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| Dark tale of love and murder in Pakistan's rural heartland | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik MOZA SIAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani man whose pregnant wife was bludgeoned to death by angry family members who did not approve of the marriage fondly recalled a brief life together with the woman he fell in love with at first sight. Farzana Iqbal, 25, was murdered by a group of assailants including her father on Tuesday, witnesses and police said, because she fell in love with and married Muhammed Iqbal in January instead of a cousin they had selected for her. And she was the best wife anyone could ask for," Iqbal, 45, told Reuters in his mud-brick home in the village of Moza Sial in central Pakistan, 240 km (150 miles) west of Lahore. It was my duty to save her and I let her down." The dark tale of love, betrayal and murder has stunned people around the world, with the United Nations condemning Farzana's killing and a major international newspaper running a Reuters photograph of the grisly aftermath of the attack on its front page.
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| Capital concerns hit BNP Paribas on report of $10 billion U.S. fine | |  By Alexandre Boksenbaum-Granier and Lionel Laurent PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Fears that a looming U.S. fine on BNP Paribas could be big enough to force it to raise capital and restrict its dividends hit France's biggest bank on Friday, driving its shares sharply lower. France's central bank said it was following the case "with the utmost attention" after a report in the Wall Street Journal said the U.S. Justice Department wanted $10 billion from the bank - double the amount previously reported and more than 20 percent more than BNP's 2013 pretax income. BNP declined to comment on the report.
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| Malaysian teenager gang-raped by 38 men - media | | | By Trinna Leong KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police have detained 13 men and are looking for other suspects following allegations that a 15-year-old girl was raped by 38 men in an abandoned hut, media said on Friday. Astro Awani television and and The Star daily reported that the assault took place in the northern state of Kelantan on May 20 when the girl met a girlfriend and was lured to an empty hut reported to be a local drug haunt. State and federal police officers either declined comment or could not be immediately reached. Media accounts, quoting information from district police chief Azham Otham, said 38 men were involved. |
| China decries call in U.S. to name street after jailed Tiananmen dissident | | | China on Friday criticised a group of U.S. lawmakers for calling for a Washington street near the Chinese embassy to be named after imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, behaviour it said was "provocative" and "ignorant". Thirteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives asked Mayor Vincent Gray in a letter to rename part of International Place NW after the 2010 Nobel recipient, saying it would bring "renewed international attention to Chinese human rights violations", the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Liu, 58, a veteran dissident involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests that were crushed by the army, was jailed for 11 years in 2009 on subversion charges for organising a petition urging an end to one-party rule. "What kind of person is Liu Xiaobo? |
| Home minister seeks report on grisly rape, hanging of teens in Uttar Pradesh | |  By Sharat Pradhan LUCKNOW (Reuters) - New Home Minister Rajnath Singh weighed in on Friday in a grisly case in which two teenage girls were raped and hanged from a tree this week in Uttar Pradesh, as public anger and political controversy over the attack gain momentum. The case is one of the first challenges for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his four-day-old government. It highlights the ongoing struggle to stem sexual violence in India, where a string of high-profile rapes has sparked nationwide protests and international criticism. Singh asked the Uttar Pradesh government to submit a report on the attack, a ministry spokesman said.
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| Turkish telecoms watchdog says waiting on ruling to unblock YouTube | |  Turkish telecoms watchdog BTK said on Friday it had not yet received a ruling by Turkey's top court ordering the removal of a two-month block on video-sharing website YouTube. The Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that a block on access to YouTube imposed by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government was a violation of rights, but nearly 24 hours after the ruling was announced the video-sharing site remained inaccessible to most Turks. The court said on Thursday that it has not yet written its full report on the issue and a source at BTK told Reuters on Friday it was not clear when the decision would arrive. This is the second time that the Constitutional Court has overturned a media ban imposed by the government.
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| Second diver dies in Korea ferry search as fugitive businessman's car found | |  A diver searching for bodies in a sunken ferry died on Friday after an accident, the coast guard said, as a car believed to be used by a fugitive businessman linked to the ship was reported found. The diver was pulled from the water where he was involved in the cutting open of the hull in the hope of reaching some of 16 people missing 45 days after the vessel sank, a coast guard official said.
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| EXCLUSIVE - Security enthusiasts may revive encryption tool after mystery shutdown | |  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A team of security experts may seek to restore and improve a popular computer encryption system after its developers mysteriously shut it down, claiming "unfixed security issues," a leader of the effort told Reuters on Thursday. TrueCrypt, one of a number of programs that encrypt all of a user's hard drive, had gained popularity after fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden praised it and law enforcement officials complained of their inability to crack it. TrueCrypt had passed the earliest testing, so it shocked many technologists Wednesday when the TrueCrypt website announced it would discontinue encryption support and urged users to move to rival software. "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues," the notice said."You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images." Speculation has mounted over the cause of the reversal, with some suggesting that the developers had tired of the decade-long project and others guessing that U.S. authorities had demanded a back-door key from the programmers, as happened with anonymous email provider Lavabit.
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