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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 […] […]

A fund has been set up to help people affected by the shootings in Cumbria last week. The Cumbria Community Memorial Fund has been opened with the support of members of the Cumbria Recovery Co-ordination […] […]

PORTLAND, Ore.—The search for a missing 7-year-old Portland boy grew larger on Saturday as teams spent another day combing the hills and deep woods near a rural elementary school. Second-grader Kyron Horman disappeared on June […] […]

A bus crash in southern Switzerland is reported to have killed two Canadians and injured 19 others. The accident happened Saturday morning outside the village of Reckingen in the region of Valais. A Valais cantonal […] […]

Tomorrow a relay of 50 schoolchildren bearing an Olympic-style torch will start from Deir el Balah Elementary Boy’s School in central Gaza on the 17km road journey along the Mediterranean coast to the UN compound […] […]

Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has reaffirmed the importance of winning the hearts and minds of residents south of Cross Roads even as the security forces take the fight to deadly gangs. Ellington expressed confidence […] […]