An estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus were killed in 100 days in 1994 Friday, May 27, 2011
Rwanda genocide fugitive arrested
An estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus were killed in 100 days in 1994 A Rwandan genocide suspect on the run for 17 years has been arrested in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Bernard Munyagishari is accused of being a militia leader who masterminded the killing of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Gisenyi in 1994.
He was caught in an operation mounted by the Congolese army in collaboration with a tracking team from the UN court trying genocide suspects.
Some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in the 100-day genocide.
Nine other Rwandans accused of being key perpetrators of the genocide are still at large.
The BBC's East Africa correspondent Will Ross says Mr Munyagishari, once a teacher and football referee, was apprehended in North Kivu in eastern DR Congo - where many who took part in the 1994 genocide have been hiding and causing misery for the Congolese population.
Mr Munyagishari faces charges of genocide, murder and rape and is expected to be handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the court based in Tanzania set up to try the ringleaders of the genocide.
According to the indictment, he was the leader of the Interahamwe Hutu militia in Gisenyi in the west of the country.
He trained the fighters in the forests of Rwanda and armed them with the aim of wiping out the ethnic Tutsi population.
He is also accused of instigating attacks on churches where people had sought shelter.
The indictment added that he ordered a female militia group, headed by his wife, to sexually torture Tutsi women before killing them.
Our correspondent says one of the nine genocide suspects still at large is Felicien Kabuga, widely believed to have been protected for years by powerful politicians in Kenya.
Last week the chief prosecutor at the ICTR tribunal said the Kenyan government could be doing more to apprehend him.
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Local media in Serbia have shown pictures of a home in Lazarevo where they say Ratko Mladic had allegedly been hiding from authorities for over 10 years. 
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Some Lenovo ThinkPad X220 owners report downthrottling, reduced performance
No matter how much time we spend with a laptop while we review it, there are some things that are just harder to gauge -- namely, what happens once you've owned the thing for a while and the Sandy Bridge-fueled honeymoon comes to an end. That couldn't be more true of the Lenovo ThinkPad X220, one of our favorite ultraportables at the moment. We're seeing assorted reports from folks whose machines keep downthrottling to 800MHz, even when they're plugged in, set to the maximum performance profile, and not overheating. The result, they say, is slower HDD and SSD performance and reduced random read / write speeds, among other pernicious side effects. Worse, the only reliable solution so far seems to be shutting down the system and performing a cold boot. (For some -- but not all -- disabling Intel Speedstep and / or CPU Power Management in the BIOS works, too.) Judging by the threads in Lenovo's user forum, the company is definitely aware of the problem, though it's unclear if it's found a fix yet. We've pinged Lenovo for comment and will let you know what we hear. In the meantime, how's your X220 treating you?
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Why dogs may be able to help with autism
From getting dressed to stepping outside - how a pet dog is helping a child with autism
Dogs can help reduce stress in parents of children with lifelong developmental disability autism, a study suggests.
The University of Lincoln compared 20 families with dogs with 20 without.
Daniel Mills told a Royal Society of Medicine conference early results suggested any breed could improve communication and relationships.
The veterinary behavioural medicine professor hopes to use video footage to show how dogs can improve child eating, sleeping and tantrum behaviour.
At a three-day Parents' Autism Workshops and Support course, the families listed more than a thousand ways their dog had helped - from developing language and establishing a routine to using the pet to request action in a non-confrontational way.
The Saunders family decided to get Boogie, an 18-month King-Charles-cocker-spaniel cross, because of four-year-old son Oak's close connection with animals.
Professor Daniel Mills University of Lincoln“While there is no shortage of opinion on how dogs can help, there has been little money given to scientifically look into this."”
Rowan Saunders said: "Oak has particular problems with stepping out the front door. To him, it is like he is stepping off a cliff.
"So we have started to use Boogie to help Oak with transitions, from going from one situation to another.
"It is reassurance. He thinks that if Boogie can do it, then he can do it.
"Oak's verbal skills are better. He is eating different textured foods as he feeds Boogie different foods. We do a lot of grooming with Boogie, so Oak is learning about self-care and hygiene.
