Kevin Stevens has written a book about tolerance. He talks to Sue Leonard about the fear caused by racial bias and misunderstanding in today’s world.

Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 141 people, mostly children, before Pakistani officials declared a military operation to clear the school over.

The death toll in a Taliban attack on a school in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan has risen to 126, an official says.

Scores of students have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to reports.

Twenty students and one soldier have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, a hospital official said.

The husband of a woman and three children who died in an arson attack on their home has said he has no hatred for the eight men convicted over their deaths.

Two men have been found guilty of murdering a mother and her three children in a botched revenge attack.

Two men have been found guilty of murdering the wife and three children of an Ireland-based surgeon in a botched revenge attack.

The US has confirmed that American troops are holding a senior Pakistani Taliban commander.

An 18-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with a house fire which killed four family members of a Dublin surgeon.

Three women arrested as part of an investigation into a fatal house fire which killed four members of the same family of a Dublin surgeon killed have been bailed.

A neurosurgeon has spoken of his grief after his family was killed in a suspected arson attack as police continue to question five people over the fatal house fire.

A Dublin neurosurgeon has spoken of his grief after his family was killed in a suspected arson attack as police continue to question five people over the fatal house fire.

The four family members of a Dublin surgeon killed in a recent house fire had no connections to a street attack in which a man was murdered, police have confirmed today.

A family murdered in a suspected revenge attack may have been the victims of mistaken identity, a neighbour has said.

British detectives are investigating after the wife and children of a Dublin-based surgeon were killed in a house fire in England.

Immigrant riots across Europe are not the fault of nations. Some prefer violence, writes Ben Dror Yemini

More Israeli airstrikes hit crowded areas in the Gaza Strip today, increasing the civilian death toll.

AN AUSTRALIAN man has been sentenced to 500 lashes and a year in a Saudi Arabian jail after being convicted of blasphemy.

Fears are growing for four Americans whose yacht was captured a by pirates in the Indian Ocean off the Somali coast.

One of Britain’s best-known Anglo-Asian writers tells David Kernek that, unlike many of his fictional creations, he’s a happy man.

United Nations aid workers in Pakistan still fear terrorist attacks, despite being given increased security following a suicide raid that killed five of them.

Taliban militants claimed responsibility today for a suicide bomb attack at the UN food agency in Pakistan’s capital in which five people were killed, saying international relief work in Pakistan was not in “the interest of Muslims”.

Eighteen-year-old Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) has been raised by his older brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) since they were orphaned as children.

'Slumdog Millionaire' on-screen lovers Dev Patel and Freida Pinto are dating in real life, their co-star suggested today.

We have here one of those rare films that entertain greatly, lift the spirits and send us home happy in the knowledge that life can be more than credit crunches and empty pockets.

THE Migrants Rights Centre of Ireland (MRCI) has claimed foreign- national restaurant workers are being paid as little as €2 per hour while working up to 75 hours of week.

Dozens of insurgents in eastern Afghanistan were killed in a battle today after more than 100 attacked a government centre near the border with Pakistan, officials said.

Barnsley's Jamal Campbell-Ryce put sentiment to one side as he returned to Southend to knock his former club out of the FA Cup with the only goal in their fourth round tie.

IRAQI security forces were on high alert yesterday around Baghdad and in the Sunni heartland north of the capital as the country marked the one-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s execution.

Taliban militants wearing Afghan army uniforms attacked a remote Nato base in eastern Afghanistan today, leaving two Afghan soldiers dead and 11 alliance soldiers wounded, a statement from Nato said.

A rush-hour crawl that gave vehicles little momentum to slide into the river and a bridge design that minimised falling debris appear to have kept the death toll relatively low in the collapse of a bridge into the Mississippi River.

Families waited anxiously for news of missing relatives as divers searched through the dangerous debris left by Wednesday’s bridge collapse.

A brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, wanted in the Philippines for alleged terror financing, has been killed in Madagascar in what appeared to be a burglary, the victim’s brother said today.

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a US military base in eastern Afghanistan today, killing 10 people and wounding 14 others.

Harsh winter weather is threatening to cut off more than 300,000 survivors of last year’s killer South Asian earthquake from critical food supplies, the United Nations warned today, as the season’s first snows began to fall.

Two gunmen on a motorbike killed the provincial director of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs outside her home in the southern city of Kandahar today.

Patricia Jamal today retired as a director of Anglo Irish Bank.

The US military has launched an investigation into claims that American forces shot dead 15 members of two families, including a three year-old-girl, shortly after a roadside bomb killed a US Marine in a western Iraqi town.

SADDAM HUSSEIN’S son-in-law Jamal Mustafa Sultan Abdullah al-Tikriti has surrendered in Syria and was being brought back to Iraq, it was disclosed last night.

Simon Callow stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in Christmas Carol — The Movie, an animated adaptation of Charles Dicken’s sombre tale about how Scrooge’s miserly ways dictate his whole outlook on life.

Reuters news agency has demanded that the Israeli authorities release one of their Palestinian cameramen, who was arrested 18 days ago and has still not been charged.

The Northern Alliance today claimed opposition forces in Afghanistan have seized an outlying district of the strategic Taliban-held city of Mazar-e-Sharif.