A New York child can be sued for crashing a bicycle into an elderly pedestrian and causing injuries that led to her death, a judge has ruled.

Three thugs who tortured a vulnerable teenager for days have escaped prison sentences.

Medhat Singab, a 47-year-old Egyptian-born Briton, said the media was making a circus of “a church with 30 followers and an idiot.” “They can go on burning the Qur’an,” he said, “It’s not going to destroy Islam.”

Atul Khare told the Security Council that the scale of systematic rape by armed rebels was far worse than feared. He said that up to 500 women and children were now believed raped in recent weeks - more than double the previously reported figure.

Almost 200 women were gang-raped by rebel fighters who imposed a four-day reign of terror on a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, aid groups said.

UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon says he is outraged over the mass rape of more than 150 Congolese women and babies.

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