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Security forces in Cambodia have killed a teenage girl during a clash with villagers armed with axes and crossbows in the latest of a series of violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development. Reports said that during a clash between up to 400 soldiers and police and villagers in Kratie province in the east [...]

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Bronx high school teacher Charles Best found that the resources for his classroom were severely lacking. He and his fellow teachers bought pencils and copy paper out-of-pocket, and spent much of their time together discussing the ways they wished they could engage their students if they had the extra funding. “The resources our students needed [...]

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Lady Gaga will have to cancel her sold-out show in Indonesia following protests by Islamic hard-liners and conservative lawmakers, who said her sexy clothes and dance moves will corrupt young people. National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar, responding to the pressure, said today that the permit for her 3 June “Born This Way Ball” concert [...]

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A young Ugandan boy is fighting for his life after his legs mysteriously swelled up to ‘elephant size’ and he contracted a potentially deadly flesh-eating infection. Vincent Oketch, 10, is bed bound, unable to walk and forced to wear girl’s dresses and skirts because he cannot fit into shorts or trousers due to the condition. [...]

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A mother-of-four who killed her children and then herself early on Tuesday morning said she wanted to be cremated with them, in a harrowing text message sent to a friend hours earlier. Sheriff’s deputies in Brevard County, Florida said 33-year-old Tanya Thomas shot her four children, who ranged in age from 12 to 17. They [...]

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A mother-of-two is recovering after being trapped in her wrecked van for almost three days and surviving on cans of soda and rainwater. Veronica McFoy lost control of her vehicle on a rural road in West Virginia last Monday. The 41-year-old’s car went careering over a 30-foot embankment and landed in an overgrown area not [...]

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From opera at La Scala to football at the San Siro stadium, from the catwalks of fashion week to the soaring architecture of the cathedral, Milan is crowded with Italian icons. Which makes it even more of a cultural earthquake that one of Italy’s leading universities – the Politecnico di Milano – is going to [...]

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The global mortality rate for women giving birth has fallen by half over the past two decades, a UN report released today said. While there has been considerable progress, more work remains because a woman dies of pregnancy-related complications every two minutes, the report said. The report from the World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s [...]

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Aishwarya Rai is no stranger to Cannes. The Bollywood actor and former Miss World has attended the film festival 10 times, but her appearance on the red carpet next week is set to be her most talked about. The cause of a controversy raging in India lies not with her latest film – Rai is [...]

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Normally, it’s the teachers telling their easily-distractible students to concentrate and be serious. But at Abby Kelly Foster High School, the teachers are the ones who are the class clowns. Several of the teachers at the Massachusetts charter school agreed to dance in the background of the video as history teacher Mike Penny asked his [...]

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Terminally-ill Australian Shaun Wilson-Miller, 17, has become an internet sensation after accidentally posting a heartbreaking and inspirational farewell message to the world on YouTube. Shaun, who has been told by doctors he does not have long left to live after his body rejected a SECOND heart transplant, was only trying to post his tragic goodbye [...]

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Five family members were arrested after authorities found a one-year-old child and 58 dogs living in near squalor and surrounded by filth. Teresa Weldon, 48, from Springtown, Texas, claimed to run an animal rescue operation from her home and had as many as 200 dogs sent to her over the space of two years. However, [...]

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Tintin is experiencing new and exciting adventures these days. Not just in the cinema, but in Belgian courts as well. Bienvenu Mbuto Mondondo, a Congolese national studying in Brussels, filed suit to obtain an injunction against the continued publication, distribution and sale of Hergé’s comic book Tintin in the Congo (Tintin au Congo), as well [...]

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A married couple living in Spain masterminded the kidnap of a British boy by an armed gang in Pakistan, a court heard today. Four masked men wielding assault rifles and hand grenades seized Sahil Saeed, five, while he was visiting his grandmother’s home in Punjab, prosecutors said. Muhammed Zahid Saleem and his wife Monica Neruja [...]

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Disney are normally associated with talking animals, princes and princesses, and objects which have come to life with a tough of magic. Well, the magical wizards at Disneyland have made that last thing a reality, after unveiling a high-tech solution which can turn anything – from doorknobs to buckets of water – into interactive buttons. [...]

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When Maria Concetta Cacciola drank the bottle of acid that would kill her in August last year, one can only imagine what was going through her mind. The mother of three, 31, had effectively been imprisoned in the family home in the dreary town of Rosarno, in the southern Italian region of Calabria, and probably [...]

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Like most loving parents, Chris and Kathy Coker were anxious when their son Bradley embarked on his gap-year trip around the world. Even though they knew he was sensible, it was hard not to worry about what could go wrong. And so, the Cokers recall, they breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that [...]

