Recordings of emergency calls made during the Connecticut primary school massacre reveal terrified callers being urged to take cover amid gunshots in the background.

Adam Lanza may have hinted at his deadly plans online in the days before last year’s Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in the US.

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.

Barack Obama urged politicians to remember child shooting victims and not weaken in the face of a powerful gun lobby as he reached out to moderate members of his own party before a Senate vote on gun controls expected next month.

Children who escaped the Connecticut massacre are returning to classes today in a refurbished school named after their old one.

The body of the man who killed 26 people at a Connecticut primary school has been claimed for burial.

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.

Nine-year-old Nicholas Sabillon was remarkably composed as he recounted how the gunman who killed his schoolmates pounded on the locked door of the room where he was hiding.

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.

The powerful US gun lobby felt the first backlash from the Newtown massacre today when a leading private equity group decided to sell its stake in the company that made the killer’s assault rifle.

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

At the bar, everybody knew her name.

California resident Ryan Kraft was given a stark warning by the Lanza family when he used to babysit Adam Lanza.

The Connecticut town shattered by the school massacre held its first two funerals today.

The shattered community of Newtown was holding its first two funerals today, including one for the youngest victim.

President Barack Obama has signalled his intention to bring in gun control laws in the wake of the Newtown massacre, saying he will use “whatever power” he has to prevent a repeat.

A mournful Barack Obama has told Newtown the United States is failing to keep its children safe, pledging that change must come after an elementary school massacre left 20 children dead.

The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage shot his mother four times in the head before going to the school and gunning down 26, authorities said yesterday as details emerged suggesting that Adam Lanza had planned an even more gruesome massacre.

A worker who turned on the intercom, alerting others something was wrong.

WHEN Barack Obama, hours after the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, talked of the need for “meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this”, half the world nodded in agreement.

The father of the gunman in the Connecticut school rampage says his family is struggling to make sense of what happened.

At Newtown High School, Adam Lanza had trouble relating to fellow students and teachers, according to various witnesses, but that was only part of his problem.

Evidence has been found that could help explain the motives of the lone gunman behind one of the worst mass school shootings in American history, police said today.

The massacre of 26 children and adults at an elementary school in the US state of Connecticut elicited horror and soul-searching around the world even as it raised questions about why the gunman, a 20-year-old described as brilliant but remote, would have been driven to such a crime and how he chose his victims, some as young as five.

Some parents who lost children in the Sandy Hook shooting may never recover from the pain of their death, an expert in post-traumatic stress said today.

Police in Connecticut have said the gunman who killed 20 children at a school in America was "remote" and may have suffered from a personality disorder.

Hundreds of people have attended a church vigil in Connecticut to remember the victims of the school shooting that left 27 people dead.

The head of the Connecticut primary school devastated by a shooting rampage was among the victims, an official said today.

A gunman killed 26 people, including 20 young children, at a US school where his mother worked today in one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.

Germany striker Miroslav Klose has dismissed reports about a potential rift between him and attacking partner Lukas Podolski following the future Bayern Munich star’s dip in form.

ECUADOR coach Luis Suarez hailed yesterday’s qualification to the second phase of the World Cup as a “historic day”.

A woman who reported her brother missing in the World Trade Center attack last year is under investigation after authorities discovered that he did not exist, the FBI has said.