BBC News with Marion Marshall

The first funerals have taken place in the small Connecticut community of New Town. The scene was one of the worst mass killings in recent US history. Those laid to rest were two six year old boys, Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto. They were among the 20 children and six adults killed by a lone gunman at their school on Friday. Laura Trevelyan is in New Town.

I went past the funeral home where relatives were gathering ahead of one of the funerals that it was just the scene of indescribable sorrow and anguish, parents burying a child in the period just before Christmas and a period just after Hannukah the Jewish festival, so really a very poignant, a heartbreaking moment for this town which is known so much anguish since Friday.

Earlier Connecticut state police said they'd began to analyze the evidence and would continue to interview the large number of witnesses.

Egypt's newly appointed public prosecutor Talaat Ibrahim Abdallah has resigned after serving for only a month. He was appointed by President Mohammed Mursi following Mr Mursi's decision to assume sweeping presidential powers. Mr Abdallah's resignation follows protests from members of the judiciary who said President Mursi's decision to sack the former public prosecutor was an assault on the independence of the judiciary.

An official inquiry in Bangladesh says sabotage caused a fire which killed more than 100 workers at a garment factory last month. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports from Dahka.