On a home-improvement quest, Faith Ryan checks out stylish modern buys — online and off.

Police in the US have released thousands of pages of documents from the investigation into last year’s school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which could shed new light on the world of the 20-year-old gunman.

US President Barack Obama pledged to put his “full weight” behind a legislative package next year aimed at tackling gun violence, recalling the school gun rampage that killed 20 young pupils as the worst day of his presidency.

Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown for the first time since a gunman’s rampage killed 26 people in an elementary school, altering the gun control debate in Washington and forcing a retailer to pull guns from shelves.