Month: June 2010

US and British leaders sought to ease tensions amid sharpened rhetoric over the expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It comes as President Barack Obama steps up his role in the matter. As political pressure […] […]

SIMON Monjack, the husband of late actress Brittany Murphy, had a son and a daughter whom he kept secret until his sudden death last month. TMZ said the British-born screenwriter’s surprise family was revealed after […] […]

WASHINGTON—It was a breathtaking shock, severing her from her childhood and ending her all-too-brief youth. At 17, and in her last year of high school, Carla Chacon learned she was pregnant. In November, she is […] […]

Nearly half of suicides among 10 to 14-year-olds are due to bullying, according to research. Charity Beatbullying said of 59 cases of child suicide reported in the national media between 2000 and 2008, 26 were […] […]

A LEADING UK expert has urged schools to ban children under the age of nine from using computers because the technology is damaging their brains. Speaking at a conference of childcare specialists yesterday, Dr Aric […] […]