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Irena Sendler — credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets — died Monday, her family said. She was 98. ... Irena Sendler — credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from...
An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car's floor, police said Tuesday. Constable Wayne Burnett said he was "shocked and appalled" when he pulled over the unregistered car Friday in the central Australian...
A mother taken from a polygamist sect in Texas and being held as a minor in state custody gave birth to a baby boy who was immediately taken into child-protective custody. State officials acknowledged the mother may be an adult and said they were trying to determine her true age. Since state...
The wife of a Baptist preacher from R. Kelly's hometown, a business executive and a telecommunications company employee were the first three jurors chosen Monday for the R&B superstar's child pornography trial. ... But he said he felt he could give a fair trial to the...
Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Monday accusing a man and woman of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts. ... U.S. Attorney John Wood said the case is unusual in that a parent has been...
UNICEF is setting up child-friendly spaces in camps giving shelter to people affected by Cyclone Nargis. These spaces offer care and protection for children and young people especially those who have lost or been separated from their families. Just in Laputta Township in the Irrawaddy Delta,...
Police say bullet lodged in Texan's forehead during shootout with car dealer BEAUMONT, Texas - A Texas teenager who refused to let police extract a bullet lodged in his forehead has struck a plea deal that caps his punishment at 10 years in prison. Prosecutors wanted the bullet to prove Joshua...
The bodies of the young teenagers were brought out of the wreckage on doors scavenged from what remained of their school. So far rescuers have recovered more than 60 bodies from Juyuan Middle School, which collapsed in a 7.9-magnitude earthquake Monday, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Some...
A YORKSHIRE MP is at the centre of a dispute over "Stalinist" plans for compulsory vaccinations before children are allowed to start school. ... Wakefield Labour MP Mary Creagh, who is in charge of drawing up the public health section of the party's General Election...
A 10-page letter delivered to President Bush's Crawford ranch on Saturday by Fundamentalist LDS Church member Willie Jessop has not yet made its way to the White House. ... In the letter, Jessop asks Bush to intervene on behalf of the hundreds of FLDS children, teenagers...
