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People all over the world have expressed horror at Saudi Arabia's brutal treatment of the blogger Raif Badawi.
He said he was joining the rebels because of the "brutal" crackdown on dissent that has claimed the lives of thousands of Syrians.
As Syria's civil war has intensified, thousands of children have died in brutal attacks and many more have been injured, traumatised or forced to flee their homes.
It is a profound, complex letter, as brutal as it is tender, as Catholic as it is reformed, as conservative as it is radical.
Behind the image, however, lies a very modern template for British sporting success – a combination of talent, brutal work ethic and the appliance of scientific method to performance that underpinned every triumph of the Olympic summer.
Ireland has just passed one of the most brutal, some would say most important, budgets in its history as an independent state.
A "callous and brutal" father who murdered his baby daughter by repeatedly biting, punching and shaking her has been jailed for life with a minimum of 22 years.
It's an awful, brutal way of controlling females that carries significant health risks and it needs to end.
The MP for Bromsgrove, who went to school with one of Sutcliffe's victims, called Mr Clarke's decision "grossly insensitive to the many families in West Yorkshire who are still grieving over the brutal deaths of their loved ones at the hands of this animal".
We must always remember that this brutal and tragic war laid the hand of death on every country in Europe.
