New vest to help fire fighters, rescue workers keep coolSeptember 22nd, 2009 SYDNEY - Inventors have developed a vest that can help fire fighters and emergency workers maintain their cool. The CoolMe Vest significantly reduces heat stress and recovery period for workers in extreme heat conditions.
US Fritzl-victim's daughters' 'minds are blank'September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - The two daughters of Jaycee Lee Dugard, victim of US Fritzl Phillip Garrido, were "starved of information" by their father for years, say cops. Jaycee had Starlite, 15, and Angel, 11, while she was held captive by Phillip for 18 years in his secret evil garden, reports The Sun.
Couple accused of keeping 3 children starving in Texas hotel bathroom for months indictedAugust 26th, 2009 Couple indicted in Texas starvation caseDALLAS — A grand jury in Dallas has indicted a couple accused of keeping the woman's three young children starving in a hotel bathroom for at least nine months. A prosecutor says 30-year-old Abneris Santiago and her boyfriend, 37-year-old Alfred Santiago, were each indicted Wednesday on three charges of first-degree injury to a child.
Malawi kids 'taking in 50 ciggies a day'August 25th, 2009 LONDON - Thousands of kids in Malawi are taking in 50 cigarettes worth of nicotine a day due to their employment as child labourers on the country's tobacco fields, warns an organisation. According to a study by Plan, the kids showed an array of nicotine poisoning symptoms, such as severe headaches, abdominal pain, muscle weakness and breathlessness.
Brit kids stare at screens for 10hrs a dayAugust 17th, 2009 LONDON - British children spend ten hours a day glued to TVs, computers, mobiles and games consoles, according to a new survey. The survey by energy firm Npower found that square-eyed youngsters aged seven to 16 spend a shocking four months a year - staring at screens.
Developmentally disabled Dallas woman rescued after being padlocked in truck on 100-degree dayAugust 12th, 2009 Disabled Dallas woman rescued from truckDALLAS — Police say a developmentally disabled Dallas woman who was rescued from the back of a locked box truck had been beaten and left for more than an hour in 100-degree heat. Police say 21-year-old Latisha Morris was dehydrated and suffering from heat exhaustion when police and fire-rescue workers found her Monday afternoon.
Mum of 13 kids taken into care should be sterilised, says her sisterJuly 31st, 2009 LONDON - The sister of Theresa Winters, who has vowed to keep on having kids until she's allowed to keep one of her 13 children taken into care, has called for her to be sterilised. Louise Walls, 37, a mum-of-three, said that she was ashamed of Winters, and accused her of having more kids out of "pure spite".
200 boys groomed as suicide bombers rescued in PakistanJuly 28th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Two-hundred boys, who were being trained at a secret location to carry out suicide attacks, were rescued by the security forces in northwest Pakistan, a media report said Monday. The boys, aged from six to 13 years, were rescued in Mardan in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Geo TV said.
Octomom inks $250k deal for kids to star reality in TV showJuly 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Nadya Suleman, the mother of the world's most famous octuplets, has inked a deal standing at nearly 250,000 dollars for each of her 14 kids to star in a reality TV programme. According to the contracts filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the kids will earn 250 a day over three years though a judge is yet to give a nod of approval.
3 emaciated children kept in hotel bathroom for about a year; mother, boyfriend face chargesJuly 23rd, 2009 3 children found starved in Dallas hotel bathroomDALLAS — Three children were kept in a hotel bathroom for about a year and were "horribly emaciated" when police found them earlier this month, authorities said. One claimed to have been repeatedly sexually assaulted.
Family members of starving children found in Dallas hotel bathroom say they want custodyJuly 23rd, 2009 Family wants custody of starved kids kept at hotelDALLAS — The aunt of three emaciated children forced to spend day and night in a hotel bathroom in Texas for at least nine months said Thursday that she and their grandmother want custody of the youngsters, who were placed in foster care together. Sonia Santiago, the sister-in-law of the children's mother, said Abneris Santiago has been deceiving family members about her life in Texas since moving from Florida with her boyfriend in late 2006.
Kids who eat with their families 'less likely to get into trouble in later life'July 8th, 2009 LONDON - A new study by researchers at the University of Alabama has shown that kids who have dinner at the table with the parents are less likely to get into trouble when they are older. The study showed that such kids are less prone to end up drinking or smoking, taking drugs, getting into fights, running away from home and other 'problem behaviour' as adolescents.
Affair of mum who dumped kids for toyboy doomed, says her dadJune 11th, 2009 LONDON - The dad of a mother-of-six, who abandoned her children to social workers to live with her 14-year-old son's best friend, has warned her: "It will never last."
It was only after reading The Sun that Glen Mallinson discovered 33-year-old daughter Debbie had run off with Adam Caban, 18. But Glen said she was "a good mum" to her children, aged from three to 15.
Woman, 90, rescued after three days in bathtubJune 6th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - A 90-year-old California woman survived three days stuck in her bathtub after becoming too weak to get out by herself, the Contra Costa Times has reported. Shirley Madsen, who lives in Walnut Creek, just east of San Francisco, survived by drinking water from a rubber duck and continually adding hot water to stay warm until her family rescued her.
Landslide buries over 50 people in ChinaJune 5th, 2009 CHONGQING - Three people were rescued while 56 others remained buried under rocks Friday following a landslide in a mining area in southwest China. The landslide occurred at about 3 p.m.
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