Parents of American activist killed by Israeli bulldozer seven years ago take fight for justice to Haifa courtroom An Israeli court today is to begin hearing a civil suit brought against the Israeli government over the death of Rachel Corrie, the US activist who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago. The case, brought in a Haifa court by her family, challenges the official Israeli version of events, in which the military said its troops were not to blame

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio State University says an employee shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself.

On International Women’s Day we launch a manifesto for 21st-century feminism Today is the 100th International Women’s Day .

Sahil Saeed snatched from grandmother’s house in Punjab hours before he was due to return to Britain The family of the kidnapped five-year-old Sahil Saeed reacted furiously today to suggestions that relatives may have played a part in his kidnap in Pakistan. “That’s totally rubbish,” said the boy’s father, Raja Naqqash Saeed.

Grandson snatched on family visit to Pakistan, and taxi driver booked for airport under suspicion The mother of a five-year-old British boy kidnapped by an armed gang for a £100,000 ransom while visiting family in Pakistan has pleaded with his abductors, saying: “I just want my son back safe.” Sahil Saeed, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was snatched from his grandmother’s house in the Punjab as he and his father, Raja Naqqash Saeed, 28, were preparing to leave for their flight to Britain.

Sahil Saeed, 5, taken by robbers demanding £100,000 ransom from family Pakistani police have arrested a man described as a “prime suspect” in the kidnapping of a five-year-old British boy being held to ransom for £100,000. Sahil Saeed from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was taken from the Punjab region this morning after the family was held captive and robbed by five men armed with guns and hand grenades

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Sahil Saeed taken by robbers demanding £100,000 ransom, father says A five-year-old British boy has been kidnapped in Pakistan, the Foreign Office has said. The boy, named by the Foreign Office as Sahil Saeed, is understood to have been taken from a house in the Punjab region. His father, Raja Naqqash Saeed, said the kidnappers were demanding a £100,000 ransom for his safe return

Hilary Mantel has opened up a debate that goes right to the heart of what feminism is about From Alistair Darling’s warning of an economic downturn the like of which had not been seen for 60 years, to George Young’s assertion that Lord Ashcroft is a non-dom, it has never been more clear that the most awful political gaffes occur when some fool acts on a ghastly impulse to speak the truth. But the contagion is spreading. Hilary Mantel is no politician

Portuguese police files include reports of Madeleine McCann lookalikes being seen in Faro and New Zealand Portuguese police files containing sightings of young girls who look like Madeleine McCann should be handed over to the family’s investigators , a spokesman for her parents urged today. The documents and photographs, extracts of which emerged this week, include a report from a British man, named only as George, who saw a small, distressed blonde girl being dragged along a road to Faro airport in Portugal on the night Madeleine went missing. Other images, apparently withheld by the Portuguese police until now, are from CCTV cameras showing a young girl who bears a resemblance to Madeleine being led into a New Zealand supermarket in 2007.