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Debabiye, Lebanon (CNN) -- A bloody crackdown by Syrian troops sent four children fleeing their hometown, sometimes crawling across the mountainous terrain between Lebanon and Syria, in a frantic effort to get to safety. They made the exodus without their mother and father and became part of...

(CNN) -- Rescue workers were looking for at least a dozen children reported missing following two landslides that buried a Malaysian orphanage, killing at least 16 people and injuring nine others, the nation's official news agency reported Sunday. Rescue workers scoured the area for up to two...

(CNN) -- Bowing to intense international pressure, Japan has taken a step closer to changing its international child custody policies. The Japanese Cabinet on Friday approved a plan that would bring the country's laws in line with the Hague convention on international child abduction, according...

SAN ANTONIO, -- Cameras and bar codes will be used to monitor children in five San Antonio elementary schools to get a true picture of their eating habits, officials say. Funded with a $2 million grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, Dr. Roberto Trevino created the Bienestar school...

An air strike by NATO-led forces killed two children as they were watering fields in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province late on Monday, an Afghan official and lawmaker said. The deaths occurred weeks after tensions between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers were inflamed by...

How do you display a virtual piano on my Mac from my MIDI keyboard? MAYFIELD, Ky. – Three Amish children were swept away and died when the horse-drawn buggy they were in overturned in a creek swollen by heavy rains. Meanwhile, authorities were searching for a fourth child Friday. A married...

A Mother's Dictionary Bottle feeding: An opportunity for Daddy to get up at 2 am too. Defense: What you'd better have around de yard if you're going to let the children play outside. Drooling: How teething babies wash their chins. Dumbwaiter: One who asks if the kids would care to order...

Dictionary for women Argument (ar*gyou*ment) n. A discussion that occurs when you're right, but he just hasn't realized it yet. Airhead (er*hed) n. What a woman intentionally becomes when pulled over by a policeman. Bar-be-que (bar*bi*q) n. You bought the groceries, washed the lettuce...

An Ottawa man who murdered his estranged wife in front of their children in 2008 has been sentenced to life in prison. Demetrios Angelis asphyxiated 42-year-old Lien Li Angelis and rolled her body in a rug before calling police. Angelis and the two children — an eight-year-old girl and a...

Men who have had cancer are at a slightly higher risk of bearing children with congenital problems such as a cleft palate compared to their peers with no history of cancer, according to new research. But the overall risk was low, researchers from Sweden report in the Feb. 8 online edition of...

A Lloydminster man hopes to fill the shoes of his mother — a long-time foster parent in northern Saskatchewan who was killed last month in a highway accident. When Yvette Lafontaine, 60, died Jan. 22 in a crash on Highway 312 just east of Rosthern, she left seven foster children behind. Her...

More than 1,500 people in the predominantly Latino suburb off Pacoima took part in the protest Saturday. -- An Arizona state lawmaker's push to end the guarantee of birthright citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants on Saturday set off a protest hundreds of miles away in...

-- The Arizona state legislator who co-sponsored the latest immigration crackdown proposal -- to end citizenship for U.S.-born kids of illegal immigrants -- told CNN Friday that he hopes the legislation will provoke a lawsuit so that the U.S. Supreme Court "can end the controversy over the true...

Children run back to class following a recess at Mormon Hills school in the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C. More than one in 10 children born in the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C., until recently has been born to a teenage mother, according to statistics filed with a B.C...

The first plural wife from Bountiful, B.C., to testify at a landmark B.C. court case says she and her children have not endured abuse, that her husband supported her through her years of post-secondary education, and that young girls in her commune are no longer required to marry. The woman, a...

In an exclusive interview with CBC News, an Alberta mother is speaking publicly for the first time about the day her two children were killed, allegedly by their father. She is calling for a public inquiry into the deaths after having raised mental-health issues about the father months ago...

More than 50 children were sent to hospital and later discharged after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at a Winnipeg daycare Thursday. Peek-a-Boo Infant Child Care, located in the 3100 block of Portage Avenue, was evacuated just after 11 a.m. CT. Paramedics assessed 54 kids and 19 staff...

-- A top court has banned any corporal punishment in schools in Bangladesh, a country where millions of children are exposed to physical abuse, officials said Thursday. Despite official instructions to teachers on alternative approaches to child discipline, many children continue to live in...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/living/2011/01/08/obrien.adopting.haiti.mattoident - In the middle of a snowstorm nearly a year ago, a planeload of 54 Haitian children landed in Pennsylvania as part of an airlift of orphans stranded by the powerful earthquake that devastated their country. They...

A 35-year-old woman has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with a baby's death after an alleged assault at her home daycare in Mississauga, Ont. Duy-An Nguyen, a 14-month-old girl, died two days after an incident at April's Daycare. The unlicensed private daycare is run by...