Innovative students have developed a road safety board game that could help save lives.

The family of a young man who went on a deadly shooting rampage in two Colorado religious centres before killing himself said they were "groping for answers" and praying for the victims' families.

The gunman believed to have killed four people at a Colorado megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the centre a few years ago and was sending it hate mail, police said.

Three vigilantes were facing life sentences today for beating to death a suspected paedophile at a bus stop.