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Mega-wealthy Chinese parents are paying out hundreds of thousands of pounds for their children to have lessons in the art of chit-chat – to help them get into Oxbridge. The families are doing their utmost, including paying out the huge sums to British ‘education consultants’ based in China in order to give their children the [...]

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He’s been married to his actress wife for seven years who recently gave birth to their third child. And this weekend, ahead of Mother’s Day, actor Ben Affleck paid tribute to Jennifer Garner and praised her for being a ‘world-class mum’. He took to his Facebook page yesterday to post a video of him speaking [...]

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Oversleeping or being late for the bus are both excuses that teachers across the world have to put up with from pupils who are late. But one primary school pupil in Chongqing, south west China had somewhat different reason last week for being delayed. This boy became stuck when he tried to squeeze his body [...]

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Japan’s people could become extinct in 1,000 years because of declining birth rates, academics say. The population of Japanese children aged up to 14, currently stands at 16.6million in the country but is shrinking at a rate of one every 100 seconds, researchers in Sendai said. They warned that at the current rate, Japan would [...]

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After a hard day’s bamboo munching, Yang Yang the giant panda was looking forward to a gentle swing possibly leading to a snooze. Her son Fu Hu had different ideas, of course. Just like a human youngster demanding attention, he waved frantically at his mother to show he wanted to join her in the rope [...]

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Once a month, usually on a Saturday, Kasiani Papadopoulou packs a bag with children’s presents and takes the bus from her one-bedroom flat in a dusty suburb of Athens up into the cool hills outside the Greek capital that overlook the sea. The 20-mile journey is an emotional one for her, but she would not [...]

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The child’s parents told ABC television network affiliate WPBF they believe they were targeted because they are of Middle Eastern descent and the mother wears a hijab. “We were put on display like a circus act because my wife wears a hijab,” the baby’s father told the network. An airline employee boarded the Newark, New Jersey-bound [...]

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Horrifying footage has emerged showing a Malaysian mother repeatedly hitting, kicking and her defenceless ten-month-old daughter. The distressing clip which is just over four minutes in duration has caused fury on the internet, with many users who watched the video labelling the mother as ‘sadistic’ and ‘not fit to be near children.’ A friend of [...]

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The case of a baby girl who was allegedly buried alive in the state of Uttar Pradesh has shocked many Indians, as the BBC’s Sanjoy Majumder reports. Inside a filthy paediatric ward at a government hospital in Meerut, a short drive from Delhi, two-month old Radhika lies quietly on a bed. Incredibly frail and weak, [...]

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Footage from a traffic camera broadcast on Chinese state television shows the child slipping out of the front door of the car and onto the road, narrowly missing the back wheel of the car.   The child falls into the path of a taxi following behind which manages to pull up just in time. via [...]

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The parents of murdered American teenager Trayvon Martin have called on British people to stop racially profiling each other during an emotionally charged visit to London in which they met with Stephen Lawrence’s mother Doreen. The remarkable meeting brought together two families on different sides of the Atlantic who both suffered the tragedy of having [...]

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The nine year old boy, called Gran, has become a celebrity in his town of Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province, after the blotch on his body was first publicised last month.   The family, which has been too poor to send Gran to school, have since been inundated with offers of help from patriotic [...]

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Lady Gaga admitted she was nervous filming a part for the 23rd season finale of The Simpsons, which celebrated its 500th episode in February. The Simpsons is the longest-running prime-time scripted programme on US TV and is contracted to run for another two seasons.   The episode entitled ‘Lisa Goes Gaga’ is being shown on 20th [...]

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The 16-year-old who has not been named for legal reasons, was camping with fellow 1st XV team-mates on the coast north of Cape Town when he was pulled out of his sleeping bag and set on by older boys for some kind of initiation ceremony. The incident, on March 17, was filmed on mobile phones [...]

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Shaukeen Mohammed, the father of a fourteen year old girl who had been kidnapped by a criminal in Uttar Pradesh two months ago, had sought the help of S. K Mathur, a deputy inspector of police to recover his daughter. Instead, DIG Mathur suggested his daughter had in fact eloped and said had it been one [...]

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A mother of two has told of how she breastfeeds her two sons who are aged three and five. Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, has appeared on the cover of Time magazine breastfeeding her three-year-old Aram as he stands on a small seat to reach her. The Los Angeles mother has spoken about how she applies [...]

