A 45-year-old man has been arrested over "serious sexual crimes" in connection with a long-running child abuse inquiry at a former Jersey care home, police have said.

PORTSMOUTH -- An eight-month-old child is being treated for severe burns and police have arrested her mother's boyfriend. Matthew Alan Simon, 19, is charged with felony child abuse and neglect...

The director of the National Children Institute (INAC) in the eastern Moxico Province, Angelino Armando Loló, Thursday here appealed to the Angolan society for unity in the fight against violence to children.

Madeleine McCann's parents, family friends and other holiday-makers have been called back to Portugal to participate in a reconstruction of the night she disappeared, the London Times has learned.

This should never, ever happen

China has warned it would step up a controversial "re-education" campaign for Tibetans after a fresh protest showed a huge security crackdown had failed to extinguish nearly one month of unrest.

TibetNet[Friday, April 04, 2008 19:49] Dharamshala, April 4 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama has expressed his appreciation and gratitude to the world leaders, Parliamentarians, NGOs and members of the public who have expressed their concern over the...

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Jamaica's poor have been abandoned by the government and left to the mercy of violent criminal gangs, Amnesty International says in a new report.

Tibetans reject charge as Beijing steps up attacks on Dalai Lama