The father of a pregnant Pakistani woman who was stoned to death, and four other men, have been charged with killing her after she married against the family’s wishes. Their trial is set to begin today, police said.

Four more people have been arrested in connection with the killing of a woman in Pakistan who was beaten and stoned to death by her family for marrying without their permission.

The husband of a pregnant Pakistani woman bludgeoned to death outside a courthouse murdered his first wife, he told AFP yesterday, in a gruesome twist to a story that has shocked rights activists.

A woman was stoned to death by her own family in front of a Pakistani high court yesterday for marrying the man she loved, police and a defence lawyer said.

A woman has been stoned to death by her family in front of a Pakistan high court for marrying the man she loved, police and lawyers said.

Police in France have arrested a 48-year-old man in connection with the 2012 killings of a British-Iraqi family and a cyclist in the Alps, in their first breakthrough in the case.

Police investigating the murders of three members of a British-Iraqi family in the French Alps have said they are not ruling out a dispute over a family inheritance as the motive.

Police probing the murder of a British-Iraqi family in the French Alps last year are looking into telephone calls to Romania made from the phone of the brother of one of the victims, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation said.

Four Britons have been jailed for plotting al Qaeda-inspired bombings across the country, including an attack on an army base using a remote-controlled toy car packed with explosives which they planned to drive under the gates.

The devastated family of a schoolboy murdered in a bungled Mafia-style hit yesterday said they did not want revenge for his death.

Executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein once gave a £840,000 (€1.4m) fortune to the father of a Briton who was murdered in an Alps massacre, it has been claimed.

About 200 Muslim rebels led by their elusive chief have arrived in the Philippine capital for the signing of a preliminary peace pact aimed at ending one of Asia’s longest-running insurgencies.

Ireland warmed up for their T20 World Cup battle with Australia in fine fettle after they beat Bangladesh in a thrilling tie by five runs at the Moors Cricket Ground in Colombo, Sri Lanka yesterday.

An RAF cyclist said that he came across the horrific French Alps killings to find a little girl "stumbling" around, bleeding and "moaning", it has emerged today.

A walker has described his horror on arrival at the remote spot where a British man was murdered alongside his wife and mother-in-law in a shooting spree in the French Alps.

A walker who came upon the aftermath of a massacre in the French Alps has likened the carnage to a horrific film scene.

Four people shot dead in the French Alps were killed with the same gun, police say, fuelling speculation they were targeted by a contract killer.

A schoolgirl whose parents were murdered in a shooting spree during a family holiday in the French Alps has spoken to police.

A seven-year-old school girl from England whose parents were murdered in a shooting spree during a family holiday in the French Alps has spoken to police.

A bomb disposal squad spent more than two hours at the Surrey home of the French Alps shooting spree victims today after police raised concerns about items found at the property.

Police investigating the French Alps shooting spree today evacuated an area around the victims’ home in Surrey due to “concerns” about items found at the address.

A girl of four who survived the French Alps shooting spree has returned to the UK, while her seriously injured older sister has come out of a coma following the attack that left their parents dead.

A young girl who was in a coma after her parents were gunned down in the French Alps today recovered consciousness, while her four-year-old sister returned to the UK with relatives.

A four-year-old girl who witnessed her parents gunned down in the French Alps has returned to the UK, while her older sister is no longer in a coma, investigators said today.

British police today resumed their search at the home of the family gunned down in the French Alps.

Police investigating the murder of four people in the French Alps have sent four officers to Britain to find out more about victim Saad al Hilli’s life.

Police investigating the murder of four people who were gunned down in the French Alps have sent four officers to Britain to find out more about victim Saad al-Hilli’s life.

Investigators are hoping the seven-year-old British girl who survived the shooting of three members of her family will provide the key to solving the killings.

Post mortems are due to be carried out today on the three members of a British-Iraqi family - and another man - who were shot dead in the French Alps yesterday.

A neighbour of the British family who were brutally killed in the French Alps has described Saad al Hilli as a “massively helpful man” and “a wonderful engineer”.

Nearly 24 hours later, there is still no idea why three members of a British family were gunned down in an act of “savagery” in the French Alps.

An American convicted of helping plan the 2008 Mumbai terrorist massacre has backed claims that Pakistan was heavily involved in the attack.

At least 23 people were killed in suicide bombings targeting religious minorities in Pakistan today.

Three suspected Muslim separatist rebels have been charged in connection with the kidnapping of an Irish priest in the Philippines, the national police chief said today.

IRISH priest Fr Michael Sinnott, who was being held hostage by rebels in the Philippines, was released last night.

A Pakistani intelligence agency has revealed that they have proof that a banned militant group was directly involved in last year’s terror attacks in Mumbai.

CONCERN is mounting for four Pakistani crewmen who have been abandoned without wages or food on board a trawler anchored off a Cork port for over month.

A Pakistani terrorist jailed for six years in 2007 came to the UK on a student visa and later settled in the area where four of this week’s alleged al-Qaida bomb plot suspects lived.

Pakistan authorities have seized two vehicles carrying large amounts of explosives, foiling a possible terror plot near Pakistan's capital, officials said.

Seven people were killed, including two children, when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a police outpost today in Pakistan’s Swat valley, the site of an ongoing military operation against Islamic militants loyal to a fugitive cleric.

Pakistan’s opposition parties neared agreement today on their demands for President Pervez Musharraf in return for calling off a boycott of next month’s parliamentary elections.

Pakistani authorities began releasing some of the thousands of opposition supporters detained since emergency rule was imposed earlier this month, officials said today.

Pakistan’s government today urged exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif not to return home, saying he should honour a promise he made to stay away after being ousted from power.

A court today ordered the arrest of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s brother, three days before the siblings are to return to Pakistan to challenge President Gen Pervez Musharraf, a lawyer said.