NEW YORK - Older people like reading negative news stories about their younger counterparts because it boosts their own self-esteem, according to a new study.
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Safety concerns cut short an annual pumpkin smash-and-slide staged by students at an Ohio high school.
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Carr, 35, who was in court on Wednesday to answer a charge of speeding at 50mph in a 40mph limit posted the picture on his Twitter website. He is believed to have used his mobile phone to take a picture of a sign banning photographs from being taken inside the magistrates court in Sudbury, Suffolk.
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Parents should be careful about what they plant in their garden as flowers such as brugmansia, golden chain and nightshade can all lead to serious poisoning among children, reports a German safety organization.
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A DOTING father has recorded every step of his two children
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A South African minibus taxi driver five times over the legal blood alcohol limit at breakfast time was arrested on Wednesday for transporting 49 children in a 16-seat vehicle.
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A mother is in the Marion County jail accused of threatening her children with a butcher knife because they didn't say they loved her. According to a sheriff's report, Natasha Regina Brinkley, 43 was arrested and charged with aggravated domestic assault and child abuse.
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Authorities in Michigan say a man fathered 14 children with 13 different women and owes more than $530,000 in unpaid child support. The Flint Journal reports 42-year-old Thomas Frazier was jailed Thursday. Court records say he hasn't made a support payment in six years.
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Children are to be offered lessons on how to speak English formally amid fears that many are suffering from "word poverty", it has been reported. But how many words do people tend to know and use? Do people know more words than they actually use? And is having a large vocabulary something you learn or have a natural ability for?
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Reuters - A children's story about a British boy who encounters racism and bullying in the classroom after emigrating to Zimbabwe in the early 1980s was among the Costa Book Award winners announced on Tuesday.
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LONDON - British children's weekly pocket money has fallen to a seven-year low, in a sign parents are still cutting back on non-essential spending even as the country emerges from recession, a survey showed Monday.
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British children's weekly pocket money has fallen to a seven-year low, in a sign parents are still cutting back on non-essential spending even as the country emerges from recession, a survey showed Monday.
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A Fort Pierce mother is accused by police of leaving her children behind inside a store after allegedly shoplifting Saturday.Unabelle Sanchez, 23, of the 2900 block of North Indian River Drive, remained in the St. Lucie County Jail on $10,000 bail on two charges of felony child neglect, one charge of felony larceny among other charges.
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A Paris man who registered 55 children by 55 different mothers faces up to 10 years in jail and fines for suspected paternity fraud and for helping to obtain residency under false pretences, police said on Friday.
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PARIS - A Paris man who registered 55 children by 55 different mothers faces up to 10 years in jail and fines for suspected paternity fraud and for helping to obtain residency under false pretences, police said on Friday.
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A Paris man who registered 55 children by 55 different mothers faces up to 10 years in jail and fines for suspected paternity fraud and for helping to obtain residency under false pretences, police said on Friday.
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South Africa is spending more than $2 million (1.3 million pounds) a year to support polygamist President Jacob Zuma's wives and children, almost double the budget from a year ago, a minister said on Tuesday.
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Young viewers of children's television programs in North Carolina got a glimpse of something far more risque than their favorite cartoons, when a cable glitch broadcast two hours of the Playboy channel.
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France has ended restrictions barring people under 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in) from joining the police force.
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A bear got into an empty car, honked the horn and then sent it rolling 125 feet into a thicket, with the bear still inside, a Colorado family said. Seventeen-year-old Ben Story said he and his family were asleep in their Larkspur home, 30 miles south of Denver, when the bear managed to open the unlocked door of his 2008 Toyota Corolla early Friday and climbed inside.
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