One is a predatory paedophile described as a persistent threat to young boys. The other is a Gurkha hero wounded while fighting in the Falklands War. No prizes for guessing which of these two men was accepted to start a new life in Britain yesterday.

CHINESE TORTURE FOR ORGAN THEFT-the organs are harvested from the practitioners while they are still alive. The practitioners are killed in the course of the organ harvesting operations or immediately thereafter.

The justice system of Mexico has no category called "political prisoners." The public knows men and women have been unlawfully grabbed, tortures, raped and/or jailed, as deterrents to social movements. The human rights organizations protest. Posters appea

Britain called for a resumption of negotiations between China and Tibet yesterday after talks between Gordon Brown and his Beijing counterpart and an announcement by Mr Brown that he would meet the Dalai Lama in May.

Poll: 71 percent think Iraq spending hurts economy; the other 29% $till $upport Bu$h and Mc$ame.

China's authorities have arrested 24 people following protests against Chinese rule in the Tibetan city of Lhasa, according to official media.

Two coordinated bomb blasts blamed on al Qaeda killed 55 people in a crowded Baghdad shopping area on Thursday, on the day the U.S. military said it was withdrawing 2,000 troops from the Iraqi capital. Police said a roadside bomb exploded on a street in

Global police body Interpol is circulating fingerprints and images of Mas Selamat Kastari to 186 countries. He is thought to be a leader of the Jemaah Islamiah militant group. Police believe he planned attacks on the US embassy in Singapore and plotted to

North Korea has executed 22 fishermen who strayed out of the country's waters by mistake, it was claimed yesterday. The group were apparently gunned down once they returned to the Stalinist state. Having drifted into South Korean territory, they had the

Detectives searching for missing West Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews have said they fear she may have fallen into the "wrong hands". Det Supt Andy Brennan, leading the search for the nine-year-old who has been missing for a week, said he was