1.   He called her at the newspaper, threatening to kill her and rape her son if she wrote about him in the Sunday Independent.

2.   An Egyptian doctor who was flogged in Saudi Arabia after complaining his son was raped by a school administrator has returned home to Cairo, his family said Friday.

3.   The Saudi kingdom, which is governed by sharia or Islamic law, has said the flogged doctor had no basis for accusing the principal of raping his son.

4.   Kamel Mohammed Khalifa was sentenced to be lashed for defamation after saying his seven-year-old son had been raped.

5.   Last month the Egyptian press denounced Riyadh for flogging an Egyptian doctor who had accused a Saudi school principal of raping his son.

6.   Saudi Arabia said earlier that the flogged doctor had no basis for accusing the principal of raping his son.

7.   The outcry over the public flogging of an Egyptian doctor in Saudi Arabia who accused a teacher of raping his son has strained relations between Cairo and Riyadh.