Police released thousands of pages from their investigation into last year’s massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, providing the most detailed and disturbing picture yet of the rampage.

Five years after the credit crisis began, Western economies are confronting the prospect of a lost decade of growth, and international diplomats are warning the damage could get even worse if Europe allows its sovereign debt crisis to fester much longer.

AN AMERICAN citizen released after six months’ detention in North Korea has arrived in Seoul after he left the communist state with a US delegation, South Korean news media said.

A US envoy said the human rights situation in North Korea must improve before the country could have normal relations with the US.