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Women, kids among 17 dead in NW Pakistani bombing (AP)

September 7th, 2010

Injured victims of a suicide bombing are treated at a local hospital in Bannu, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes, police said. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammad)AP - A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 14 women and children and three officers, the latest in a string…

Women, kids among 12 dead in NW Pakistani bombing (AP)

September 7th, 2010

Injured victims of a suicide bombing are treated at a local hospital in Bannu, Pakistan on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes, police said. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammad)AP - A car bomb ripped through a police compound in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing 11 women and children and one officer, the latest in a string…

Silk’s dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons (AP)

August 28th, 2010

AP - For one month a year, from morning to night, Dilorom Nishanova grows silkworms, a painstaking and exhausting job. She has been doing it since she was 8.

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Train hits van in SAfrica; kills at least 9 kids (AP)

August 25th, 2010

A family members react at a accident seen on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug 25, 2010. A driver taking children to school went around a closed railroad crossing gate Wednesday, then collided with an oncoming train that killed at least nine pupils and injured five others, police and witnesses said.(AP Photo)AP - A driver taking children to school went around a closed railroad crossing gate Wednesday, then collided with an oncoming train that killed at least nine pupils and injured…

Train hits van in SAfrica; kills at least 8 kids (AP)

August 25th, 2010

AP - South African local media is reporting that at least eight school children have been killed and four others injured when a train hit a van taking the children…

Mom to be arrested in mystery death of 3 kids (AP)

August 6th, 2010

This undated image made available by Grampian Police in Aberdeen, Scotland, shows Gianluca Riggi, 8, Cecilia Riggi, 5 and Augustino Riggi, 8. Pasquale Riggi, 46, an oil executive from Colorado, described his grief Friday Aug. 6, 2010, after police launched an inquiry into the mystery death of his three children at a town house in Edinburgh. The children were discovered following a gas explosion, but are not thought to have died as a result of the blast. Their mother is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after apparently falling from an upper story of the Edinburgh house. Police said they are investigating the circumstances of the deaths and have interviewed the children's father, but confirmed he is not a suspect in the case. (AP Photo/Grampian Police) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESAP - The American mother of three children who were found dead in an Edinburgh town house will face criminal charges in a Scottish court, police said Friday.


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Suicide car bomb kills 6 kids in south Afghanistan (AP)

August 2nd, 2010

In this handout photo provided by the MOD, Sunday Aug. 1, 2010, soldiers from 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, during day three of Operation Tor Shezada, in Afghanistan. The troops have cleared large areas of the key route into Sayedebad, removing numerous IEDs and ultimately increasing security in the area. British and Afghan Troops have occupied the first of several permanent check points and the military presence will allow the local population the freedom of movement to go about the their normal daily lives without risk of intimidation from the insurgents. (AP Photo, MOD, HO)AP - A suicide car bomber blew himself up next to a police truck bringing a southern Afghan official to work early Monday, killing six children nearby, officials said.


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Mexico dad charged with giving away kids for debt (AP)

June 6th, 2010

AP - Prosecutors in the capital charged Sunday that a man who reported his two children kidnapped last week really gave them to a woman to settle a debt of…

Youngest Everest climber hopes to inspire kids (AP)

May 24th, 2010

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009 file photo provided by the Romero family, Jordan Romero, 13, Jordan Romero poses at the Carstensz Pyramid summit, Oceania's highest peak at 16,024 feet, making Jordan the youngest person to summit. Romero, a 13-year-old American boy has become the youngest climber to reach the top of Mount Everest. A spokesman for Romero says the boy's team called by satellite phone from the summit of the world's highest peak on Saturday, May 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Romero family, File) ** NO SALES **AP - An eighth-grader from California who became the youngest climber to reach the top of Mt. Everest said Monday he hopes his achievement will encourage young people worldwide to…

Chinese media: 5 kids hurt in new school attack (AP)

April 30th, 2010

Drops of blood are seen at a kindergarten where a knife attack occurred in Taixing, Jiangsu province April 29, 2010. REUTERS/China DailyAP - A Chinese state media report says a man has killed himself after attacking five children at a kindergarten in eastern China, the latest in a string of assaults…

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