33 h. ago London bus driver who killed girl, 9, after falling asleep due to smoking cannabis jailed for four years

Martin Asolo-Ogugua, 23, mounted a pavement and hit Ada Bicakci in front of her family

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39 h. ago Schoolboy, 14, pleaded 'I don't want to die' as he was held by passers

The tearful parents of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in broad daylight yesterday have left a picture of him outside the pub in north Manchester where he was brutally attacked.

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6 d. ago Inside house of horrors where parents starved boy to death with ominous sign on door

Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah subjected their son Abiyah to a cruel diet that led to his death - the family lived in squalor with images revealing the shocking state of their home

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6 d. ago Parents starved boy, 3, to death with harsh vegan diet then buried him in garden

Abiyah Yasharahyalah suffered severe malnourishment, rickets, anaemia and stunted growth before his death in 2020 - he'd been starved to death by his parents Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah

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6 d. ago Boy, three, starved to death by parents ‘had become invisible to authorities’

A review has warned ‘the safeguarding of children being impacted by harmful cultural practice is paramount’.

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7 d. ago Boy diagnosed with two cancers before age 3 after parents spotted unusual sign

The family of Felix Disney-Moore, now aged four, from Sandhurst, Berkshire, found themselves relieved the second cancer was leukaemia as it meant the first hadn't spread

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1 week ago Rampage killings have become commonplace and drugs like cannabis are to blame

Hitchens compared the light policing of cannabis in the West to countries like South Korea, Japan, and China, making the point that Asia sees very few of these rampage-style killings.

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1 week ago Elderly couple in their 70s become legal parents of surrogate baby boy despite judge's fears they could die before he reaches 18

The couple, both aged 72, applied to the courts for a parental order in July after the baby was born six months earlier to a surrogate in California using the husband's sperm and a donor egg.

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2 w. ago The facial feature that means you're more likely to have a son

You might think that having a boy or a girl is completely up to chance. But expectant parents might be able to hazard a good guess - depending on what the father's facial features are like.

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2 w. ago ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard

For years, Alexa has been our on-call vet, DJ, teacher, parent, therapist and whipping boy. What secrets would the data reveal?She is always listening. She is unfailingly polite. She is often obtuse. She is sometimes helpful. She frequently frustrates. She isn’t great with bashment artists. Or grime. Or drum’n’bass. She needs to be spoken to slowly and clearly, as you’d talk to an aged relative with diminished faculties. She doesn’t like French accents.‘“Alexa, how long do wasps live for?” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Baby boy found abandoned in stroller in train station after 'parents forgot six

The blunder happened on Tuesday evening at the Cacilhas South Terminal in Almada, south of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.

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2 w. ago Adorable little boy left orphaned after parents both die in TWO freak accidents just hours apart

Alexus Lee, 25, and her fiancé, John 'JR' Collins, 35, had just bought a house ahead of their February 2026 wedding when both were killed in freak crashes less than two hours apart.

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2 w. ago Parents of boy, 12, given 'bad batch' of medicine use Google to discover how ill he really is

It is sheer bad luck. My son should not have to go through this - it is not fair.

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3 w. ago I finally managed to impress the gen Z of my household – by admitting I skived out of an open day | Zoe Williams

Back in 1990, my sister and I pretended we were looking at universities when we were, in fact, roaming around shopping malls. This astounded my teensWhen you book your kid on a university open day, places tend to have a pretty strict specification: no more than one guest. Me and the middle teen kicked this around a bit, planning her trip to Bristol. Her friends could book their own place; it definitely wasn’t a cocktail party; so what kind of guest, exactly, did they have in mind? “They mean a parent. Didn’t you go with your parents?” Oh boy, no, we did not.My sister and I used to tell our mum that one of us had to go to, say, Newcastle, and the other one should go too, in case she got lost. Then we’d trouser the train fare – even in 1990, it was a lot – and spend the day in the Arndale centre in Wandsworth. Sometimes we went to the cinema. We never did anything lavish, like go out for lunch. We spent an awesome amount of time and a not negligible amount of money in the Body Shop. C...

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3 w. ago Starved boy died horror death after adoptive parents fed him olive brine as punishment

Isaiah Stark’s parents used olive brine as punishment and the malnourished youngster died of ingesting too much sodium, but local authorities ruled his death was an accident

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3 w. ago Frightened little boy, 7, dies in agony 'after parents force fed him appalling substance as punishment'

Seven-year-old Isaiah Stark was rushed to hospital after an extended period of vomiting and displaying 'unusual' behavior. He became unresponsive on the drive, and died the next day.

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3 w. ago Parents of boy who died three days after his first birthday despite 10 visits to A&E hope medics can provide answers at inquest

Little Archie Squire died after doctors failed to to properly diagnose him, despite more than 10 visits to A&E in his short life, lawyers argue.

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3 w. ago Parents of boy cruelly nicknamed 'Mickey Mouse' over giant growths caused by treatment for rare skin condition share their joy as he makes amazing transformation

A three-year-old boy once cruelly dubbed 'Mickey Mouse' over giant 'ears' caused by treatment for a rare skin condition has shown off his amazing recovery.

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3 w. ago ‘Cheeky, kind and full of life’: Mum pays tribute to boy, seven, killed in drugs lab explosion as man jailed

Reece Galbraith jailed for 14 years after explosion in Newcastle terraced street that killed two peopleA man operating a cannabis drugs lab which caused an explosion in a terraced street has been jailed for 14 years for the deaths of two people, including a seven-year-old boy.The boy, Archie York, was asleep in the flat above the drugs lab being run by Reece Galbraith, 33, when the blast happened in the Benwell area of Newcastle in the early hours of 16 October 2024. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Man who killed boy, 7, in explosion while making cannabis gummies jailed

Archie York was asleep on the sofa with his father when the explosion ripped through the home

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