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• U.k. Citizen eligible to receive more divorce money than awarded by Nigerian court
  A British citizen who was unhappy with a divorce settlement awarded to her by a Nigerian court is eligible to receive a much larger lump sum payment, Britain's highest court ruled yesterday. Meredith Thompson, solicitor at Mills and Reeve, said the ruling could open the floodgates to similar claims, fuellin
  
  
• Two British women raped by father win official apology from local authorities
  Two British women who were raped and abused by their father for more than 25 years, becoming pregnant 18 times, won an apology yesterday from local authorities for failing to prevent the serial incest. In a case compared with that of Austria's notorious Josef Fritzl, the 56-year-old man, who cannot be named
  
  
• U.S. Health official makes plea to insurers
  Barack Obama's top health official made a tough moral case to insurance giants yesterday: put people and patriotism before profits and drop opposition to the President's overhaul plans. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, pictured, braved an industry conference two days after Mr. Obama is
  
  
• Israeli supermarket chain using Hamas assassination as marketing tool
  An Israeli supermarket chain is using the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai by an alleged hit squad from the Mossad intelligence agency as the basis of a marketing campaign. The Almost Free Warehouse chain shot the television advertisment yesterday under the slogan: "Eliminate the prices." A man d
  
  
• Mere misery now reason for mercy killing
  Healthy, elderly who are simply "tired of living" could be allowed to end their lives with a lethal injection under new euthanasia laws being debated in the Dutch parliament.
  
  
• Mass insanity in 1951 France linked to CIA drug tests
  In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were committed to asylums and hundreds afflicted.
  
  
• Hadron collider off for a year of repairs
  The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, is to close for a year to repair mistakes made in construction. It is the latest in a series of setbacks to hit the atom smasher which scientists hope will pinpoint the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle. Scientists have discovered that copper connect
  
  
• Woman arrested after mechanic finds nose stuck under car's carriage
  Polish police have arrested a 29-year-old woman they suspect is responsible for a hit-and-run fatality after a mechanic found part of a human body part jammed in the under carriage of her car, Warsaw police said yesterday. "Many traces, including human tissue, were found in the under carriage of the BMW," a
  
  
• Afghan war will not end terrorism: Ahmadinejad
  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs yesterday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing influence.
  
  
• Abbas Rejects New Peace Negotiations
  Hopes for restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks looked to be shattered last night when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected any negotiations after Israel's announcement to build 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem.
  
  
• Cartoonist unfazed by alleged plot
  A Swedish cartoonist said yesterday he was unfazed after Irish police arrested seven people for plotting to kill him over his 2007 drawing of the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. "I'm not shaking with fear, exactly," Lars Vilks told Swedish news agency TT. "I have prepared in different ways and I ha
  
  
• Disability groups slam move to sterilize disabled girl, 11
  The parents of a profoundly disabled 11-year-old girl have won a court case to have her sterilized, prompting claims that the ruling amounted to an "abuse of human rights."
  
  
• French teacher sprayed with tear gas by student after calling al-Qaeda 'terrorists'
  A 15-year-old French schoolboy sprayed a teacher with tear gas after she described al-Qaeda as a "terrorist group." "I had just explained that the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, were carried out by the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, as is written in the textbook," said the history teacher, speaking on conditi
  
  
• U.S. to launch 'decisive phase' in Afghan war
  U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told troops in southern Afghanistan yesterday they would soon be part of a "decisive phase" in the war -- an operation to impose control over the Taliban heartland of Kandahar province.
  
  
• Body of former Cyprus president found
  Former president Tassos Papadopoulos's body was found in a shallow grave three months after it was robbed from his family plot, Cyprus police said yesterday, following a tip-off call in "broken Greek." The discovery, in a case that has shocked the Mediterranean island, sparked a bizarre dispute between Just
  
  
• China, India to back Copenhagen accord
  China and India announced yesterday they would back the 11th-hour climate accord hammered out in Copenhagen in December, removing doubts that the world's two most populous countries fully supported the contested deal. In a letter dated March 9, posted on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change website
  
  
• Bodybuilder kills ex-wife's mother, self
  A bodybuilder who is believed to have gone hunting for his estranged wife ended up stabbing her mother to death. He then scrawled a message to his wife in blood before killing himself. Sebastian Mercante, reported to be a former French Foreign Legion member, travelled from Spain to Huddersfield in the north
  
  
• New gunfire sends Nigerians fleeing
  Fresh gunfire has sent Christian villagers in Nigeria fleeing as a senior official accused the country's military chiefs of having ignored warnings about last weekend's massacre.
  
  
• Biden condemns Israel over new homes
  U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden yesterday condemned Israeli plans to build 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem, saying such a move undermined peace talks.
  
  
• Ottawa wary of U.S. bill to end NAFTA
  The Harper government sought yesterday to fend off a new trade threat from U.S. lawmakers pushing legislation to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement.