Staff at an inner-city high school made pupils settle differences by fighting bare-knuckle brawls inside a steel cage, a shock report revealed.

Some Roman Catholic religious orders have been sheltering priests in Rome despite claims that the men sexually abused children, it was reported today.

A cardinal mentioned as a candidate to be the next Pope sent a fugitive priest accused of molesting an altar boy in Costa Rica to work in two remote parishes in Honduras, it was reported today.