Jim Carrey has apologised for insulting gun supporters.

More than 100 family and friends gathered at a church to remember the woman whose son massacred 20 children and six teachers in a Connecticut elementary school last year.

It was an image shared thousands of times on social media soon after the Boston Marathon explosions – that of a blonde, bespectacled girl running along a street and wearing a red T-shirt, runner’s gear and a bib.

The US Senate blocked bipartisan legislation yesterday aimed at tightening restrictions on the sale of firearms.

Arnold Schwarzenegger today called for “a very serious debate” to help minimise US gun tragedies.

As Americans paused for the one-week anniversary of the Connecticut school massacre, new details emerged about gunman, Adam Lanza, who could take apart and reassemble a computer in a matter of minutes, but rarely spoke to anyone.

ESPN has to be careful how it goes at the best of times.

A town has begun to bury its dead, laying to rest the first of the 20 children killed in the Connecticut school massacre.