José Carlos Cueto BBC News Mundo Colombia correspondent AFP / Getty Images The recruitment of children is one of the most serious challenges remaining in the armed conflict in Colombia When Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot in the head on 7 June, it shocked the international community. After years of...
Getty Images Adam al-Najjar, pictured with his cousin, is the only one of his siblings to have survived an Israeli strike on his family’s home A Palestinian doctor whose nine children and husband were killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza last month is being evacuated to Italy with her only surviving child. Dr...
Vanessa Clarke Education reporter Getty Images Play experts want to ban “no ball games” signs and protect playtime during school breaks, to reduce the time children spend on screens. They are being forced “indoors on to digital devices”, according to the Raising the Nation Play Commission, whose year-long inquiry calls for an end to “anti-play...
Josh Sandiford BBC News, West Midlands West Midlands Police Daniel Clarke was jailed in May for abusing six vulnerable young people Parents are demanding answers over how a paedophile was able to abuse potentially dozens of disabled and special educational needs children while working as a teaching assistant. Daniel Clarke may have targeted “well over...
The government is considering introducing tougher online safety measures to limit the amount of time children can spend on social media, the BBC understands. Proposals include a two-hour cap on the use of individual social media apps and a 22:00 curfew, as first reported by the Sunday People and the Mirror. Appearing on the BBC’s...
An Australian bouncy castle operator at the centre of a tragedy in 2021 that killed six children and seriously injured three has been cleared of breaching safety laws. A court found Rosemary Anne Gamble, who runs the business Taz-Zorb, not guilty, ruling that the incident was “due to an unprecedented weather system” that was “impossible...
Getty Images Dr Hamdi al-Najjar – pictured here being visited by his niece – died from his wounds on Saturday, health officials said A Palestinian doctor whose children were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on 23 May has died from injuries sustained in the same attack, health officials say. Dr Hamdi al-Najjar...
Meghan Owen Work & Money Correspondent, BBC London BBC Shanice Aird, 29, will soon be homeless after rejecting a flat an hour away from her children’s school “I spent all of half-term looking for somewhere to live,” says mother-of-three Shanice Aird. The 29-year-old from west London rejected her council’s most recent temporary accommodation offer “an...
A former policeman from Exeter has admitted possessing indecent images of children more than three years after he was arrested. John Bramwell, 55, of Causey Gardens, pleaded guilty to three charges of possessing images ranging from category A – the most severe – to category C. Exeter Crown Court heard Bramwell, a former sergeant in...
Kate Whannel Political reporter Watch: BBC asks Nigel Farage if Reform UK’s “numbers add up” to pay for policy plans Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said he wants to make it easier for people to have children, as he confirmed his party would back more generous tax breaks for married people and scrap the...
Getty Images Dr Alaa al-Najjar (2nd L) at her husband’s bedside in Nasser hospital The husband of a Palestinian doctor in Gaza whose children were killed in an Israeli strike on Friday remains in critical condition, according to the hospital treating him. Hamdi al-Najjar’s “life remains in danger”, Dr Milena Angelova-Chee, a Bulgarian doctor working...
Getty Images Civil defence teams carry a body after the strike in Khan Younis An Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her 10 children, the hospital where she works in the city of Khan Younis says. Nasser hospital said one of Dr Alaa al-Najjar’s children and...
We speak with Dr. Victoria Rose, a British plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has been on three medical missions to Gaza since the start of Israel’s war on the territory. She joins us from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where she’s been treating patients for over a week, and describes horrific injuries amid Israel’s ongoing...
A British national has been arrested in Namibia for allegedly sexually molesting minors and taking nude photographs of them. Douglas Robert Brook is also accused of touching the children inappropriately while on a holiday in central Namibia. Police said the suspect targeted young boys and girls from the indigenous San community in the central Otjozondjupa...
“Give me some,” 6-year-old Ismail said while waiting for food in Gaza As crowds gathered at a food distribution point in northern Gaza, six-year-old Ismail Abu Odeh fought his way to the front. “Give me some,” he called out. His bowl was filled with lentils, but as he made his way back, it was knocked...