Articles by sandrea

Many parents could be better off staying at home as the cost of childcare is making it too expensive to remain working, research has claimed. Some working mothers could be financially worse off by almost […] […]

A murder investigation is under way after a man was gunned down in the street. The 25-year-old victim, who has not been formally identified, was found by police in Brayfield Road, Liverpool, at around 10.10pm […] […]

Consumer confidence in the UK has slipped to levels normally associated with a recession, raising further concern over the UK’s economic recovery. The reading published by GfK NOP dropped for the third month in a […] […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—A U.S. citizen who was kidnapped last week from his home in Haiti’s capital was freed Tuesday after police surrounded his captors’ hideout, a Haitian police official said. Frank Jean-Baptiste was rescued by a […] […]

BRUSSELS—A human rights group said Tuesday it believed that at least 88 people, ten of them children, have died in detention in Syria during five months of anti-government protests—a dramatic increase that coincides with the […] […]

NEW YORK—A ban on religious and other head coverings on rides at a suburban amusement park on Tuesday sparked scuffles leading to 15 arrests. Rye Playland, just north of New York City, was crowded with […] […]

A CHINESE court has sentenced two Tibetan Buddhist monks to prison for assisting in the death of a 16-year-old colleague who set himself on fire. The official Xinhua News Agency says Tsering Tenzin was sentenced […] […]

TEXAS Governor Rick Perry has slammed a court ruling that invalidated parts of a law he signed that would force doctors to conduct an ultrasound for women seeking an abortion. “This important sonogram legislation ensures […] […]

THE Wikileaks website, which contains thousands of US embassy cables, has crashed during an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy website says it’s fending off a cyberattack after being lambasted for releasing more supposedly confidential US diplomatic cables. […] […]