It’s been suggested women and children were not given priority for lifeboats when the Costa Concordia capsized. But is this a real rule for evacuations?
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Is ‘women and children first’ a real rule?
Six children were among seven civilians killed in a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, Afghan officials said.
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Six Afghan Children Are Killed in NATO Airstrike
More than one in three young families with children were living in poverty last year, according to an analysis of census data.
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2010 Data Show Surge In Poor Young Families
The U.S. has estimated that one in 100 children has autism, but a new study from Korea shows the rate could be much higher: One in 38 children were found to have autism after an intensive study in the middle-class South Korean city of Goyang….
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New Study Finds Higher Rate of Autism
NEWBURGH, N.Y. — A woman who had just been involved in a domestic dispute loaded her four children into a minivan Tuesday night before letting one out and driving the rest of them into the Hudson River, firefighters said. The woman and three young children were killed.
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Mom drives van into NY river after domestic spat, killing herself, 3 kids; 1 son let out first
The room where the children had been trapped was covered in feces and urine, and the children were naked, police said.
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Va. couple charged for allegedly keeping children in room sealed by drywall
Seven children died in a fire at a Pennsylvania farmhouse Tuesday while their mother milked cows and their father took a nap in a milk-delivery truck. The children were aged seven months to 11 years old. One child, who survived, smelled smoke and ran…
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Farmhouse Fire Kills Seven Kids
Four children were swept away by a flooded creek in Kentucky when their family’s horse-drawn carriage capsized. Three bodies have been recovered and the search continues for the fourth. Six children were traveling with their Amish mother in a carriage…
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Three Amish Children Dead, One Missing
A search warrant filed in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday says a mother was unconscious and wearing a bloody robe and her two deceased children were covered in blankets when police arrived.
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Cops: Fla. mom covered teens’ bodies
A father who was extradited from Spain after his children were found dead has been found guilty of child sex offences.
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TV ‘psychic’ guilty of child sex offences
New concerns have been raised about the treatment migrant workers receive in the UK after seven Romanian children were found working illegally in freezing conditions on a farm in Worcestershire.
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Migrant worker treatment concerns
Schools and businesses are refusing to open in the Nigerian town of Aba, fearing another attack after 15 children were kidnapped.
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Nigerian kidnap town shuts down
More than 60 children were involved a collision between two school buses in south Wales, say police.
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Children hurt in school bus crash
Police investigating a bomb attack in Lurgan in which three children were injured have arrested three men.
At least 17 children were killed in northern India on Wednesday when the roof of a private school collapsed, a disaster management official said.
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17 children die in India roof collapse
Mom drives van into NY river after domestic spat, killing herself, 3 kids; 1 son let out first
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