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A 15-year-old boy who took part in the shocking gang-rape of a 12-year old Jewish girl in a Paris suburb last year has had his sentence reduced. The teenager was sentenced to nine years in prison by the juvenile court in Nanterre, Paris,…

An Algerian woman raped, tortured and murdered a 12-year-old girl after a dispute with the child's mother, a court heard today in a case that has shocked France.Dahbia Benkired, 27, is accused of luring Lola Daviet to her death,…

Kait Handler's debilitating battle with food started as a child and it is still something that haunts her to this day. So when the yo-yo dieter noticed her own daughter Birdie started developing the same issues around her weight at the…

Defiant Dreamsby Sola Mahfouz and Maliana Kapoor (Doubleday £16.99, 320pp)At the beginning of her compelling memoir of escape from Afghanistan, Sola Mahfouz writes: ‘I began to grow up the day my mother told me to stop laughing.’That…