NEW DELHI—At least 22 children died and more than two dozen others are seriously ill after eating food contaminated with insecticide at a state-run school in eastern India, government officials and doctors said Wednesday. The children, aged between 8 and 12, fell sick Tuesday after eating lunch at an elementary school in Gandaman, a village about 65 miles from Patna, the capital of Bihar, one of India’s poorest states. The […]

Zara Khan, eight, and Ibrahim made to hold hands in air at gunpoint Father Shafiq was dragged at knifepoint to hand over cash to gang Children playing catch before gang broke into father’s taxi business Ibrahim has nightmares since the robbery and pair sleep in parents’ bed Ibrahim wakes up shouting ‘please don’t shoot me’ Zara said she thought was a game until they pointed a gun at her Two […]

Susan Taylor got into ‘serious difficulties’ as she approached finish point Her husband Stephen, 43, was part of team on his wife’s support boat Her paramedic brother David pulled her from water and tried to revive her Mrs Taylor’s father says: ‘I’ve lost the most wonderful person in the world’ Donations to children’s hospice have reached £13,000 since her death A British woman collapsed just a mile short of swimming […]

A man in his 60s was found dead at house on quiet country lane Police want to question Ian John McLoughlin, 55 Francis Cory-Wright, a convicted paedophile, was injured and is in hospital It is believed McLoughlin was in prison with Cory-Wright Police described McLoughlin as ‘very dangerous’ A pensioner was murdered trying to defend an 88-year-old convicted paedophile from a man it is believed he met in prison, it […]

    Faye Jones, from Cramlington, Northumberland, disappeared three days ago in popular holiday resort Marmaris     Single mother Rhonda, 39, has been searching for her day and night     Faye met bar worker Murat Can Ertani, 22, in same resort last year     The pair fled together after Faye argued with her mother about him     Turkish police say Ertani has a criminal record and has spent time in jail […]

Bus was believed to have been carrying 60 people at time of horrific crash Emergency Services Ministry has confirmed 18 people died in incident Youngest victim was a six-year-old girl, according to reports Eighteen people have been killed and dozens injured after a truck crashed into a bus in a Moscow suburb. Russia’s Emergency Services Ministry has confirmed the youngest victim was a six-year-old girl. According to reports the green […]

Some 300,000 people in eastern China have fled their homes as Typhoon Soulik moves inland amid warnings of floods and landslides, state media report. Winds of 119 km/hour (74 mph) lashed the coastal Fujian Province, said China’s National Meteorological Centre. Emergency response plans were being implemented, said Xinhua state media, after recent torrential rain reportedly left 200 people dead or missing. The typhoon earlier led to extensive flooding on the […]

Fewer babies have been born in Europe since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, a new study shows. The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany found that the birth rate in 28 European countries dropped as unemployment rose. People under 25 have been particularly affected, along with those living in southern European countries like Spain. The relationship between the economy and fertility has long been discussed, […]

A landslide has buried between 30 and 40 people in China’s Sichuan province following heavy rain, state media say. Rescue workers with search dogs are at the scene in the city of Djiangyan, Xinhua news agency reports. On Tuesday a bridge collapsed in the nearby city of Jiangyou, leaving at least 12 people missing. Days of heavy rain and floods have damaged hundreds of homes and forced the evacuation of […]

A car bomb has wounded dozens of people in a stronghold of Lebanon’s Shia militant group Hezbollah in Beirut. Lebanon’s Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil says 53 people were hurt in the blast, in the Beir el-Abed area. No group has said it was behind the attack. Rebels in neighbouring Syria have threatened to target Hezbollah in Lebanon, which intervened in the fighting over the border to support President Bashar […]