GCSE essays 'sickeningly violent'
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Examiners raise concerns over the "sickeningly violent" content they found in some English GCSE essays.
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CHALLENGING deeply-ingrained preconceptions isn't easy-just ask Liverpool-based refugee Gordon Hurd. Shock, horror headlines screaming of suicide bombers and benefit cheats have made their mark on our society, including impressionable schoolchildren.
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Animal rights extremists are putting a horrified family through a cruel and macabre ordeal, it emerged yesterday.
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Description: Recent articles in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine say US military doctors were complicit in the abuse and torture of Iraqis detained at Abu Ghraib prison. Hear NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel and Dr. William Winkenwerder, Assistant ...
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A disturbed 14-year-old wounds four before killing himself in Clevelandâjust another spasm of violence in another bloody year for Americaâs schools. How to spot trouble before it opens fireâand the ongoing debate over blame for a cycle that just wonât stop.
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Evidence of more prisoner abuse in Iraq has come to light after the US military was forced to release it by the courts. The documents show that US marines carried out a mock execution, used electric shocks and burned prisoners.
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MY SON is sitting his GCSEs in the next few weeks and I wondered if there is anything he should be eating to give him the best chance of doing his best? Katherine Casey, by e-mail. WHAT we eat and drink can have a significant impact on our day-to-day memory.
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Farcical. Lamentable. Simply dangerous. It seems no words are too strong to express France's outrage with a lawmaker who embarked on what the government insists was a private mission to free three hostages in Iraq.
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Authorities released nearly 1,000 pages of new documents from the Columbine High School massacre Thursday, including step-by-step plans written by the two killers as they gleefully plotted the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
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Many mental health wards in Britain may do more harm than good and on some, patients are subjected to violence, verbal abuse and sexual harassment, according to special reports in the Lancet on Friday.
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It&#39;s violent. It&#39;s profane and politically incorrect. It&#39;s packed wall to wall with tough thugs doing terrible things.
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The reports coming out of Kansas over the weekend seem beyond grisly, as if pulled from a horror movie: a woman kills an expectant mother, rips a baby girl from the victim&#39;s abdomen, then
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"They are traumatized because of the violence they face every day and they don't have the skills to deal with it"  It is a tragedy becoming too familiar for a country where gun crime is still relatively uncommon and where limits on gun ownership are strict _ an 11-year-old boy shot to death, allegedly by a hooded teenager on a BMX bicycle.Rhys Jones, a cherubic-faced boy who liked playing tag and video games, was in a pub's parking lot kicking a soccer ball around with friends Wednesday when two youths rode by and fired shots.Rhys died of a single bullet wound to the neck, the latest victim in a rising wave of youth violence that is sparking soul-searching about why some British children stray into lawlessness. Read more
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Researchers who studied prisoners in the former Yugoslavia reported on Monday that psychological torment and humiliation can inflict as much terror and trauma as physical torture.
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new attacks by youth gangs after gunmen murdered 28 people on a public bus earlier this week. searched for gang members involved in the bus attack.
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The slayings were shocking enough by themselves: In February, an out-of-work mechanic allegedly abducted, raped and killed an 11-year-old girl. In August, six people were bludgeoned to death in what was believed to be a dispute over a video game. The news that followed arrests in both cases was even more alarming: The accused murderers had recently violated probation and probably shouldn't have been on the street.
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KRT) - Jannes Zimmermann, a serious-minded 19-year-old, wrote a letter to his draft board saying that the idea of being trained to kill another human being was morally repugnant.