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Grandmother charged with murder after allegedly rubbing methadone on child's gums
Sunday 04 August 2013
Baltimore police say she administered the powerful drug to both of her grandchildren
Mother knows best: Thief punished by his mum on Facebook
Friday 02 August 2013
The story represents yet another occasion when a parent has been able to punish their offspring via a social network
Twin city calls for gay rights: Manchester uses links with St Petersburg to put pressure on Russia over its new anti-gay laws
Friday 02 August 2013
Manchester City Council is using its “twinned” status with St Petersburg to pressure Russia into reconsidering its new anti-gay laws.
Ten charged in Coventry over teen sex abuse
Friday 02 August 2013
At least four of the defendants are members of the same family
Texas is running out of lethal drug used to execute death row prisoners
Friday 02 August 2013
The most active state for executions has confirmed supplies of pentobarbital will expire in September
Zimbabwe election results: Opposition leaders claim vote tainted by 'monumental rigging' as Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF claims victory
Thursday 01 August 2013
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvanirgai says his party considers the vote 'null and void' as election monitors warn that around one million people were denied their vote
Two jurors jailed for contempt of court over use of internet during trials
Tuesday 30 July 2013
One posted Facebook comments that he wanted to 'F*** up a paedophile' and the other Googled a case
Desmond Tutu: 'I would not worship a God who is homophobic'
Saturday 27 July 2013
Cape Town's former archbishop compares struggle for gay rights to his fight against apartheid
US tells Russia: 'We won't torture Edward Snowden if he is extradited home'
Friday 26 July 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder says the NSA whistleblower's claims of what he would face should he return to America are 'entirely without merit'
UN refugee commission claims 'formidable challenges' for Australia's deal to send 'boat people' to Papua New Guinea
Friday 26 July 2013
Kevin Rudd's draconian and controversial plan has already outraged human rights campaigners
Castro gets life plus 1,000 years as he cuts deal to avoid the chair
Friday 26 July 2013
Victims ‘relieved’ after Cleveland kidnapper pleads guilty to 937 charges against him
Foreign Office names British teenager feared drowned off French coast
Friday 26 July 2013
Kieran Knight, 16, was on holiday with his family in the Landes region near Bordeaux
Kazakh dictator renews friendship with David Cameron
Wednesday 24 July 2013
The authoritarian leader of Kazakhstan visited David Cameron in Downing Street while he was on a private trip to London with his family this week, it has emerged.
The Royston ring of steel: Data watchdog warns police that surveillance scheme in rural Hertfordshire town is 'unlawful'
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Monitoring of car number plates by CCTV cameras is ‘excessive’, rules data Information Commissioner's Office
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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