Dr Goodall was a world-leading expert on chimpanzees and a renowned conservationist. 

​Dr Goodall was a world-leading expert on chimpanzees and a renowned conservationist.  

After a 43-year legal battle, the Allahabad High Court convicted an elderly man and an accomplice for strangling his wife in 1982. Overturning a 1984 acquittal, Awadhesh Kumar and Mata Prasad received life imprisonment for murder, masked as a ghost exorcism. The court condemned this shocking case of blind faith, also imposing fines and three-year sentences for destroying evidence.

Israeli naval forces on Wednesday intercepted a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, ending its latest bid to break an Israeli blockade of the war-battered Palestinian territory.