"In the last four months Oak has excelled himself - he keeps surprising us everyday."
Professor Mills said: "While there is no shortage of opinion on how dogs can help, there has been little money given to scientifically look into this."
The Dogs for the Disabled charity has had 1,300 inquiries during the past six months from parents asking how dogs could help them.
Oak and Boogie learn from each other Chief executive Peter Gorbing said: "Dogs are relatively low-cost and low-tech.
"Now is our moment. People were previously sceptical of what role they could play, but recently I have found a more receptive audience. Things are changing rapidly."
At the Royal Society of Medicine conference, it was also announced the first "alert dog" to help those with the sleep disorder narcolepsy had been placed with a young girl.
Medical Detection Dogs chief executive Claire Guest says: "It is very early stages yet, but we are hopeful.
"If successful, this dog could change the girl's life."
The charity is also using dogs to detect bladder and prostate cancers.
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Teacher attack Muslims are jailed
Four Muslim men who assaulted a religious education teacher because they did not approve of him teaching Muslim girls, have been jailed.
Gary Smith, 38, was beaten as he walked to Central Foundation Girls' School in Bow, east London, last July.
The gang left him unconscious after attacking him with a metal rod and a brick, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.
The four all pleaded guilty to GBH with intent and given an indeterminate jail sentence with a minimum of five years.
Judge John Hand QC“Your belief is that you carried out a duty to your God and you did so with no mercy”
Simon Alam, 19, of Whitechapel, Azad Hussain, 26, of Wapping, Sheikh Rashid, 27, of Shadwell, and Akmol Hussein, 26, of Bethnal Green, all in east London, were all jailed on Thursday.
Judge John Hand QC said he believed the four remained a danger to the public because of their extreme religious beliefs.
Addressing the defendants one by one, he said: "Your belief is that you carried out a duty to your God and you did so with no mercy.
"If you think that people around you in society present an insult or threat to God then you will not hesitate in attacking again in the way that you have acted."
The court heard Mr Smith suffered multiple injuries, has a permanent 4.7in (12cm) long deep scar across his left cheek, and the whole of the facial part of his skull was broken.
The court heard how the men were only caught because Hussein's car was being bugged on an unrelated matter.
Hussein, who had a niece at the school, was heard to say: "He's mocking us and he's putting thoughts in people's minds.
"How can somebody take a job to teach Islam when he's not even a Muslim himself?"
Hussein was also recorded as saying he did not care if he had to go to prison over the attack as he was doing it for the sake of Allah.
Prosecutor Sarah Whitehouse said Mr Smith had been head of religious studies at the school for eight years, was "by all accounts an able, enthusiastic and popular teacher".
The court heard he cannot remember the attack and has problems with his memory and sufferers from depression and anxiety - all of which now affect his ability to teach.
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A Merseyside man who gave bone marrow meets the leukaemia patient whose life was saved by his donation. 
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Worried parents 'bypassing GPs'
Fever was one of the 10 common problems parents sought help for Rising numbers of parents are bypassing GPs and taking children to hospitals' A&E departments for non-emergency treatment, researchers say.
Attendance for 10 common medical problems, including fever and rash, rose 42% in a decade at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, they said.
Difficulty accessing out-of-hours GP care may be to blame, they told the Emergency Medical Journal.
The government said it was developing a strategy for out-of-hours care.
It said it wanted to deliver high quality, urgent care services around the clock.
During the past 10 years, the way the NHS provides care for common medical problems at night and at weekends has changed.
GPs are no longer obliged to provide out-of-hours care and advice to worried parents, with large private companies now generally contracted to provide this instead.
John Heyworth President of the College of Emergency Medicine“We need to have more integrated care rather than the confusing, expensive system we have currently”
John Heyworth, president of the College of Emergency Medicine, says this has caused some confusion for patients and, in some instances, has made it harder for them to access care.
"Parents have found in the last few years that accessing primary care is more difficult than previously."
He said more and more patients were turning to A&E departments.
"We've been recognising this. Attendances are going up by between eight and nine per cent a year."
