Parents are too scared to carry out basic first aid to save their child's life and many fear any treatment they give could cause further injury, new research shows... more
Last week a report claimed that nearly 1 million under-25s were on the dole. But in the capital, bright young businesses are springing up like green shoots. Andy Barker meets the Dragons of the future...... more
Air strikes by US forces in Afghanistan are thought to have killed dozens of civilians, including women and children, as pictures emerged showing villagers burying their dead... more
Nine children were killed and many more injured when heavy artillery struck a paediatrics ward and women's wing in a Sri Lankan hospital, the Red Cross reported... more
Charities across London have been forced to turn away hundreds of volunteers after record numbers offered their services over the Christmas period... more
A British Red Cross appeal to tackle cholera and chronic food shortages in Zimbabwe was under way amid fears the crisis could prompt people from the country to head for the UK... more
A boatload of elderly British passengers aboard a UK-operated cruise ship on Germany's Rhine have been quarantined after falling ill with the virulent norovirus... more
This Sunday Prince Charles will be at the
70th anniversary celebrations of the rescue of 10,000 children from Nazi Germany. Here one of them tells his extraordinary story ... more
Mika landed three years ago, a fully formed psychedelic pop sensation with a sound that crosses Freddie Mercury with Mozart. Hermione Eyre meets a charming misfit who refuses to be ordinary
Could we soon see a Baroness Widdecombe of Battleaxe? I hear moves are afoot to secure veteran Conservative MP and darling of the Tory grassroots, Ann Widdecombe, a peerage following the general election
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