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An AIDS patient involved in an awareness campaign has been banned from staying with his family by elders in his Murshidabad village.
Twenty-six-year-old Ananda Biswas’s wife, too, has been denied a job at the local health centre in Nabagram, about 230km from Calcutta, because of her husband’s illness.
Since May 28, Ananda (name changed) has been living [...]

LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the kidnapping of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews in Yorkshire arrested two members of her stepfather’s family on Friday.
Nine-year-old Shannon’s disappearance in February sparked a huge search before she was found safe and well last month.
Media reports identified the pair as Amanda Hyett, 25, and Alice Meehan, 49, [...]

By Peter Graff BAGHDAD, April 3 (Reuters) - The fighters came across the stinking creek and within hours they had overrun three Iraqi army checkpoints. U.S. forces rushed to help them regroup. The battle of Creek Road in Baghdad formed just a small part of the fight that raged for [...]

Worry has been Travis Vanness’ constant companion for the past two weeks.
His 65-year-old father, Calvin Vanness, has been missing since March 26, a disappearance which Belleville police are calling “extremely suspicious.”
The length of time since any contact has been made with his father is discouraging, Travis said.
“Going for maybe three days without hearing from him [...]

Worry has been Travis Vanness’ constant companion for the past two weeks.
His 65-year-old father, Calvin Vanness, has been missing since March 26, a disappearance which Belleville police are calling “extremely suspicious.”
The length of time since any contact has been made with his father is discouraging, Travis said.
“Going for maybe three days without hearing from him [...]

LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the kidnapping of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews in Yorkshire arrested two members of her stepfather’s family on Friday.
Nine-year-old Shannon’s disappearance in February sparked a huge search before she was found safe and well last month.
Media reports identified the pair as Amanda Hyett, 25, and Alice Meehan, 49, [...]

A man who dangled his estranged teenaged wife from a 10-floor balcony near Bathurst St. and St. Clair Ave. before dropping her to her death pleaded guilty yesterday to second-degree murder. The night before Zohaib Shaukat killed 19-year-old Seema Badhan on May 26, [...]

The IPCC was set up four years ago this month to replace a discredited Police
Complaints Authority. %26ldquo;Investigation of police officers by their own or
another police service is widely regarded as unjust and does not inspire
public confidence,%26rdquo; Sir William Macpherson wrote in his inquiry into the
killing of Stephen Lawrence.
The IPCC has been under fire since the [...]

No one claimed responsibility for killing the commander, Imad Mugniyah, who had been in hiding for many years and was one of the most wanted and elusive terrorists in the world. Mr. Mugniyah, 45, was suspected of planning the 1983 bombings of the American Embassy and a Marine barracks in Beirut; the hijacking of [...]

Within minutes, the Irvington police and detectives with the Essex County prosecutor%26#8217;s office had forced their way into the man%26#8217;s home, a second-floor apartment in a two-family house on Arverne Terrace in Irvington, coming upon a horrific scene. Blood was spattered throughout the apartment. Furniture was askew and shattered, the authorities said, as if [...]