The first murder of which he was suspected was in 1997, but the pace has picked up. He has criminal records in California, Florida and New Mexico on weapons and burglary charges. “I wish I could tell you,” said Mr Clark.Resendez-Ramirez, 38, comes from Puebla in Mexico. “He’s demonstrated he can use almost any kind [...]

There is a man whose daughter was taken to hospital yesterday and he is not allowed to visit. “I feared for my family, but they stopped just short of us.”Now Djakovica is at peace, and both the doctor and the official are reacting according to type. From the hospital, as the town waited for the [...]

Although the woman was subsequently released, Ms Seisay was imprisoned.She had met her travelling companion during a weekend in Bonn with her husband’scousin, Umaru Wurie, the Sierra Leonean ambassador to Germany.Ms Seisay’s husband, Habib Tejan, said his wife had been imprisoned solely on the basis of “supposition, without a single scrap of evidence”.He described her [...]

He left my mother and me when I was three, and all I remember of him is a tattoo of a mermaid on his shoulder and a smell of Bruno pipe tobacco.Roberts: Mermaid? Bruno? Good God! May I ask you a very personal question, young man? Was your mother called Iris?Counsel: Yes, she was. But [...]

Politicians, pundits and social workers are all consumed with the collapse of the family. This week the writer Francis Fukuyama suggested in his book The Great Disruption that the natural order needed to be reinstated in the world, commanding women to go back to being happy little kitchen slaves. Then, unexpectedly, the Lord Chancellor shelved [...]

The Prime Minister is said to have read the draft in London with mounting dismay, remarking that he could have “told them” it would be a non-starter with the Unionists.But the real explanation is that the attack on Ms Mowlam is that it was of a piece with the rest of Mr Trimble’s tough talking [...]

Rover has proved time and again to be a triumph of hope over experience. BMW is thus left clinging to the receding hope that Britain will enter the euro early or that the great car-buying public will change the habit of a lifetime. Even if it beats all expectations, Rover is still hamstrung by a [...]

Ocalan blames Turkish repression
THE KURDISH rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan for the first time sought to blame Turkish repression for the 14-year armed uprising he led, when he made his final statement to a Turkish court yesterday. Their families, if they have families, are too poor to send them to school.They look happy enough [...]

Oldest college is Whitelands, once in Chelsea and has historic links with the Victorian art critic, John Ruskin.
Address: Two south-west London campuses, two miles apart: Whitelands in West Hill, Putney; the rest in Roehampton.Ambience: Main Roehampton Lane campus’s purpose-built buildings and beautiful Georgian house set in landscaped grounds with rose garden, ornamental lakes and follies. [...]