Two retired Metropolitan Police officers have been charged with child sex offences and will appear in court next month. Jack Addis, 63, of no fixed address but from Perthshire, Scotland, and Jeremy Laxton, 62, from Lincolnshire will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court
The number of children grappling with various forms of undernutrition in Sri Lanka increased for the first time in at least six years in 2022, a government report and data from the health ministry indicate. The island nation of 22 million people
A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of child sexual offences. Police said the man has been arrested on suspicion of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity in Wirral. Liverpool Echo reports the man was arrested
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 1963. (Corbis/Bettmann-UPI) This story was first published in January 2017. Before leading boycotts, marches and a national movement in
A magistrate in Zambia on Thursday granted bail to eight Croatian nationals charged with child trafficking. Magistrate David Makalicha in Ndola, in the mineral-rich Copperbelt province, said the eight should each pay about $1,000 bail and surrender their passports to the court.
Prince Harry has claimed his father King Charles carried a teddy everywhere due to the “essential loneliness of childhood”. The Duke of Sussex, 38, make the remark in his new Megxit memoir ‘Spare’. Harry wrote: “It was a pitiful object, with broken
Prince Harry is suffering from “second child syndrome” according to a health expert who said the Duke of Sussex is “uncomfortable” with his brother’s presence. Harry has come under fire after his book Spare hit the shelves yesterday. The memoir contained a
A 17-year-old boy has pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to the murder of Jermaine Cools in Croydon, south London. Jermaine was just 14 when he was killed in Croydon, south London. He was injured in London Road near West Croydon railway station
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The Tokyo government announced their plans to provide benefits of 5,000 yen ($38) per person per month to residents of Tokyo aged 18 or young to assist parents with the cost of their children’s education. On Wednesday, Governor Yuriko Koike instructed officials