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 city of Amsterdam has developed teaching material warning children against the politics of Geert Wilders, newspaper De Telegraaf yesterday reported. Wilders calls the campaign “sickening”. The newspaper quoted from a letter that the city council has sent to three hundred primary and secondary schools in Amsterdam. Primary school heads believe that the letter is intended to anticipate... 

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...