It is important for parents to think about second-rung guardianship in case of accidents either in writing or verbally.
3 January 2009
In her young life, 4-year-old Leah Ashley Johnson has experienced many losses.
Her father, Eric Johnson, died Oct. 31 in a car crash near Wyndmere, N.D.
Her mother, Heather Johnson, died in a car crash in […]
Revealed: The ‘other woman’ in Second Life divorce… who’s now engaged to the web cheat she’s never met
The new fiancee of Second Life love rat David Pollard, whose marriage crumbled when his wife caught him ‘having online sex with her’, was unmasked today - and denied the pair had had a cyber-affair.
Linda Brinkley, 55, known […]
After 40 years, I’ve found my sister… living 300 yards away
03rd January 2009 UK
For years, they passed each other in the street - without so much as a flicker of recognition.
But to the amazement of Ken Whitty, the woman was not a stranger, but his long-lost younger sister Yvonne.
The discovery came four decades after […]
People cannot choose what they are born with. There has to be sensitivity shown to Intersex conditions which occur due to medical causes. Shanthi Soundarajan has come a long way from winning the 800m silver medal in 2006, and losing the medal because of a failed gender test. Thereafter she tried to commit suicide because […]
A noninvasive, continuous and automatic blood glucose-monitoring device, shaped like a wristwatch and which sounds like the next generation product for diabetics, has been developed in South Korea.
The device, named GluCall, has been produced by KMH Co. Ltd., a Korean listed company that specializes in medicine. KMH claims to have spent over $20 million over […]
A case of female infanticide was investigated by DNA analysis, and parents punished under sections 302 and 201.
Couple convicted for murder of daughter
3 Jan 2009
PANAJI: The children’s court on Friday found Shantaram Raikar and his wife Sashikala guilty of killing their six-day-old baby girl by pressing her neck and chest at Sanguem in 2006.
They […]
Woman sets herself, son ablaze, unable to celebrate son’s birthday
3 Jan 2009
PUNE: In a shocking incident, a woman committed suicide by setting herself ablaze along with her one-year-old son because she was unable to celebrate his birthday on Thursday evening.
The Hinjewadi police have identified the deceased as Sujata Vishnu Sherkar (28), and her son […]
An autorickshaw driver’s passions got ignited, and after being spurned, set the wife of a businessman on fire.
Woman spurns advances, set afire
3 Jan 2009
Ahmedabad: A woman paid the price of spurning an autorickshaw driver’s advances with her life on Thursday. She was attacked and set ablaze by Arvind Dhula, the accused in Shahibaug for this […]
I think it was the naughty Subramaniam Swamy who made the notorious statement about a former Prime Minister, ” He is living the life of a bachelor, but enjoying the fruits of marriage”. In a similar story, a father who was suspicious about the paternity of his son, bludgeoned him to death. Has anyone made […]
India has to solve the insurgency movements in North-eastern states by dialogue and firm resolve. The slow poison of insurgeny and civil disturances in India is worrying.
5 killed in Guwahati serial blasts
02 January 2009.
Guwahati: Five persons, including a boy and a woman, were killed and about 50 injured as serial blasts rocked the city […]