regrettable that some US media reports were quick to blame a Chinese student for the Virginia Tech massacre.

An Indonesian mother bemoaned the availability of guns in the United States after learning her son was among those killed in a school massacre, while South Koreans expressed shame and shock that one of their own was the gunman.

Cho Seung-Hui walked into a Virginia gun shop five weeks ago, put down a credit card and walked out with a Glock 19 handgun and a box of ammunition. He paid $572 (€421).

Horrible, real-world happenings are unfolding almost simultaneously in the virtual world, as Virginia Tech students and people from all over the world gather online to grieve and vent.

President Roh Moo-hyun held a special meeting with aides today to discuss the US campus shooting, as the public expressed shame over a South Korean citizen being identified as the gunman.

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.

Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacuations at universities and schools in eight US states the day after a Virginia Tech student’s shooting rampage killed 32 people.

The US President ordered flags flown at half mast today in honour of those killed in America’s deadliest shooting spree.

South Korea’s foreign ministry expressed its condolences today to victims after it emerged that the suspect in the shooting spree at Virginia Tech university in the United States was South Korean.

A South Korean national was behind the massacre of at least 30 people locked inside a Virginia Tech campus building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history, the university said today.

Virginia Tech’s president said today that a university student was the gunman in at least the second of the two campus attacks that claimed 33 lives yesterday.