MILAN - Seventeen migrants were rescued after a shipwreck in the Mediterranean, while two children died, the German NGO Sea Punks said on Sunday. The rescue took place in the early hours of Sunday ...

Keir Starmer is under fresh pressure to axe the two-child benefit limit as a new report lays bare "shameful" levels of child poverty. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation there are a ...

CEBU CITY — The tranquil surroundings of Barangay Lutac, City of Naga, were shattered by a harrowing crime that claimed the lives of a mother and her two children, Monday morning. The suspect is ...

Thane: The city police arrested two men in two unrelated cases of sexual ... isolated location and inappropriately touched her. The child told her mother of the "bad touch", following which ...

There are more levers which could be used to tackle child poverty than scrapping the two-child benefit cap, the Deputy Prime Minister has said as the Scottish Government seeks to mitigate it.

Ending the two-child cap on some benefits in Scotland could take place earlier than expected, with First Minister John Swinney saying his Government could act in the coming year. Setting out plans ...

Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather, who are both white, were arrested after two of their five children were found locked up in a shed outside their Sissonville home, near Charleston, in October ...

In Toronto, where housing prices are racing ahead of inventory, residents are building homes in their yards and moving their ...

Two children drowned in a lake in Attayampatti while washing their goats on Wednesday. According to police, Srikavi, 14, daughter of Shankar, and Pradeep Raja, son of Mahesh Kumar, had gone to ...

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WESH 2's Christina Watkins just released her first children's book, titled "Tiffany's Growing Garden" in memory of her older ...

His sun-browned fingers move deftly as he checks the irrigation system, sweat dripping from his brow beneath the shade of his ...