13/09/2012 | Argentina

Bossio: '60% of children in Argentina receive ANSeS benefits'

The head of the ANSeS social security agency Diego Bossio said today that six out of every ten child under the age of 18 in the country receive funding from the government's benefits scheme, highlighting the positive impact this has had on thousands of families.

13/07/2012 | Argentina

City students lift sit-in demonstrations

Students who carried out various sit-in demonstrations in five schools across Buenos Aires this week, demanding a cafeteria service and photocopiers for their schools, announced on Friday that the protests were officially lifted.

27/07/2012 | Argentina

Tension in Moreno after four children found dead

After the news broke that four children aged between 4 and 6 years old had been found dead this morning in a swimming pool in a sports club in Moreno, tension broke out among local residents who began shouting and throwing rocks at reporters. The three children drowned accidentally, autopsies showed, while the other was the son of a murdered businessman,

28/07/2012 | Argentina

Children killed by drowning buried in Moreno

The children who were found dead yesterday from drowning, which included brothers Axel Luna, aged 4, and Elio Sebastián Dos Santos, aged 6, in a sports club swimming pool, were buried today in a private ceremony held by their family members in Moreno, Greater Buenos Aires.

04/11/2011 | Argentina

Chacabuco crash: seven remain hospitalized in 'severe condition'

Four children and three adults remain hospitalized “in severe condition,” after the fatal crash which took place Thursday night between a van and a lorry along Route 7, along kilometre 180, between Chacabuco and Carmen de Areco. Five children and three adults died in the accident. Junín’s General Prosecutor reported that the truck driver “was indicted.”

19/01/2012 | Argentina

Four dead and two badly injured in road accident in Santa Fe

A couple and their two children were killed early this morning in an accident between a range car and a passenger bus along Route 34, between Totoras and Salto Grande in Santa Fe province.

24/03/2012 | Argentina

Argentina commemorates 36 years since last military dictatorship

01/07/2011 | Argentina

Apartment fire kills two children in Constitución neighbourhood

Two children aged four and five years old were killed this morning, after a fire broke out in their home, in the city neighbourhood of Constitución, police officials and SAME medical authorities reported.

02/11/2011 | Argentina

Train collides with school bus in San Luis, at least 8 dead

A cargo train crashed into a school bus this afternoon, with 40 fifth grade students on board in the town of Las Zanjitas, San Luis province. According to local sources, there are eight dead and three remain at the ICU seriously injured. The bus and train drivers remain under protective custody.

02/11/2011 | Argentina

'It's the worst tragedy in the history of San Luis,' says Rodriguez Saá

Governor of San Luis province, Alberto Rodríguez Saá, spoke during a radio interview to comment on the train accident which took place today in the area of Las Zanjitas, a town located fifty-five kilometers south of the province capital. He informed that there would be two days of mourning due to the incident, in which so far eight were reported dead.

12/01/2011 | Argentina

Four Argentine children die after drowning in Brazil

Four children between 6-11 years old have died after drowning in an artificial lake. The lake is part of a tourist park where the children were playing, and said to have entered the area looking for a place to cool off.

16/06/2011 | Argentina

Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital staff stage 24-hour strike

Doctors, medical staff, and nurses from the Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital were staging a strike today, due to staff shortages within the medical facility, and to re-open the collective bargaining over wages with the City government.  

17/06/2011 | Argentina

Gutiérrez Children's Hospital announces new strike for end of June

Following the Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital’s 24-hour strike staged by doctors, nurses and medical professionals yesterday, staff announced a new 48-hour strike which will take place on the June 28 and 29, furthering their salary demands.

05/05/2013 | World

Pope encourages protection of children from abuse

Pope Francis is calling for courageous defence of children to protect them from abuse. Francis made no mention of the church scandals in many countries in which clergy abused children and hierarchy covered up for them. 

28/12/2012 | World

Putin signs ban on US adoptions of Russian children

President Vladimir Putin signed a law that bans Americans from adopting Russian children and imposes other measures in retaliation for new US legislation meant to punish Russian human rights abusers.

11/01/2013 | World

Prolific sex abuser Savile 'groomed a nation'

The late British TV presenter Jimmy Savile, honoured by both the queen and the pope, sexually assaulted hundreds of people, mainly children, at BBC premises and hospitals over six decades of unparalleled abuse, a police-led report said today.

12/01/2013 | World

New York governor declares public health emergency to combat flu

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a public health emergency today, giving pharmacists permission to administer flu vaccinations to more people as officials seek to stem the worst flu outbreak in that state in several years.

26/10/2012 | World

CNBC exec two children stabbed to death in NYC apartment, nanny arrested

The wife of CNBC executive Kevin Krim returned home to her luxury New York City apartment to find two of her young children stabbed to death in the bathtub, and the family's nanny was arrested as the suspect in the killings, police said.

14/12/2012 | World

Tearful Obama calls for action after school shooting

A tearful US President Barack Obama expressed "overwhelming grief" today for the victims of a shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school and called on US citizens to set aside politics and take "meaningful action" to prevent further tragedies of this kind.

17/12/2012 | World

Schools in two other Connecticut towns in lockdown

Schools in two Connecticut towns were in lockdown today, the first day children returned to class since Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

06/06/2012 | World

At least 78 killed in Syria's Hama province

Activists said pro-government militia men and security forces killed at least 78 people, including children, in Syria's central province of Hama.

28/07/2012 | World

Rwanda demands respect from the West after aid cuts

Rwanda's foreign minister accused Western governments today of using aid to treat African states like children, after four countries cut or delayed aid to Kigali because of its policy in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

10/09/2012 | World

Tablet for children to hit US market

Toys R Us Inc is launching its own tablet designed for children, to be sold exclusively at its stores, as the world's largest specialty toy retailer gears up to battle online and big box retailers in the holiday season.

22/02/2011 | World

Indian man has 39 wives, nearly 100 children

The more, the merrier is certainly true for Ziona Chana, a 66-year-old man in India's remote northeast who has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren -- and wouldn't mind having more.

14/03/2012 | World

Swiss probe deadly bus crash as families arrive

Distraught parents flew to Switzerland after a bus carrying a Belgian school group home from a ski trip crashed into the wall of a Swiss tunnel, killing 22 children and six others.

28/05/2012 | World

Fire kills 19, mostly children, in upscale Qatar mall

At least 19 foreign nationals, including 13 children, were killed in a fire that ripped through an upscale shopping mall in Qatar, the country's interior ministry said.

08/06/2012 | Latin America

18 dead and 37 injured after coach crashes in Bolivia

At least eighteen people were killed and thirty-seven injured, after a passenger coach skidded off a main road and fell some 120 metres into a ravine along los Yungas routeway, in the area of La Paz.

25/07/2012 | Entertainment

Judge appoints new guardian to Michael Jackson's children

Michael Jackson's family members found themselves at the centre of a media firestorm yesterday over the late singer's will and guardianship of his three children that prompted questions about the children, his mother and his multimillion-dollar estate.

08/10/2012 | Entertainment

Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman split after 30-year marriage

Actors Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman are separating after 30 years of marriage, DeVito's spokesman said.