Mohamed Al Fayed: How culture of fear at Harrods protected a predator
“I am walking around feeling terrified of somebody who is dead,” explains Gemma, who has been reliving the moment when she says Mohamed Al Fayed raped her. “He just had that power – I am petrified of someone who is no longer alive”. She is among more than 20 women who told us the former Harrods owner sexually assaulted or raped them while they worked at the luxury London department store. Many of them describe being imprisoned by a similar sense of fear; it is what kept them from coming forward for so many years.
Paratroopers mark 80 years since Operation Market Garden
Eighty years after hundreds of allied soldiers parachuted from military aircraft into Nazi-occupied Netherlands as part of a daring World War Two offensive, their modern equivalents will on Saturday repeat the jump in commemoration. In an airborne spectacular, 700 paratroopers from eight Nato nations - including the Netherlands, Germany, UK and US - will parachute from 12 aircraft.
Hezbollah device explosions: The unanswered questions
After thousands of pagers and radio devices exploded in two separate incidents in Lebanon - injuring thousands of people and killing at least 37 - details are still being pieced together as to how such an operation was carried out. Lebanon and Hezbollah, whose members and communication systems were targeted, have blamed Israel – though Israel is yet to comment. The BBC has followed a trail from Taiwan, to Japan, Hungary, Israel and back to Lebanon. Here are the unanswered questions.
Surgeon 'became robotic' to treat sheer volume of wounded Lebanese
A Lebanese surgeon has described how the sheer volume of severe wounds from two days of exploding device attacks forced him to act "robotic" just to be able to keep working. Surgeon Elias Jaradeh said he treated women and children but most of the patients he saw were young men. The surgeon said a large proportion were “severely injured” and many had lost the sight in both eyes.