Beijing: More than 600 parents in China's eastern Zhejiang province were shocked and furious to receive a text message from their children's school calling pupils "a piece of s**t." Xin Ou primary school sent out a mass text message to Wenzhou parents on Tuesday that said "this student is basically a stupid piece of s**t, how was s/he ever born?" Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post quoted local Chinese media...
10:54 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: A three-year-old girl was drugged and raped by the husband of a playschool owner in Delhi, police said Thursday. The accused has been arrested. Pramod Malik, 35, was arrested on Wednesday for the incident that took place Monday in west Delhi's Sagarpur area and came to light two days later. A day after the incident, victim got ill and her family members admitted her in a hospital where...
11:52 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Washington: In the wake of the huge public outcry over the deadly Connecticut elementary school massacre, President Barack Obama has set a January deadline for proposals to deal with gun violence in the United States. Five days after last week's massacre that left 26, including 20 children, dead, Obama on Wednesday formed a new group led by Vice President Joe Biden charged with developing "concrete proposals" for dealing with gun...
01:34 PM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: With an aim to provide better security for children, particularly girls, North Delhi Municipal Corporation on Wednesday proposed to install CCTV surveillance cameras in all civic body-run schools. "We have proposed to install CCTV cameras in all municipal schools to provide security, especially for girls, for which extra budgetary provision has been made," Chairperson of NDMC's Education Committee, Rekha Gupta said on Wednesday. Each school will be provided...
01:25 AM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: A 17-year-old Class 11 boy, whose father is a head constable, committed suicide by jumping off the fourth floor of his school building in New Delhi on Tuesday, police said. Parvesh Dahiya jumped off the building of Modern Public school in south Delhi's Dwarka Sector-3 around 10:30 am. The victim was upset over his poor academic performance, said police. Victim's father Virender Dahiya, who works in Delhi Police,...
10:41 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Newtown: Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown on Tuesday for the first time since a gunman's rampage killed 26 people in an elementary school, altering the gun control debate in Washington and forcing a retailer to pull guns from shelves. Sandy Hook Elementary, where 20-year-old Adam Lanza gunned down a score of 6- and 7-year-olds and six adults on Friday, will remain closed. It is...
10:29 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Newtown: Opening a long and almost unbearable procession of grief, Newtown began burying its dead Monday, laying to rest two 6-year-old boys - one who was crazy about the New York Giants and one whose twin sister survived the rampage. Two funeral homes filled with mourners for Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto, the first of the 20 children killed in last week's school massacre to receive funerals. The gunman also...
05:33 AM, Dec 18, 2012
A message read at the funeral of 6-year-old Noah Pozner by his uncle Alexis Haller, of Woodinville, Wash.: On Friday, December 14, we tragically lost a most beloved member of our family. Noah was a 6-year-old little boy, and he was so dear to all of our hearts. Words cannot express the unfathomable loss we feel. Noah was a wonderful son and a loving brother. He was kind, caring, smart,...
01:54 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Lilly Rosell contemplated keeping her 7-year-old daughter at home on the first day of classes since the Connecticut elementary school massacre, but she ultimately decided, like so many other parents, there was only so much she could do to keep her daughter safe. "I'm panicking here to be honest," Rosell, of Miami, said as she anxiously surveyed her daughter's campus. "It's now about being in the prayer closet a little...
01:22 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Schools in two Connecticut towns were in lockdown on Monday, the first day children returned to class since Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. All schools in Ridgefield, Connecticut, were in lockdown because of a suspicious person who might be armed, police said. In nearby Redding, schools were locked down as a precaution, police said. Ridgefield is about 20 miles (30 km) from Newtown, site of Friday's...
12:14 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Newtown: The small Connecticut town shattered by an act President Barack Obama called "unconscionable evil," holds on Monday the first two of 20 funerals for schoolchildren massacred in their classrooms last week. Meanwhile, schools across the country will reopen their doors to confused and scared children full of questions about why the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting happened - and whether they are safe from the very same danger. Obama, addressing an...
12:57 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Newtown: The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage was carrying an arsenal of hundreds of rounds of especially deadly ammunition - enough to kill just about every student in the school if given enough time, authorities said Sunday, raising the chilling possibility that the bloodbath could have been even worse. Hours later, President Barack Obama told mourners at a vigil that the nation is failing to keep its children safe....
12:03 PM, Dec 17, 2012
The tragic massacre at a Connecticut elementary school has sparked a new debate about gun control in the US. ...
10:15 AM, Dec 17, 2012
US President Barack Obama attended a memorial service for the victims of the Newtown shooting on Monday. ...
09:40 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Newton, Connecticut: At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work in sheltering little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating them as their own. The gunfire on Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School left a toll both unbearable and...
08:27 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Newtown: A worker who turned on the intercom, alerting others in the building that something was very wrong. A custodian who risked his life by running through the halls warning of danger. A clerk who led 18 children on their hands and knees to safety, then gave them paper and crayons to keep them calm and quiet. Out of the ruins of families that lost a precious child, sister or...
07:51 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Newtown: President Barack Obama on Sunday consoled the Connecticut town shattered by the massacre of 20 young schoolchildren, lauding residents' courage in the face of tragedy and saying the United States was not doing enough to protect its children. "Surely we can do better than this," Obama told a packed high school auditorium. The emotional prayer vigil capped a day when worshippers sought solace in churches to mourn the victims...
07:37 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Newtown: The children who survived Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School will not have to return to the scene of the massacre when school reopens later this week and instead will attend classes in a neighboring Connecticut town, Newtown school officials said on Sunday. It remains unclear when the 436 surviving students at Sandy Hook will return to class, but when they do it will be in an unused...
01:57 AM, Dec 17, 2012
In the US, Newtown is still struggling to cope with Friday's shooting, which claimed the lives so several people including many young children. US President Barack Obama is set to attend a memorial service for the dead in the town later Sunday. He will also meet the families of the victims. ...
09:26 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Newtown: Fighting back tears and struggling to catch his breath, the father of a six-year-old gunned down in the school shooting in Connecticut told the world on Saturday about a little girl who loved to draw and was always smiling, and he also reserved surprising words of sympathy for the gunman. Robbie Parker's daughter Emilie was among the 20 children who died on Friday in the one of the worst...
09:37 AM, Dec 16, 2012
