11.   The feuding families are longtime political rivals, but the bad blood boiled over during the intefadeh, the seven-year Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule.

12.   He runs a charity group which reconciles feuding families.

13.   A peasant was beaten to death following the christening of his son in a village in northern Shandong province where two feuding families live, a newspaper reported.

14.   Five people were killed and three injured in revenge killings between feuding families in south Egypt on Thursday, the government daily Al-Akhbar reported.