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A 15-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly groped and raped by two North African migrants on the commuter train from Milan to Mortara Thursday afternoon. On Saturday morning, the girl was hospitalized with multiple bruises, a concussion and a broken rib, and police have launched a search for the assailants accused of aggravated assault and sexual assault. According to police reports, after school—around 4:00pm—the girl went to the Milan station of Porta Genova to catch the local commuter train home, sitting with a friend in the last carriage. When the friend got off the train at an earlier stop, the girl was...

Kidnapped ‘Chibok girl’ returns after five months in captivity. Spends initial night of freedom screaming ‘They will kill me!’ ... Some 276 female students were abducted by Nigeria's Islamic militant Boko Haram fighters from the Government Secondary School where they had gathered to write final examinations in the early hours of April 15. Fifty-seven escaped by themselves that night or the following day - some by jumping from the open-backed trucks that transported them and clinging to branches of low-hanging trees.

North Korea shot back today at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who recently likened the isolated regime to a child demanding attention..... 'We cannot but regard Mrs. Clinton as a funny lady as she likes to utter such rhetoric, unaware of the elementary etiquette in the international community.' The ministry added her words 'suggests she is by no means intelligent.' Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping'. The ministry added: "Anyone making misstatements has to pay for them," but did not elaborate.

There should only have been one winner. On the riverbank was Jessica Wanstall, 4ft 10in tall weighing less than six stone (84lb) and something of a tiddler among anglers. In the river was a monster, a near 9ft catfish that hit the scales at a record 13st 8lb (193lb). But despite its size and whiskery age, the fish was no match for the skills of 11-year-old Jessica who waged a 20-minute battle to land her prize Jessica, from Sittingbourne, Kent, hooked the fish during a trip with her father to the Ebro River in North-East Spain. She said: ‘I didn’t...

Responding to threats from the Taliban, at least 10 girls' schools have shut down near Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. Visiting the schools is a dangerous proposition -- a trip leading directly into the heart of Islamist territory. When the deputy director of Aqtash High School talks of the government, he isn't referring to Hamid Karzai's central government in Kabul. Nor does he refer to the provincial administration in Kunduz. "The Taliban are our government," Bashir says. "They have taken over our region, their commanders give the orders here." Bashir is standing in a dusty classroom on the ground floor of...

Japan's elementary school girl Ai Mizota (front) and Hana Fujio compete at the Wrestling Japan Beverage Queen's Cup 2007 in Tokyo April 14, 2007. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN) Japan's elementary school girl Setsuna Isnono (R) competes with Hideka Mitsui at the Wrestling Japan Beverage Queen's Cup 2007 in Tokyo April 14, 2007. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN) Elementary schoolgirl Ruka Akihito (R) competes with Remina Yoshimoto at the Wrestling Japan Beverage Queen's Cup 2007 in Tokyo April 14, 2007. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (JAPAN) Japan's elementary school girl Misuko Miyakuchi (R) competes with Yasuha Matsuyuki at the Wrestling Japan Beverage Queen's Cup 2007 in...

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NEW ORLEANS A fourth-grade girl will be able to return to her suburban New Orleans school tomorrow after serving a nine-day suspension for bringing in what appeared to be Jell-O shots. Neither police nor school officials will say whether the gelatin cups actually contained alcohol. The appearance they contained alcohol was enough to discipline her under school rules. The girl's mother works at a French Quarter bar. She has insisted the Jell-O cups were non-alcoholic. A school system spokesman says the girl told her principal that her mom told her to take the shots to school and sell them "to...

BOSTON - John Kerry bounced the ceremonial first pitch during last night's Red Sox-Yankees game at Fenway Park, but he said he was just going easy on the National Guard soldier and Iraq war veteran standing in as catcher. "I held back," Mr. Kerry told reporters early this morning, on the plane ride after the game. "He was very nervous. I tried to lob it gently."

An 11-year-old girl slashed a female classmate to death with a razor knife yesterday in a shocking attack in an elementary school in southern Japan, police said. The lunchtime assault happened in a classroom in Sasebo, 980km southwest to Tokyo, an official with the Nagasaki Prefectural police said on condition of anonymity. Police in Sasebo said the victim suffered wounds to the neck and arms. She was stabbed with a small knife with a retractable razor used to cut paper, police said. Police identified the victim as Satomi Mitarai, 12. The name of the attacker was not released, in accordance...

Police carrying out an international manhunt for a former US marine who vanished with a 12-year-old British girl used "mind games" devised by experts to secure her safe return home.Toby Studabaker, 31, was arrested in the German city of Frankfurt Wednesday after disappearing with Shevaun Pennington, a case that sparked huge media attention.The schoolgirl was safely returned to her parents in Manchester, northwest England, five days after running away to Paris with the former marine whom she met over the Internet. Shevaun had been urged to return home in a series of press appeals designed by police psychologists, according to...

Japan 'cross-dresser' thief unmasked Japanese police say they have arrested an unemployed man who disguised himself as a schoolgirl to rob women in the city of Nagoya. Yoshikuni Moriwaki, 24, admitted carrying out a series of robberies clad in a navy blue miniskirt, white blouse and shoulder-length brown wig, police said. In the most recent incident, he allegedly rode behind a woman on a bicycle and snatched her bag from the front basket as he overtook her. He was later spotted near a local train station in his trademark school uniform. According to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, he was hampered...