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The Arizona Diamondbacks may have lost to the St Louis Cardinals on Monday night but the Aguirre family certainly won. The family let some 26,447 fans witness their heart-warming reunion, after dad Lt Col Paul Aguirre returned from an eight-month deployment in Afghanistan to surprise his children Jackson, 6, and Alanna, 5. Having attended every [...]

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Most deaths of young children around the world are from mainly preventable infectious causes, experts have said. A US team, writing in the Lancet, looked at mortality figures from 2010. They found two-thirds of the 7.6m children who died before their fifth birthday did so due to infectious causes – and pneumonia was found to [...]

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Her eyes wide with fear and pain, Théthé – who is haemorrhaging and has a fever – groans and pushes as she lies on a brown vinyl mattress, slick with blood and amniotic fluid, in one of the worst places in the world to be a mother (pdf). After a final push, a nurse holds [...]

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Adam Mayes, 35, shot himself in Union County, Mississippi, FBI Special Agent Joel Siskovic said. “The girls are safe. He is deceased,” he said. Authorities say Mayes killed Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her oldest daughter Adrienne Bain, 14, on April 27, the day they went missing from their Tennessee home, and their bodies were found [...]

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A popular Mormon ‘Mommy blogger’ who survived an horrific plane crash with 80 per cent burns to her body has spoken about the ordeal – and how she overcame it to give birth to her fifth child. Speaking on the Today show, Stephanie Nielson, who writes about motherhood on her blog the Nie Nie Dialogues, [...]

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Police in northern India have arrested a baby girl’s father and uncle for allegedly trying to bury her alive. The two-month-old baby’s father said he had been advised by a spiritual guru to bury her to help secure the good health of his next child, police allege. Baby Radhika has acute malnutrition and is receiving [...]

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It’s one thing to encourage your child to pursue their dreams, but sometimes encouragement comes at a price. A mother and daughter who live in Los Angeles told Anderson Cooper that moving to Hollywood so the young girl, Presley Cash, could become an actress has so far cost them over $160,000. Not only that but the [...]

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An eight-year-old boy slammed his mother’s BMW into reverse gear and backed the car into a neighbours front porch at 30 mph, causing $80,000 in damage to the house and $20,000 to the car. The accident took place in the Boston suburb of Dorchester around 8.30 a.m when the little boy was apparently allowed to [...]

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A man who moved from Yugoslavia to New York without even knowing English is now graduating with an honors degree from an Ivy league university. Gac Filipaj, 52, first moved to the United States in 1992 when his home country was in the midst of a massive civil war. Upon his move state-side, he started [...]

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A couple who had IVF treatment after struggling to conceive for years have advertised their 18 leftover embryos on Craigslist so they can donate them to others in need. Deb and Kevin McCrea had two boys after undergoing fertility treatment and a baby girl after In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) when they were left with 18 [...]

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These musical baby bears might seem ready to cut a rug. But the conga line of cubs is actually a tactic used for grooming. Video shot at a bear reservation shows the litter of 10 standing up on their hind legs and one by one filing in line to lick each other’s heads. A 50 [...]

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The third Wizarding World of Harry Potter is to be built at Universal Studios Japan, in Osaka, with work starting in the next few weeks and the park scheduled to open in late 2014, the operator of the park announced on Thursday.   Universal’s first wizarding attraction, in Orlando, Florida, has already attracted millions of [...]

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A toddler has died after being mauled by her grandparents’ dog and her grandmother was shot when she tried to rescue her. The 16-month-old was savaged in the back yard at a house in La Cruces and a neighbour fired a shot to try and kill the Pit Bull but instead hit the grandmother in [...]

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Underwater swimmer Hannah Fraser has been fascinated with mermaids since she was three years old. Hannah, 36, an Australian who now lives in LA, made her first mermaid tail at the age of nine, after seeing the film Splash with Daryl Hannah. Now she works as a model, actress and performer, swimming with whales, dolphins, [...]

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A Swiss father-of-three is being interviewed by police today after it emerged he was the mystery man seen driving from the camping ground with a girl who looked like Maddie McCann days after she vanished in 2007. Karsten Mayer, 41, is a German-speaking Swiss native who lives near the capital Bern whose own daughter was [...]

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With stiff limbs and gormless expressions they could be mistaken for Barbie dolls. But the female and male in these pictures aren’t plastic Mattel figures but real-life models. Vancouver-based photographer Hayden Wood used some Photoshop wizardry to transform the duo into versions of Barbie and Ken. Both Meagan Therese Squire and James Webb have had [...]

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A class of children sit revising for  make-or-break exams to get them into the college of their choice. It’s the sort of scene that could be seen in high schools across the world but for one important difference: The pupils have intravenous drips hanging over their desks. The image is taken from footage that claims [...]

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