New Brutality And Intensity

A brutal winter storm brought Christmas Day danger and misery to millions of Americans Sunday as intense snow and frigid cold gripped parts of the eastern United States, with weather-related deaths rising to at least 32.

Girls gang raped by soldiers then burned alive, boys castrated, armies of child fighters: the litany of atrocities in South Sudan's civil war is growing, with the international community apparently powerless to stop the fighting.

South Sudan's army raped then torched girls alive inside their homes during a recent campaign notable for its "new brutality and intensity", a UN rights report said today.

On Wednesday night, in a small suburb of Christchurch, burly Kiwi batsman Jesse Ryder was brutally assaulted by at least two men as he was leaving a bar. When reports last came in, Ryder is in the intensive care unit of a hospital, having suffered an induced coma, a fractured skull and a collapsed lung.

A brutal winter storm brought Christmas Day danger and misery to millions of Americans Sunday as intense snow and frigid cold gripped parts of the eastern United States, with weather-related deaths rising to at least 32.

Girls gang raped by soldiers then burned alive, boys castrated, armies of child fighters: the litany of atrocities in South Sudan's civil war is growing, with the international community apparently powerless to stop the fighting.

South Sudan's army raped then torched girls alive inside their homes during a recent campaign notable for its "new brutality and intensity", a UN rights report said today.

On Wednesday night, in a small suburb of Christchurch, burly Kiwi batsman Jesse Ryder was brutally assaulted by at least two men as he was leaving a bar. When reports last came in, Ryder is in the intensive care unit of a hospital, having suffered an induced coma, a fractured skull and a collapsed lung.