 | Rapist Recruited Online
A man in the US has used the online advertising website Craigslist to recruit another man to rape his wife, police said. |
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The 25 year old man’s name has not yet been released in order to protect the identity of his wife, who called the police early on Sunday morning and said that a man had raped her in the bedroom of their home in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
Police have said that the victim’s husband was in the bedroom at the time of the attack, and their two young children were also in the house, but were unaware of what was happening.
Using Craigslist, the husband sought a man to come to his home and have sex with his wife using 'scare tactics,' without the wife’s knowledge and consent, police said.
The identity of the attacker is still being investigated by police and it is still not known if the husband paid him to do it.
Police began to suspect the husband after his story didn’t fit together and there was no sign of a break in at the house. The woman was not seriously injured in the attack and was released from hospital following treatment.
Craigslist has been criticized recently for its 'erotic services' section, which the website agreed to close down last month after a Boston medical student, dubbed 'the Craigslist Killer,' was charged with the murder of a woman he met on the site.
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 | Two deaths in Kilkenny Rivers
Two people have drowned in separate incidents in River Barrow and River Nore in Co. Kilkenny. |
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The body of a 24-year-old woman was taken from the River Nore in Kilkenny city this morning.
Emergency services and the Kilkenny sub-aqua club had been searching for the woman after she failed to return from a swim last night at 11.30pm
Her body was found close to Green's Bridge in the city.
Elsewhere, a 22-year-old man drowned in the River Barrow in Co Kilkenny yesterday evening.
The man, who is from New Ross, was taken from the River Barrow in Graiguenamanagh around 6.30pm yesterday evening.
It is understood he was swimming near a diving board in the town when he got into difficulty and was pulled under the water by strong currents.
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 | Exam blunder causes postponement
The State Examinations Commission has been forced to postpone the Leaving Cert English Paper 2 exam for ordinary level and higher level students after an inadvertent leak yesterday. |
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The mistake happened yesterday at St Oliver's Community College in Drogheda, Co Louth, when a superintendent mistakenly handed out the English Paper 2 exam to higher level students instead of the correct English Paper 1.
The incorrect paper was quickly withdrawn, but details of the questions were still spread from student to student via text message.
The State Examinations Commission has said that it had not been informed of the mistake by the Superintendent, but only heard what had happened after parents contacted the principal of the school yesterday afternoon.
The SEC also confirmed that the superintendent had been suspended.
The National Parents' Council has expressed anger at the forced postponement during the Exam period.
The commission decided to cancel today's exam and reschedule a contingency paper for 9.30am on Saturday morning.
Minister for Education Batt O'Keeffe has expressed regret that the exam had to be postponed but said the decision had been made in the best interests of all students.
The last time an exam leak of this nature occurred was in 1969.
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 | Obama calls for New Beginning
Barack Obama has called for a 'new beginning between the US and Muslims' today in a keynote speech delivered at Cairo University. He declared that the 'cycle of suspicion and discord' must end. |
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Mr Obama said: 'I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect.'
However, he did acknowledge that 'no single speech can eradicate years of mistrust' but urged both sides to 'say openly the things we hold in our hearts and that too often are said only behind closed doors'.
He cited the Koran as saying: 'Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.'
Mr Obama declared that the US and Islam were not enemies, 'and I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the US to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear,' he said.
However, he also said that the perceptions of America in the Muslim world also needs to change
'Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire.'
On the key issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Mr Obama said 'there can be no progress towards peace without a halt to such construction'.
Israel is resisting calls to freeze all settlement-building but Palestinian leaders have said there can be no progress towards peace without a halt.
Mr. Obama declared that, 'Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong.'
But he also said the 'situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable'.
'Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's,' Mr Obama said.
Mr Obama finished off the address by saying he was firm in the belief that 'the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.'
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 | Taoiseach meets CORI
The Taoiseach has met the religious orders criticized in the Ryan report today at Government Buildings. |
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This meeting follows the discussions that the Taioseach held last night with the victims of the abuse, whom he told would be kept updated on today’s proceedings.
Additional contributions to the State compensation scheme for abuse survivors are thought to have been top of the agenda.
Senior CORI figures have stated publicly that there is a need for an enhanced contribution to the redress scheme from the religious orders.
Chief Whip Pat Carey said this morning that he did not think there was a major discrepancy between his view of State and religious equally sharing the financial cost of the scheme and the view of Minister for Education Batt O'Keeffe
Last night, the Minister O'Keeffe declined to put a figure on the proportion of compensation the religious orders should shoulder.
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