In the study spanning a decade, the number of patients attending the children's emergency department at Queen's remained similar, but the number attending with common medical problems had risen by 42%.
A total of 39,394 children were seen in 2007-8, of whom 14,724 had medical problems. This compared with 38,982 children seen overall in 1997, of whom 10,369 had medical problems.
Dr Heyworth said the findings highlighted the shortcomings in the way services were currently organised.
He said: "We need to have more integrated care rather than the confusing, expensive system we have currently.
"It is very patchy and the public are frankly getting a raw deal."
The college is calling for GP services to be co-located next to A&E departments to deal with people who need to see a GP.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "Our vision is to replace the ad-hoc, uncoordinated system that has developed over more than a decade, and has been characterised by poor quality and too much variation
Meanwhile, a study in the same journal reveals most UK hospital A&E departments are ill-equipped to treat children with serious head injuries.
A confidential enquiry found 87% of hospitals in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands and Isle of Man could not care for a critically ill child on site.
The authors say transferring these sick children some miles to other hospitals could harm their survival chances as treatment delays can prove fatal.
Around 210,000 children with head injuries attend hospital every year, and around 34,500 are admitted. A few children with serious head injuries will require emergency surgery and intensive care.
But the way services are currently organised - with centralised intensive care services - means some patients need to be transferred to get the care they need.
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Fatal India air ambulance crash
The plane broke into two and caught fire Authorities in India are investigating into the crash of a small medical ambulance aircraft near the capital, Delhi, which killed 10 people.
The plane crashed on Wednesday night into a residential area in Faridabad town in the northern state of Haryana.
The dead included seven people on board the aircraft and three women who were in the house on which the plane fell.
The craft was flying a critically ill patient from the state of Bihar to a hospital in Delhi.
Reports said a team of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was at the site of the crash, looking through the wreckage of the plane.
A senior DGCA official said the plane was in contact with the air traffic control and on the radar before suddenly vanishing and losing touch, news agency Press Trust of India reported.
Minutes before landing in Delhi, the plane broke into two and caught fire, burning parts of the house on which it fell.
Mangled remains of the aircraft lay strewn at the site of the crash and a damaged propeller was also seen.
"When the plane crashed, massive fire erupted and the public started running for the rescue of the victims," news agency Reuters quoted Sanjay Kumar, an eyewitness, as saying.
Police said two people who were injured in the crash were admitted to hospital.
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US pulls diplomats out of Yemen
Fighting has raged in Sanaa for several days as tribal forces fight government troops The US has ordered all its non-essential diplomats and family members of embassy staff to leave Yemen as fighting there escalates.
At least 44 people have been killed since Monday in clashes between tribal fighters and government troops.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh has again said he will not step down and leave Yemen, despite mounting protests.
He has so far refused to sign a transition deal that would see him resign in favour of a unity government.
The US State Department has also warned Americans against travelling to Yemen.
"The security threat level in Yemen is extremely high due to terrorist activities and civil unrest. There is ongoing civil unrest throughout the country and large-scale protests in major cities," the State Department said.
"The Department of State has ordered all eligible family members of US government employees as well as certain non-emergency personnel to depart Yemen," the travel warning said.
Yemen's Ahmar familySheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar is the overall leader of the Hashid tribal confederation, one of the two main tribal groupings in YemenHis father Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar - who died in 2007 - founded the Islamist Islah opposition partySheikh Sadeq's brother Hamid al-Ahmar is a prominent businessman and leading member of Islah. He has repeatedly called for Mr Saleh's resignationAnother brother, Sheikh Hussein bin Abdullah al-Ahmar, resigned from President Saleh's Governing People's Council on 28 February over the shootings of protestersLike President Saleh, the Ahmars are from the Zaidi branch of Shia Islam, whereas most Yemenis are Sunni Shaf'istsIn pictures: Boiling point
"US citizens currently in Yemen should depart while commercial transportation is available," it said.
Fighters from a powerful tribal group, the Hashid, have reportedly taken control of several public buildings in the capital Sanaa after several days of fighting government troops.
Sanaa's airport is reportedly shut after tribal fighters opposed to President Saleh clashed with government forces.
