Extra benefits: Muslim men with multiple wives can claim more for income support Husbands living in a “harem” with multiple wives have been cleared to claim state benefits for all their different partners. A Muslim man with four spouses – which is permitted under Islamic law – could receive £10,000 a year in income support alone. He could also be entitled to more generous housing... 

The outspoken culture minister, Kim Howells, last night found himself at the centre of a race row after claiming that the time had come to stand up to the “idiots” of rap culture. Mr Howells, who previously attacked exhibits at the Turner Prize show as “cold, mechanical conceptual bullshit”, launched into an extraordinary attack on Rblack British music hours after the police... 

The guidelines say that the word “parents” must replace “mum and dad”, and that teachers should educate pupils about civil partnerships and gay adoption rights. The British government is telling teachers to avoid using the words “mum and dad” as part of an effort to cut down on “homophobia” and increase acceptance of “gay families.” The... 

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A schoolgirl was raped by a gang who poured caustic soda over her body to destroy DNA evidence. The 16-year-old was left fighting for life with terrible burns from the drain-clearing chemical. She was under heavy sedation at a specialist burns unit last night as sickened police called the attack by five youths a new low. The gang beat the teenager before taking turns to rape her in an empty house... 

A teenage bride was beaten to death by her husband while her in-laws who shared the same house ignored her sickening ordeal, a court heard yesterday. Sabia Rani, 19, was repeatedly attacked over a three-week period, suffering bruising over 90% of her body and ‘catastrophic’ injuries usually only seen in car crash victims. The ‘vulnerable’ teenager, who had arrived five months... 

Accompanied by body-armor vested London police officers, Lambeth Senior Trading Standards Officer Ray Bouch walks into a beauty and cosmetics shop on Brixton’s Electric Avenue. Bouch works for the London borough’s Public Protection Unit, tasked with keeping everything from faulty condoms to illicit vodka off the streets. Today, he’s in search of contraband cosmetics: illegal skin... 

Paper author Sir David Calvert-Smith, QC Scotland Yard has spent almost £450 million on promoting ‘equality and diversity’ in the past three years. In the past year alone £187 million – six per cent of the Met budget – went on ‘equalities-related expenditure’. This included recruitment, training and research within minority communities, as well as crime fighting... 

The last natural blondes will die out within 200 years, scientists believe. A study by experts in Germany suggests people with blonde hair are an endangered species and will become extinct by 2202. Researchers predict the last truly natural blonde will be born in Finland – the country with the highest proportion of blondes. But they say too few people now carry the gene for blondes to last beyond... 

Corby town is 93.7% white A town is being stripped of scores of public sector jobs because its residents are “too white and British”. The Prison Service is relocating the posts to a nearby city where there are more ethnic minorities. The incredible decision, which could lead to an investigation by the Commission for Racial Equality, was disclosed yesterday in a leaked official letter. It... 

Could they really just be this way naturally? Disruptive and aggressive children are often born that way, scientists claim. A study has found that behavioural problems are imprinted in a child’s DNA. The findings overturn conventional thinking on the nature versus nurture debate. In recent years, the prevailing view has been that the environment in which children are brought up dictates how they...