The parents of missing Madeleine McCann on Wednesday accepted an apology and more than $1 million in damages over tabloid newspaper stories suggesting they had caused their daughter's death.
Madeleine vanished May 3 _ a few days before her 4th birthday _ from a hotel room during a family vacation in Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve region.
Kate and Gerry McCann said Wednesday that Express Newspapers had agreed to pay the equivalent of $1.1 million. The couple's lawyer said the money would go into a fund they have set up to help find their daughter.
Two of the group's newspapers ran front-page apologies Wednesday for suggesting the couple were …
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