News about children
Internet 'moment of silence' to mark US school tragedy
US tech leaders and celebrities have joined a call for an "Internet moment of silence" Friday to remember the victims of last week's massacre of 26 people at a Connecticut elementary school.
22 December 2012
US adoption groups voice concern over Russia ban
US adoption agencies expressed deep concern Thursday after President Vladimir Putin backed legislation making it illegal for Russian children to be adopted by Americans.
22 December 2012
US boy, 11, brings gun to class after massacre
An 11-year-old boy has been charged with possessing a deadly weapon after bringing a gun to school, claiming he was worried about a massacre like Connecticut's.
19 December 2012
US gun laws vary widely
The horrific shooting that has left 20 young children and six adults dead in rural Connecticut revived the familiar US gun law debate, where restrictions vary widely between different states.
16 December 2012
Iran sympathises after 'tragic' US school shooting
Iran was quick on Saturday to express condolences after the "tragic" shooting rampage that left 26 people dead, including 20 small children, at an elementary school in the United States.
15 December 2012
20 kids, 6 adults massacred in US school
A heavily armed young gunman slaughtered 20 small children and six adults at a school in an idyllic Connecticut town on Friday, in one of the worst mass shootings in US history.
15 December 2012
Nazarbayeva calls parents to be more sly than children in Internet use
Majilis deputy Dariga Nazarbayeva believes that parents have to control access of their children to harmful information on the Internet.
14 December 2012
'Worrying' increase in global child trafficking: UN
Children -- most of them girls -- now make up 27 percent of all human trafficking cases, marking an alarming increase in recent years.
13 December 2012
Beer is good for you: study finds anti-virus powers
Consuming large quantities of a key ingredient in beer can protect against winter sniffles and even some serious illnesses in small children, a Japanese brewery said citing a scientific study.
07 December 2012
Australian child takes grenade for 'show and tell'
An Australian school was evacuated Wednesday after a child took a hand grenade into the classroom for a "show and tell" lesson.
06 December 2012
War-era shell kills four Vietnamese children
A shell from the Vietnam War killed four children and seriously injured four other villagers when it exploded at a family party.
03 December 2012
New York nanny pleads not guilty to kid slayings
A Manhattan nanny accused of stabbing to death two small children in her care before trying to commit suicide pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a hospital court hearing.
30 November 2012
China arrests 90 over child abductions: state media
Police have arrested 90 gang suspects across China and freed 28 children who were allegedly kidnapped from the far west and taken to various cities to steal, the China Daily said on Thursday.
23 November 2012
47 children killed in Egypt school bus tragedy: officials
Forty-seven school children were killed on Saturday when a train smashed into their bus in central Egypt after a railway signal operator fell asleep, officials said, prompting protests and resignations.
19 November 2012
Nazarbayev signed convention on protection of kidnapped children
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed a Law On ratification of the convention on civil-legal aspects of the international kidnapping of children.
14 November 2012
BBC showed 'basic' journalistic failings in abuse story
The BBC showed "basic" journalistic failures in a news report in which it wrongly accused a senior politician of child abuse, an internal investigation has found.
13 November 2012
Flu, fever in pregnancy tied to autism risk - study
Women who had the flu or ran a fever for more than a week during their pregnancy face a greater risk of having a child with an autism spectrum disorder.
13 November 2012
Sesame Street puppeteer denies underage sex claim
The puppeteer behind Elmo on "Sesame Street" says he is taking time out from the much-loved US children's TV show to fight a "defamatory" claim he had a sexual relationship with an underage boy.
13 November 2012
Australia scraps plan to filter Internet
Australia on Friday scrapped a controversial plan to filter the Internet, saying it will instead block hundreds of websites identified by Interpol as among the worst child abuse sites.
09 November 2012
Kazakhstan's infant mortality 18% over Europe
Kazakhstan’s infant and maternal mortality is 18 percent higher than in Central and Eastern European countries with similar GDP per capita.
09 November 2012
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