Telegraph 17/3/10
A child gets a haircut at a barbershop in Huaibei, Anhui Province, China. It is believed to bring luck when one gets a haircut during Er Yue Er or Dragon Raises Head, which falls on March 17 this year…
Telegraph 17/3/10
The almost perfectly preserved brain of a medieval toddler who died 800 years ago is set to provide ground-breaking information into human thought processes.
Times 11/3/10
Japan’s gambling industry is expected to be an unlikely beneficiary of a national child subsidy scheme, which aims to shower parents with cash and encourage young couples to start families.
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Clowns Sans Frontieres in Haiti
Telegraph 12/02/10
Portuguese police have ignored hundreds of potential new leads in the Madeleine McCann case because of their belief that she is already dead, it has been claimed.
BBC News 08/02/10
Paying drug addicts to be sterilised is exploitative and wrong, say critics of just such a scheme that runs in the US. Jane Beresford talks to the woman behind Project Prevention.
Times 09/02/10
A 12-year-old girl fighting to divorce her 80-year-old husband in Saudi Arabia is to receive legal assistance from the Government in what could become a test case for banning child marriage in the kingdom.
Times 04/02/10
His mother and father are still alive, well and living in the same district of Port-au-Prince as the orphanage to where they brought him six years ago. Ezechiel Felix is now 10 years old and wants to be adopted.
Telegraph 03/02/10
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By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Published: 7:00AM GMT 03 Feb 2010
The baby was delivered on January 27 at a hospital in Changchun, in the North Eastern Chinese province of Jilin, when the girl was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, according to a local newspaper.
The City Evening News reported that the girl [...]
Telegraph 02/02/10
Addicts who won’t give up heroin while pregnant should have their children removed.