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The husband of an Indian dentist who died after being refused an abortion at an Irish hospital today hit out at her 'horrendous, barbaric and inhuman' treatment. An inquest jury ruled that Savita Halappanavar's death in October last year was by medical misadventure, and set out a string of recommendations to prevent a repeat of the tragedy. Speaking after the hearing, her widower Praveen said that University Hospital Galway had left her to die, and did nothing to help her until after she had miscarried their baby. 'It was too late,' he said today - the couple's fifth wedding anniversary. 'The care she received was in no way different to staying at home. 'Medicine is all about preventing the natural history of the disease and improving the patient's life and health and look what they did. She was just left there to die. 'We were always kept in the dark. If Savita would have known her life was at risk she would have jumped off the bed, straight to

Police have arrested Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf at his home where he had holed up following a dramatic escape from court to avoid detention, it emerged today. Musharraf fled Islamabad High Court in a speeding vehicle yesterday after a judge rejected his bail and ordered his arrest in connection with a case involving his decision to fire senior judges while in power. It was a new low in Musharraf's troubled return from self-imposed exile last month to make a political comeback in the upcoming parliamentary election. Police say they arrested Musharraf overnight and presented him before a judge at Islamabad District Court this morning. Scroll down for video Drama: Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf fled an Islamabad courthouse yesterday to avoid arrest, but has now been held by police at his home The former President fled at such a speed yesterday, one of his security detail was left clinging to the outside off the car as it sped off Lo

A bitter ex-boyfriend posted topless pictures of his former lover online as punishment when she started a new relationship. James Aldous, 22, let himself into Cassie Fearnley’s house while she was sleeping and copied 20 pictures of the university student posing topless and in her underwear which were saved on her laptop computer. He then uploaded the intimate pictures to websites to humiliate her. Revenge plot: James Aldous, right, admitted posting intimate pictures of his ex-girlfriend Cassie Fearnley, 22, left, on the internet after taking them from her laptop. This is not one of the images posted online by Aldous When Miss Fearnley, also 22, found out about the plot, she confronted Aldous and he deleted the images. But they had already started to circulate on the internet and had spread to many more websites. More... 'Don't leave me': 'Possessive' Polish boyfriend accused of killing British graduate girlfriend, 23, feared she would leave him in months

The FBI revealed on Friday that they had interviewed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011, after a foreign government alerted officials that he had possible ties to extremists. Federal officials vetted Tamerlan Tsarnaev but their probe not produce any 'derogatory' information and the matter was put 'to bed,' a U.S. law enforcement source said. The revelation is the first indication that Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, were known to U.S. security officials prior to Monday's bombings, U.S. authorities said. Suspect: Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left in 2010) was identified by the FBI as a main suspect (right in surveillance video on Monday) in the Boston Marathon bombings. He was killed by police on Friday Traditional values: While appearing like an all-American 20-something man, Tamerlan said in an earlier interview that he is a devout Muslim who does not drink and upholds traditional values The government that asked for t

Officials in Boston announced on Friday night that the city's security lockdown has been lifted but urged residents to exercise extreme caution since the second bombing suspect remains on the loose. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said the city's mass transit service is resuming, after it was suspended for most of the day while police launched a manhunt for the surviving marathon bomb suspect, 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The city's commuter rail service is expected to resume on Saturday. 'We can return to living our lives,' Gov. Patrick said at a press conference late Friday but urged Bostonians, 'to remain vigilant. If you are out, continue to be alert to suspicious activity.' Scroll down for video Lifted: Governor Deval Patrick said on Friday night that the security lockdown on the Boston area has been lifted even as the search continues for the second bombing suspect Ghost town: Boston's normally busy streets were completely empty a

One night in 1938, a young Colin Davis elbowed his way into the living room of the modest terraced home that he shared with his mother, father, and six siblings, and placed a record on the turntable of the family’s battered wind-up gramophone. Turning up the volume, and ignoring the scratchy sound quality, he quickly became lost in ‘the power, the tenderness, the beauty [and] the ferocity’ of the opening passages of Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony. ‘It was a revelation,’ Davis recalled years later. ‘I had never heard so much energy concentrated into half an hour.’ From that day onwards, the 11-year-old schoolboy had a single aim in life. ‘I wanted to be a musician and I wanted to be a conductor,’ he said, jokingly describing it as ‘the most irrational decision that I have ever made’. So began a journey of extraordinary endeavour which finally came to an end last Sunday, after bringing Davis international acclaim, along with two Grammy Awards and a knighthood. Sir Colin died on April 14, a