Anders Behring Breivik

Rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year jail sentence for killing 77 people, has complained to the Norwegian government over prison conditions akin to "aggravated torture", his lawyer said Thursday.

The family of a teenager killed by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik reacted angrily Friday after a probe into police's slow response to the July 2011 twin attacks was dropped.

President Barack Obama has vowed to battle gun violence, casting the fight as a nation's duty to protect its young, as a Connecticut town prepared to bury the first two victims of last week's rampage at an elementary school.

A leading Democratic senator launched a bid to ban assault weapons in the wake of the latest deadly US school shooting, announcing that she will put a bill before Congress on January 3.

Norway's public broadcaster NRK on Monday published for the first time video footage of right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik parking his van bomb that killed eight people in Oslo in July 2011.

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's complaints about prison life range from a lack of moisturiser in his cell to the temperature of his coffee, according to extracts from a 27-page letter published on Friday.

A 30-year-old Russian man suffering depression after a breakup went on a shooting spree Wednesday in his Moscow office, killing five and wounding another two after declaring his hatred for mankind, investigators said.

Legendary Russian theatre director Yury Lyubimov, who turns 95 Sunday, said Friday that his dream of producing a comic opera based on Moliere may finally come true after a go-ahead from Moscow.

A writer who argued in an essay that Norway deserved mass-killer Anders Behring Breivik has stepped down from a post with top French publishers Gallimard, the company said Thursday.

An Oslo court verdict last month handing gunman Anders Behring Breivik a 21-year prison sentence stands after he told his lawyers he would not lodge an appeal by Friday's deadline, they said.

A Norwegian publisher on Monday released a book of some of Anders Behring Breivik's email correspondence that show how he prepared for his July 2011 attacks that left 77 people dead.

The family of one of the victims of Anders Behring Breivik's 2011 attacks in Norway has accused police of breach of duty for its slow response to the mass shooting on Utoeya island, police's internal affairs said Wednesday.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg unveiled anti-terror measures Tuesday to improve flaws highlighted by Anders Behring Breivik's twin attacks, and made clear he would stay on despite criticism.

With Anders Behring Breivik sent to prison, Norway now turns its attention to the lessons to be learned from the massacre with the prime minister launching the process when he appears before parliament on Tuesday.

Norway's mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was found sane and sentenced to 21 years in prison on Friday, but in a final provocation said he was only sorry he had not killed more people.

Smiling as his verdict was read, giving a clenched-fist salute and apologising for not having killed more people, Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik remained defiant to the end.

Norway's mass-killer Anders Behring Breivik on Friday dismissed his sentence of 21 years by declaring the Oslo court "illegitimate", but also said he would not appeal against the jail term.

Norway's mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was found sane and sentenced to 21 years in prison on Friday for a bloodbath that left 77 people dead, traumatised the nation and shocked the world.

Norway's mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was found sane and sentenced to 21 years in prison on Friday for a bloodbath that left 77 people dead, traumatised the nation and shocked the world.

A smug smile crossed the face of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik as an Oslo court on Friday found him legally sane and sentenced him to 21 years in jail.