Relatives of Briton Akmal Shaikh today said the UK government’s failure to prevent his execution in China showed Britain’s “powerlessness in the world”.

A PALESTINIAN suicide bomber blew himself up yesterday among shoppers waiting to enter a shopping mall in the central Israeli town of Netanya, killing at least five bystanders and wounding more than 30.

Palestinian presidential front-runner Mahmoud Abbas on denounced Israel as the “Zionist enemy” today – his harshest language yet on the campaign trail -, after Israeli tank shells slammed into a strawberry patch, killing seven Palestinians, many of them children.

SINGLE mother Amina Lawal has launched an appeal against an adultery conviction that could see her become the first Nigerian to be stoned to death since the return of Islamic law.

Baby in her arms, a single mother condemned by an Islamic court to death by stoning appeared in a Nigerian court today today to appeal against the sentence that has drawn an international outcry.

THIS is Amina Lawal.

AMNESTY International has said Ireland’s representative at this year’s Miss World contest should withdraw instead of ignoring human rights issues in Nigeria.

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said he would weep if a single mother sentenced to death

The Nigerian president says he will weep if a single mother sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock is killed.