Witnesses say hundreds of people are fleeing the violence in the capital.
The clashes began on Monday after forces loyal to President Saleh moved against the compound of Hashid leader Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar.
Mr Saleh refuses to stand down, despite growing international pressure.
He has warned that Yemen could descend into civil war.
On Wednesday, US President Barack Obama said Mr Saleh should "move immediately on his commitment to transfer power".
The BBC's Wendy Urquhart looks at the cause of the recent clashes
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was "deeply troubled" by the violence and called on all sides to find a peaceful solution.
But Mr Saleh remained defiant in a statement read by his spokesman on Wednesday.
"I will not leave power and I will not leave Yemen," the spokesman, Ahmed al-Soufi, quoted the president as saying.
The president said he was still prepared to sign a transition deal "within a national dialogue and a clear mechanism".
The deal Mr Saleh has so far refused to sign, which was presented by the Gulf Co-operation Council, calls for him to step down within a month after 33 years in office and hand over power to a unity government.
It would also give the president immunity from prosecution.
Mr Saleh has previously said he would only sign in the presence of opposition leaders.
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Risky business
Refusing to sell his dairy firm ended in legal action and jail for its owner Doing business in Russia is notoriously difficult.
A combination of excessive bureaucracy and corrupt officials makes it a hazardous enterprise.
For example, producing milk is fairly straightforward in most parts of the world.
But it landed Dmitry Malov in jail.
Mr Malov owns a dairy business called Agromol in Kostroma, some 300km (480 miles) from Moscow.
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Special Report: Extreme World World Have Your Say asks: Have we got the subjects right?He started out by buying a milk-packaging facility. Then he bought two old Soviet dairy farms. He poured his life savings into them, and took out a bank loan to modernise them. He soon had a thriving business.
By 2009 it was delivering high-quality milk, butter, and other dairy produce across the region, even as far as Moscow.
The first sign that his investment was going to turn sour was when he had a visit from some men who turned out to be officers from the FSB, Russia's interior security service.
Mr Malov refused.
The FSB officers threatened that if he did not sell he would end up in prison.
Mr Malov's wife, Tatiana, believes the officers were paid, perhaps by someone involved in property development, as the company's small factory is on a prime city-centre plot.
Mr Malov went on refusing to sell the company. Then, soon afterwards, he was charged with fraud.
He was accused of not using his bank loan for the purpose given in the application.
Mr Malov's children thinks he is on a business trip Mr Malov fought the charge, believing right up until the day of the verdict that he would be cleared.
But he was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison, just as the FSB officers had threatened.
"I knew that there was a criminal investigation and that he was having to attend court," says Mrs Malov.
"But I never believed it would get to this stage. They called me from the court. They handed him the phone and he said, 'I am being sent to prison'."
Business Solidarity, an organisation that works to protect small businessmen, estimates that one in six Russian entrepreneurs is in jail, and that one in three prisoners in Russia is a businessman.
Two of Dmitry Malov's employees were also given prison sentences, but theirs were suspended.
His finance director, Diana Grishina, is one of them.
She is trying to keep the business going in his absence.
Ms Grishina is recovering from brain surgery for a problem that she believes was made worse by the stress.
"If law enforcement didn't keep getting in the way of small business, things would be much better," she says.
"They should be fighting terrorism, not us. We are in the business of creating things, not destroying them. And we are not harming anyone."
Of course, not all businessmen end up in jail, but there is a reason for that, according to Alexander Brechalov, of the Organisation of Small and Medium Businesses.
He is not happy about it, but he is realistic.
"Most entrepreneurs - between 60% and 80% - are quite relaxed about the situation," he says.
"They share their profits with the police and people from the tax authorities. They don't complain about the difficulties of doing business. They just pay bribes to everybody."
Agromol is still trading and still employs 300 people, but the future of the company is in jeopardy without its owner and driving force.
Mr Malov is being kept in the local jail in Kostroma pending the outcome of his appeal.
Only a few hundred metres away at their small flat, Mrs Malov has not told their two children where their father is.
They think that he is on a business trip.
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