A witness says the gunman in a school shooting in the south-eastern New Mexico city of Roswell was a student.

Extreme athlete and skydiver Felix Baumgartner has cancelled his planned death-defying 23-mile free fall into the New Mexico desert because of high winds.

Plans for skydiver Felix Baumgartner to make a record 23-mile freefall jump have been put on hold due to adverse winds, but his team is hopeful he will be able to go ahead.