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A woman waiting for a bus was raped and left for dead in a savage attack described by detectives as attempted murder. An 18-year-old woman was attacked in the Malvern Road area of Leeds shortly before 11pm on Friday night. >Snip< Police are seeking a slim Asian man in his 20s in connection with the assault.

Muslims say they helped dent Blair majority Fri May 6, 2005 2:42 PM BST Printer Friendly | Email Article | RSS By Tim Castle LONDON (Reuters) - Tactical voting by Muslim voters angry over the war in Iraq played a role in denting Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour majority in parliament, the Muslim Association of Britain said on Friday. "The results of the general election have clearly reflected the depth of frustration and anger throughout the country as to the government's position on Iraq," said the MAB, an umbrella group of about 400 Muslim organisations in Britain. Anti-Iraq war campaigner...

More than half of British people have no idea why Easter is celebrated, a survey revealed. Just 48 per cent of some 1,000 adults questioned for the Reader's Digest Magazine poll correctly answered the resurrection of Christ. In addition, a massive 92 per cent failed to recognise Karol Wojtyla is better known as Pope John Paul II, according to the survey. People appeared to struggle with religious figureheads, with two-thirds clueless as to the identity of the Archbishop of Cantebury Rowan Williams and 42 per cent unable to name Judas Iscariot as the man who betrayed Jesus. Despite their lack...