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A Danish man living in South Africa has been arrested after police claim to have found 21 pieces of female genitalia stashed inside his freezer. His arrest came after his wife, from Lesotho, told police he drugged her and cut off her genitalia while incapacitated. Named by Danish newspaper BT as 63-year-old Peter Frederiksen, it was revealed he had openly discussed practising female genital mutilation with a journalist in the past. Hangwani Mulaudzi, a South African police spokesman, told the paper: 'We have found 21 genitals from 21 women. 'The man's wife is one of the women. We are now...

Emergency workers are continuing to work their way through the ruins of a school in southern Italy which collapsed in an earthquake, but correspondents say they do not expect to find anyone alive. Three bodies are believed to remain under the rubble in San Giuliano di Puglia, more than 24 hours after the earthquake which was the worst to hit Italy for five years. At least 26 children - including an entire class of six-year-olds - and two women are now known to have died. Correspondents say the village has been stunned by the tragedy, but angry questions are...