International		Cuttings
The strange death of Shehla Masood   SHEHLA Masood had a secret. She was about to break her silence, exposing a nest of corruption and rocking the political establishment to its core. Then Sheila Masood was murdered.
India	Iraq	Afghanistan	Sri Lanka
Featured		Asia
Heartache for India's new rich as brutal kidnappers target their children   The last picture that Yash Lakhotia's family have of him was taken at the shopping mall, the most middle-class of Indian destinations. It shows him smiling, with his arm around his big sister, Neha. Both are wearing smart western clothes, looking the epitome of the country's new, upwardly mobile generation. But it was a look that cost Yash his life. Two days after the photograph was taken, a car drew up outside the seven-year-old's school as he was leaving. Yash must have assumed that the man inside had been sent by his father to collect him. He got in, the door closed, and he was gone.			Shame of the human safaris   “DANCE,” the policeman says. The girls, naked from the waist up, jiggle for him. The camera, held by a tourist, pans round to another young woman, naked but for a bag of some sort of yellow grain, held awkwardly in front of her groin. “Dance for me,” the policeman commands.
.		Africa
Last days of the tiger   WHEN he found the bull the tiger had killed, Mangya Moghiya set to work quickly. The wily old poacher knew the tiger would be back soon, and he wished to stack the odds in his favour.			Monsoon paid workers just 12p an hour, High Street giant in child labour storm   FASHION chain Monsoon - named Britain's most ethical trader - is using Third World suppliers who paid workers just 12p an hour, we can reveal. A News of the World / Observer investigation reveals some Indian and Chinese factories making garments for the company - slogan "Living our values and ethics since 1973" - employing children and one even using kids under nine.
.		Europe
Suicide and suffering grip Europe's nation of orphans   THE HEADMASTER glanced around the classroom. "Hands up, those of you with parents who are working abroad,'' he told them. A forest of arms shot up; out of a class of 21 pupils at the school in Liteni in northern Romania, only three children kept their hands on the desks.			Will UK’s £1billion aid get to the poor of India... or corrupt politicians?   MUCH of Britain's promised £1billion aid to India will be administered through a political system mired in corruption, a Sun investigation has discovered.
.		Middle East
Caught in the middle as Amarah explodes   "I want this moving now, now, now," he screamed, and there was another burst of gunfire overhead. Then they were there, the Warriors, with their 30mm cannon and chain guns, appearing over the crest of the bridge, just as the cavalry should.			Red hackles rise as the Black Watch stride out   Tam o'shanter on his head, pistol in his belt, the commanding officer of the Black Watch is striding ahead through the crowded market place in the centre of the town of Az Zubayr.
.		Americas
. They wait clutching cards they hope will be their bus ticket to escape from this terrible place   Koubra Hassabou watches the buses go; she and her family had packed their things away, but there was no place for them today. She sits in the sand, her face blank. "What are we to do?" she asks. "If we had donkeys we could go ourselves but we have no donkeys. We put a lot of luggage on our donkeys and they died here."			Apple's Chinese workers treated 'inhumanely, like machines' An investigation into the conditions of Chinese workers has revealed the shocking human cost of producing the must-have Apple iPhones and iPads that are now ubiquitous in the west.
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