MOTHER popularity and MOTHER trends

After he hatched them and kept them incubated, these daffy birds think guesthouse owner Ponce Risco, 50, from Longton, Staffordshire, is their mother and follow him everywhere.

A new mother has told of her agonising decision to sacrifice one of her babies in her womb to save the life of his dying twin.

It's not that I'm not delighted to be a mother. I am. Parenting is a significant part of my life, but it's not the sum total of my being and not something that's part of most adult relationships outside my home.

When May first learned that she had an inoperable brain tumour that would kill her in a few short weeks, she reassured her four devastated children that she’d had a great life.

Her mother is a pop star and used to striking a pose or two. And it appears that little Aoife Belle is following in Una Healy's footsteps and is looking picture perfect at just ten weeks old.

Alexander Monson died after a blow to the head in a police cell on a trip to Kenya. Here, in her first interview, his devastated mother demands answers.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The mother of three young children abandoned in a Portland shed was found by police on Friday, a day after the kids were taken to safety.Authorities did not immediately identify the mother or say why the boy and two girls were left in a shed next to a vacant house in southeast Portland. Lt. Robert King, a police spokesman, said investigators were questioning the mother Friday ...

HEALTH authorities in Mexico City say a five-year-old boy whose mother allegedly gouged out his eyes is expected to live, but has been left completely blind.

A former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department supervisor was sentenced to more than nine years in prison Friday for sexually assaulting and inappropriately searching women while on duty, prosecutors said. The charges against the former Compton station sergeant, Mark Fitzpatrick, stemmed from three separate traffic stops in 2008. One woman, a single mother from Downey, alleged she was pulled ...

WASHINGTON - PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says he holds former President Pervez Musharraf responsible for the murder of his mother Benazir Bhutto, as he himself vowed to play a larger political role in the next elections.‘He (Musharraf) murdered my mother ... I hold him responsible for the murder of my mother’, he said in an interview with CNN on Thursday evening. On another TV ...

It's almost been a year since Beyonce put on a show, but Blue Ivy's mama is ready!! And she wants everyone to see how she's preparing for her first big concert since the birth of her daughter. With this lovely gem of a video, she takes us behind the scenes and into her world before [...]

Donald Trump has come a long way in the 2012 campaign: from maybe-candidate to Obama-birth-certificate agitator, to Mitt Romney endorser and fundraiser. He's holding a joint fundraiser in Las Vegas on Tuesday with Romney and Newt Gingrich, and the Romney campaign is raffling off dinner with Trump and the candidate. But embracing Trump is a risky decision for anyone, as this interview he gave to...

Police arrested the parents of ten-year-old Sobia who was Thursday found dumped on a roadside with severe torture marks on her body, said City Police Officer Kamran Yousuf on Friday. The arrested parents include Lashkar Khan and his wife, step mother to Sobia, the police official told. Two parents were arrested from Banglabad Gakhar Mandi, he added.

WASHINGTON - Pakistan People's Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says he holds former President Pervez Musharraf responsible for the murder of his mother Benazir Bhutto, as he vowed to play a larger political role in the next election. "He (Musharraf) murdered my mother ... I hold him responsible for the murder of my mother," he said in an interview with CNN on Thursday evening. On another ...

Stating that Pervez Musharraf murdered his mother Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal has vowed to play a bigger political role in his homeland Pakistan.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A mother in Mexico has been arrested on suspicion of gouging out the eyes of her 5-year-old son during a ceremony.

Anniina ("Scholar, Writer, Mother, Dreamer. Editor of Luminarium, an online library for English Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance") produced these delicious-looking and awfully lovely illuminated initial cookies: I wanted to share with you some Medieval manuscript cookies I made for my friend and colleague, Risa Bear, creator of Renascence Editions. I chose historiated [...]

Idaho wildlife officials offer $10G reward, say 'good sportsman' wouldn't have shot mother and nursing cub

The health of a South Carolina woman battling a rare flesh-eating bacteria has "slightly improved," a spokeswoman for a Greenville hospital said Thursday.

For Jocelyn Leonard, the pain can be difficult to bear - especially during a week like this....

Jillian Michaels, new mother to two beautiful children, once reportedly told a magazine that she would adopt rather than "do that to my body."

The actress provides a peek at her newborn baby girl while out for a ladies lunch with her mother

Casey Anthony's real-life drama is headed back to TV, and actress Holly Deveaux has the job of portraying the reviled Florida mother who was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter...

George Zimmerman accused a Florida police department of corruption more than a year before he shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, saying at a public forum the agency covered up the beating of a black homeless man by the son of a white officer.

A mother who donated her braindead son's organs to save five strangers has won the respect of millions of Internet users.

Look out, kids. Big Mother is watching. This week, Vodafone starts offering a service called Bemilo that gives parents unprecedented control over how their kids use their cell phones. Bemilo, a £2.95-a-month service (that’s about five bucks), uses a special SIM card that can go in any phone or tablet. Amazingly, and somewhat terrifyingly, parents can log on to a web interface that basically ser...

