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German zookeepers in Nuremberg will bottle-feed a four-week-old polar bear and rear it away from its mother after concerns the mother would eat her cub, officials said Thursday. The cub, which doesn't yet have a name, was being cared for at Nuremberg City..
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CNN
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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of the assassinated Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, said Tuesday that he fully intended to take on a political role in his homeland but only after he has completed his studies at Oxford University. The 19-year-old gave his..
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CNN
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Police in Darry in northern Germany found the bodies of five children Wednesday, and a spokesman said their 31-year-old mother is the prime suspect in the slayings. The children were between 3 and 9 years old. Police said the mother appears to suffer from..
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News.com.au
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A TASMANIAN expert in family conflict resolution flew into a rage and murdered his elderly parents with an axe after his mother laughed about the death of his cat, a court was told yesterday.
Stephen Alexander Harper, 44, pleaded guilty in the Supreme..
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Guardian Unlimited
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A mother and her three daughters who forced two toddlers to take part in a "dog fight" and filmed it walked free from court yesterday.
The women, including the children's mother, goaded the tearful brother and sister to punch each other and even use a..
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BBC News
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The European Court of Human Rights has awarded a Polish woman 25,000 euros ($33,000; �16,000) in damages after she was refused an abortion.
Alicja Tysiac's eyesight worsened drastically after she had her third baby and she fears she may go blind...
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Washington Post
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Authorities are considering taking an 8-year-old boy who weighs 218 pounds into protective custody unless his mother improves his diet, officials said Monday. Social service officials will meet with family members Tuesday to discuss the health of Connor M..
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Times Online
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Three girls who were imprisoned by their mother in a house of indescribable filth for seven years may never recover from the ordeal, experts said last night. The girls were shut away from the outside world, existing in almost complete darkness, playing..
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CNN
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The mother of a 15-year-old British girl found dead on a beach in Goa has urged the Indian prime minister to investigate claims that police tried to cover up the fact she had been raped and murdered. Police initially said Scarlett Keeling drowned after dr..
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SF Gate
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A 12-year-old girl who was the sole survivor of a plane crash in Panama is "doing quite well" following her return to California, while dealing with the devastating loss of her close friend, her mother said.
Francesca Lewis of Santa Barbara has been re..
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BBC News
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The mother of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann has been formally declared a suspect by the Portuguese police, a family spokeswoman has said.
The BBC has learnt that the move was linked to bloodstains allegedly found in Kate and Gerry McCann's hir..
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CNN
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The mother of Madeleine McCann was interviewed by Portuguese police, as a witness, for a second time on Thursday amid reports of a possible forensic breakthrough in the hunt for the missing British four-year-old girl. The UK's Press Association reported T..
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FOX News
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Prince William turned 25 on Thursday and gained part of the inheritance left him by his mother, Princess Diana.
William, who is second in line to the throne, gains access to the interest and other income accrued on the $13 million he was left by his mo..
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Daily Mail
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Wildlife rangers are battling to save an orphaned baby mountain gorilla found clinging to her dead mother in the Congo.
The adult gorilla had been shot a point-blank range in the back of the head.
The two-month-old, who has been named Ndakasi by con..
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FOX News
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A man attacked his 51-year-old mother with a samurai-style sword Tuesday, nearly amputating one of her arms, police said.
The man called police shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday, saying he was suicidal, and asked police to meet him, said Cpl. Debbi Carlson..
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CNN
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A teenage boy carrying a severed head walked into a Japanese police station Tuesday saying he killed his mother, the latest in a series of grisly dismemberments that have horrified a nation renowned for its low crime rate.
The 17-year-old suspect led o..
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BBC News
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A teenage Japanese boy has walked into a police station carrying a severed human head and claiming to have killed his mother.
The 17-year-old went to a police station in the town of Aizuwakamatsu, north of Tokyo, carrying the head in a sports bag, Japa..
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News.com.au
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A MAN who slit his mother's throat because he heard voices telling him to "kill mummy for God" has been found not guilty of murder on grounds of insanity.
But chronically paranoid schizophrenic Enoch Samuel Wright, 30, is likely to spend the rest of hi..
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