A multimillion-euro legal battle is reportedly under way between the Rolling Stones and insurance underwriters over costs incurred after the cancellation of concerts following the death of Sir Mick Jagger’s girlfriend L’Wren Scott.

A woman accused of killing seven babies she gave birth to over a decade has been arrested after police discovered the tiny bodies stuffed in cardboard boxes in the garage of her former home.

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.