Madeleine McCann’s parents are “greatly encouraged” by new information about the disappearance of their daughter, they said in a statement.

The McCanns’ pain over the disappearance of their daughter was “multiplied 100 times” by a book by a former Portuguese police chief, a court has heard.

British detectives have launched their own investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance and say they have “genuinely new” lines of inquiry and believe there is a chance she is alive.

Kate and Gerry McCann have said they have “no doubt” the Portuguese authorities will eventually reopen the investigation into their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.

Kate and Gerry McCann will mark the fifth anniversary of their daughter, Madeleine’s, disappearance this week amid renewed hopes she will be found.

Julian Assange has claimed he has suffered from inaccurate and negative media coverage “possibly on a scale not seen since the abuse of the McCanns”.

The News of the World’s former head of news was told to deliberately mislead the McCanns’ spokesman about the newspaper’s plans to publish Kate McCann’s diary, he said.

THE mother of missing schoolgirl Amy Fitzpatrick is convinced her daughter is still alive and believes she is living with an older man who has brainwashed her.

FORMER Portuguese detective Goncalo Amaral yesterday lost an attempt to overturn a ban on his book claiming that Madeleine McCann is dead.

Madeleine McCann’s parents will lodge a complaint with Portuguese police alleging that former detective Goncalo Amaral broke his country’s strict judicial secrecy laws, the couple’s lawyer has said.

Goncalo Amaral vowed today to appeal to Europe if he loses a legal battle over his book which claims that Madeleine McCann is dead.

Kate McCann admitted today that listening to claims that she faked her daughter Madeleine's abduction was difficult - but said nothing could be as bad as losing her child.

GERRY McCANN yesterday defended his legal action against a Portuguese detective who led the investigation into his daughter’s disappearance, saying his book had damaged the search for Madeleine.

YOU could hardly imagine a more homely or tranquil scene: a young couple take time out to do a spot of gardening while their toddler plays happily nearby.

Kate McCann has spoken of how she cries every day for her missing daughter Madeleine.

Private detectives hired by Madeleine McCann’s parents want to trace a “Victoria Beckham lookalike” with an Australian or New Zealand accent, it was reported today.

KATE and Gerry McCann flew to the United States yesterday to film an interview for the Oprah Winfrey Show to mark two years since their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.

Seven friends who were on holiday with Kate and Gerry McCann when their daughter Madeleine vanished are to receive a “substantial” libel payout from a newspaper group, a source said today.

Twenty-six jobs are to go in Co Kildare with the closure of the Odlums milling and packaging plant in Sallins.

MOST of the Portuguese police officers who looked for Madeleine McCann after her disappearance had no formal training in missing people searches, case files revealed yesterday.

A woman captured on CCTV in Belgium a week ago with a young girl resembling Madeleine McCann has still not come forward despite massive publicity.

Kate and Gerry McCann will not “commit themselves emotionally” about any sightings of their daughter Madeleine until they have been confirmed officially, their spokesman said today.

Files from the Portuguese police investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance have helped her parents to “draw strength” because of the lack of any evidence that their daughter is dead, the family spokesman said today.

The secrets of Portuguese detectives’ investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance were laid bare today with the official release of thousands of pages of evidence.

PORTUGUESE detectives made Madeleine McCann’s parents suspects on the “slightest chance” they could have been involved in her disappearance, a leaked report revealed yesterday.

Portuguese detectives made Madeleine McCann’s parents suspects on the “slightest chance” they could have been involved in her disappearance, a leaked report revealed today.

Kate and Gerry McCann refused to rule out taking legal action against the Portuguese authorities for wrongly making them suspects in their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.

The Portuguese authorities’ decision to shelve the Madeleine McCann investigation leaves the little girl’s parents back where they began 14 agonising months ago.

BRITISH forensic analysis produced contradictory results on the key question of whether Madeleine McCann’s DNA was found in her parents’ hire car, according to a leaked Portuguese prosecutors’ report.

The Portuguese authorities’ decision to shelve the Madeleine McCann investigation leaves the little girl’s parents back where they began 14 agonising months ago.

Gerry and Kate McCann were given fresh heartbreak today as they waited to learn whether they will be cleared of involvement in their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.

British police have travelled to Portugal to meet the public prosecutor in the Madeleine McCann case as the inquiry apparently draws to a close.

The parents of Madeleine McCann could face charges of neglecting their daughter on the night she disappeared, it has emerged.

PORTUGUESE police are set to stage a reconstruction of the events surrounding Madeleine McCann’s disappearance later this month, it emerged yesterday.

People around the world will light candles for missing Madeleine McCann tomorrow as her parents mark an agonising year without her.

Private detectives hired by Kate and Gerry McCann are investigating the attempted abduction of a girl less than 30 miles from where Madeleine went missing, it emerged today.

Madeleine McCann’s parents believe their daughter is still “probably alive” almost a year after her disappearance.

Madeleine McCann asked her mother just hours before her disappearance: “Why didn’t you come when we were crying last night?”, it has emerged.

Kate and Gerry McCann want a specialist European policy centre to help find missing children like their daughter Madeleine, an MEP in the UK said today.

KATE MCCANN is “upset” at a decision by police to invite her and Gerry back to Portugal to take part in a reconstruction, a friend of the couple said yesterday.

Portuguese police are arriving in the UK tomorrow to sit in as the friends of Kate and Gerry McCann are interviewed.

Missing Madeleine McCann’s parents could be allowed to see the Portuguese authorities’ case against them within a fortnight, one of their lawyers said today.

British and Portuguese police have met to discuss re-interviewing the friends who dined with Madeleine McCann's parents on the day she disappeared.

The parents of missing toddler Madeleine McCann were tonight said to be “extremely disappointed” that Portuguese police have asked for an extension to the secrecy rules around the case.