New DNA evidence obtained by French detectives on a sex killer from Germany is leading to the re-examination of many unsolved rape and murder cases in Britain, police in the UK said today.

ONE of the cardinal rules of journalism relates to statistics. Don’t drizzle them all over your articles, wizened news editors will tell you. Use no more than a pinch and then sparingly.

Chile’s Supreme Court has refused to strip General Augusto Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution, blocking yet another attempt to try him for alleged human rights abuses during his dictatorship.

Chile’s former dictator General Augusto Pinochet is under house arrest after a judge indicted him for the kidnapping of nine dissidents and the killing of one of them during his 1973-1990 military regime.

An appeals court today stripped former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution for a 1974 car bombing that killed an exiled general.