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Vicars told not to wear dog collars in public as it makes them a target for muggersBy CHRIS BROOKE - More by this author » Last updated at 15:25pm on 7th October 2007  Warning: Vicars advised not to wear their dog collars in public because they are more likely to be attacked   Vicars are being advised to take off their dog collars when they go out while off duty to reduce the risk of being attacked by yobs. New advice states that even the Archbishop of Canterbury should remove his dog collar outside church. Priests should also seek...

The hearing of US Army Private Lynndie England, accused of abusing Iraqi detainees, began here Tuesday with the pregnant young soldier facing a possible court-martial and a maximum sentence of 38 years in a military jail. England, 21, arrived at the hearing at Fort Bragg wearing camouflage military dress, flanked by her legal team and her mother, Terrie. She was escorted into the proceeding by several military policemen amid tight security. "The total maximum punishment that PFC (Private First Class) England potentially could receive if she is convicted of all charges and specifications is a dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all...

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq — On the eve of the first court-martial in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal, relatives of those still held at Abu Ghraib prison said Tuesday the only suitable punishment would be death -- illustrating the potential gap in expectations in the case. "If they actually committed such offenses, they should be executed," said Odai Ibrahim, 55, as he waited in a line with hundreds of other Iraqis to visit relatives at the prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad -- notorious as the site of executions and torture during Saddam Hussein's regime.