Ottawa - Using nothing but her bare hands, a Canadian mother fought off a cougar that had pinned down her three-year old daughter in a forest north of Vancouver, police said on Wednesday. The child, named Maya, escaped with only superficial wounds after the...
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Girls as young as 11 have been giving birth among Malaysia's Orang Asli, or "original people," according to a report. The New StraitsTimes quoted a government official as saying that he had been...
PHNOM PENH (AFP) – A former child survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime's main torture centre sobbed Thursday as he told Cambodia's warcrimescourt of his harrowing separation from his mother at the jail. Norng Chan Phal, who was around nine years old at the...
Comment RSS Email Print Tag Heuer Carrera Black Mother Of Pearl Limited Edition Watch Given the power of the Internet and all that comes with it, getting this watch outside of Japan should not be a giant issue these days save for the fact that there will only be 600...
AN Indonesian mother-of-two has been cleared of defamation charges after emails she wrote about poor treatment at a local hospital appeared on social networking website Facebook. In a case that provoked outrage across the mainly Muslim nation, Prita Mulyasari, 32, was...
Britain has suffered its first swine flu death, health authorities confirmed last night. The victim was understood to be a 38-year-old woman who had recently given birth prematurely. Officials said she had a pre-existing health condition before contracting the virus....
A mother who watched her daughter die in her arms has been giving evidence at the trial of the sole surviving suspect from last November's Mumbai attacks. The witness, Nafisa Qureshi, 23, said her six-year-old daughter was shot in the back by gunmen on the night of 26...
HWASUNG, SOUTH KOREA - This has not been the happiest of seasons for South Koreans: economic recession, tensions over North Korea's nuclear and missile tests, the shocking suicide of former president Roh Moo-hyun. Amidst the gloom, the victory of Kim Yu-na at the World...
JEJU (South Korea): Asean and South Korea have signed a free trade agreement to boost investments between the regional grouping and the East Asian country. The agreement, signed by the trade ministers of the countries yesterday, completes the Asean-South Korea Framework...
When Chinese troops brutally suppressed demonstrations that had been growing on Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, hundreds of people were killed. As the 20th anniversary of the June 4 demonstration approaches, one mother still clearly remembers her son's death and is...