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Paul Simon's classic Graceland indie artists have teamed up for a music video series of Graceland covers In this video the first from the series Louisiana band Givers offers their rendition of "That Was Your Mother" accompanied by Dickie Landry For Givers the cover...

Kairi Abha Shepherd, now 30, who was adopted from Kolkata when she was only three months old by an American single mother from Utah, has been ordered to be deported to India, a country she has never lived in or visited.

The prosecutor’s office said Wednesday the younger woman was being stabbed with a butcher knife when her mother came to her aid and also was stabbed

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Salem police have identified three children and their mother who died in what is being called a murder-suicide in which the father also died....

A Facebook page and a six minute video tell the story of a 12-year-old girl whose mother died when she was 3 years old, grew up being abused by…

SARGODHA - A mother strangled her daughter to death for honour in Sillanwali here on Wednesday. Police said that a girl namely Ruqayya, 18, daughter of Yousaf, a resident of Sarfraz Colony Sillanwali was married off to a relative sometimes ago. However, she developed extra-marital affairs with a neighbour and eloped with him. She returned home after the intervention of local elders. Owing ...

The mother of two-day-old twins has described the moment they died in her arms after being given a morphine overdose at Stafford Hospital.

These mallard ducklings are feeding in a marsh under the watchful eye of their mother near Coventry, R.I.

Jacquie Heal (pictured) said her mother Pamela Watts has been told she has to pay £10,355 a month to her carehome in Sandford, Somerset, instead of the current £3,543 a month.

Prenatal exposure to air pollution through the mother can be especially serious for asthmic children, says a new study.

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - A mother and her three young children were found dead in a burning house in Salem, Oregon, on Tuesday and police said a man believed to be the children's father, whose body was discovered elsewhere, was the suspected killer.

DOUBLE KILLER John Gallagher handed himself into the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin yesterday having lived in Northern Ireland for many years after absconding from detention.

Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed are accused of killing their 17-year-old daughter Shafilea (pictured) in the family home in Warrington in September, 2003.

A mother and father accused of murdering their daughter physically abused her "every day", her sister tells a court.

The daughter of jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko told the EU parliament in Strasbourg today that more accusations are being levelled against her mother by president Viktor Yanukovich and the regime was making no attempt to address humanitarian abuses despite pressure from the international community.

Greek mother says hospital threatened to keep her baby

"My dad started and ran a landscaping business. He put me to work watering plants for my grandmother and for our house. His mantra was, 'If you don't water it, it's going to die.' That was the job I hated most: pouring water on those darn flowers. But my mother and my grandmother had the most beautiful gardens in town.

Olympic champions Amy Williams and Jason Gardener join expectant mother in carrying the torch on day four.

Breakups do a body good ... especially for Elin Nordegren ... who was flaunting her bikini hardbody just days after ending things with her Tiger Woods rebound guy Jamie Dingman. The Swedish 32-year-old mother of two was hanging out in Miami this…

LA CEIBA, Honduras (AP) -- Lucio Adan Nelson dozed on a riverboat ferrying him home from a visit with his mother when helicopters appeared overhead and started shooting. He and about a dozen other passengers traveling in the middle of the night jumped into the water for cover....

One was a lumber salesman who crippled a 78-year-old woman. Another was driving a toy company’s van when he killed a college sophomore. When a cable company guy rammed a stopped car at 71 mph, a woman and her mother died. A driver in a com­pany car didn’t react when traffic slowed, rear-ending a Honda in a chain-reaction crash that killed a 32-year-old woman. Read full article >>

Time magazine's controversial May21 cover shows a young mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son. Model/mom Jamie Lynn Grumet poses in a standing position, while the little boy is perched on a chair to reach her.

Charlize Theron is one of those gorgeous beauties who tries to convince us that when she was a kid, she was a disgustingly gross creature who cowered under a bench in the playground as brats threw peanut shells at her. (Yes, I'm typing from experience.) Charlize is still trying to convince us of that shit and she said in an interview (via The Sun and Gawker) that she had jaundice as a ch...

If you’ve ever met my mother, you’d understand that reality shows such as Idol aren’t her cup of tea. She’s more of a Coronation Street type gal

21 May 2012 (London, UK ) – Jody K. won a $172,320 progressive jackpot at WinADayCasino.com . For Jody K., a young mother on maternity leave, it couldn't come at any better time. She was pla...

Victor Chernish, 42, allegedly would hit, strangle, tie up his mother who suffered from schizophrenia.

Karuna Devi is shocked and inconsolable. It has been four days since her 17-year-old son, who was the main witness in her gang rape case, was burnt alive in their village in Bihar's Nawada district, yet no arrest has been made so far. "Police officials are behaving as if my son was not burnt alive.

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine says there is no evidence that long-term breastfeeding is harmful to child, mother.

STAR looks to be getting on well with Summer despite recent rap from girl’s mother

The work of the Nurse-Family Partnership and other groups like it bring long term benefits to mother, child and society.

Pregnant women will be given a 'named midwife' to focus on their care before and after they give birth, ministers will promise.

Below is the victim impact statement from Tara McDonald, Tori Stafford’s mother.

A Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself Tuesday called three of the kids who had sought help from a neighbor back to the house before firing the fatal shots, authorities said.

Mother Nature, that fickle mistress, has struck again, slowing down the robust retail sales momentum of the first quarter.

The mothers of Britain's 'mixed families' are ensuring their children learn about their heritage and culture, according to a development project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). So, even if the child's father hails from a minority background, it will still be the mother who is responsible for teaching them about the father's culture.

Protective parent is accompanying the star on the job.

A resident from the settlement of Ufimskiy in the Achinskiy region has been accused of the unpremeditated murder of her own newly born child

‘ONE WAY of putting the referendum that I like is that Brussels and Germany are the mother and father of the EU and the rest of the countries are kids. And some kids spend the money wisely but some, like Ireland, spend it on crazy things.

Brand-new mother Jessica Simpson is launching a line of clothing for moms-to-be.

A 17-year-old Bihar boy, Chintu Kumar, who reportedly saw his mother raped seven years ago died of burn injuries after he was allegedly set on fire by the accused in the case in Nawada district on Sunday. HT reports.

A dispute over water in parched Bundelkhand took a grisly turn when two brothers killed their mother and a younger sibling and set their bodies ablaze on Saturday night.

The Rev. John K. Jenkins Jr., pastor of the First Baptist Church of Glenarden, told his congregation on Sunday that he was “deeply, deeply troubled” by President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, calling it a “strike at the core foundation” of society. “I hate to bring it up on Mother’s Day,” Jenkins said, “but two men can’t be a mother. . . . It’s not healthy for children, and it is no...

First off, let me say that I love you. Always have, always will. Which is kind of odd given that, before the age of two, you chipped my front tooth as well as broke the cartilage in my nose.

MEXICO CITY -- Everybody loves mothers, but Mexicans? Maybe more so. In the annual celebration of the mother cult, Mexico is especially devout, and every year on May 10 (they don’t move the date around to fall on a Sunday), the entire nation stops what it is doing in the afternoon and eats some serious lunch with Mom. Read full article >>

IT'S hard to imagine what could lead a mother to part with such a precious little bundle.

JURY convicts singer Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.

Michael Andrade put out a plea through Tumblr: Please help me find a liver for my dying mother

In an online video for Mother's Day, Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, asks people to join an effort to repeal and prevent passage of Stand Your Ground laws.

William Balfour was convicted Friday of killing the mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew of pop star and award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson.

Born of war, Mother's Day grew to horrify its own mother, whose fight to fix the holiday "cost her everything, financially and physically."

Cable network to follow the lives of the late singer's daughter, mother, brother, sister-in-law and niece.

 Tonya Harding sat down with INSIDE EDITION for an exclusive interview on her new outlook on life after becoming a mother.

A sense of “helplessness and horror,” in the words of one banker, has spread among the tight-knit community of Canadians who work in London’s financial district as details emerge about the death of Jeff Boots’s children.

(Reuters) - Adam Mayes, the fugitive charged with kidnapping two Tennessee girls and suspected of killing their mother and older sister, is dead and the two girls he was holding are alive, the Northeast Mississippi News reported on Thursday, citing Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards.

A suspected rhino poacher has been shot dead in the Kruger National Park, while and two others were arrested for killing a mother and her calf.

GYPSY Taylor got her first look inside the wardrobe as a child, listening to her mother read The Chronicles of Narnia.

CLOSING arguments began in the murder trial for William Balfour, the man accused of killing Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and young nephew.

A search is continuing for a nine-day old baby in Belfast Lough after the child and its mother went overboard shortly after 6pm.

Danell Leyva was an asthmatic toddler when he and his mother fled from Cuba and through South and Central America on their way to the United States nearly 20 years ago. Now Leyva is a U.S. gymnastics champion and perhaps the nation’s greatest threat to win multiple medals this summer at the London Olympics. Read full article >>

POLICE are investigating whether the person who murdered Brisbane mother Allison Baden-Clay had an accomplice. Latest on the case.

This story is from the December 30th 1976 issue of Rolling Stone This is the way the fairy tale begins "Brother took his little sister by the hand and said 'Since our mother died we have not had one happy hour Stepmother beats us every day and when we want...

The strike, which was called in response to a Taliban attack in Sangin district, resulted in the deaths of a mother and five of her children.

“This holy relic accompanied our ancestors throughout the centuries, both in times of peace and in times of war.”

The former Palermo coach has been fired by the Viola after assaulting the 20-year-old Serb, but he maintains that he was the victim of strong provocation on Wednesday.

AFTER years of neglecting her Christian beliefs, the star is reconnecting with her faith in wake of her sex tape scandal

One of the biggest choices an expectant mother faces is how to handle the pain of childbirth. More than 60 per­cent of American women choose relief in the form of an epi­dural, a combination of local anesthetic and narcotic administered into the epidural space surrounding the spinal cord. Although most doctors believe that the injections are safe, a new study suggests that they may increase the...

Graphic novelist follows up success of autobiographical ‘Fun Home’ with ‘Are You My Mother?’

BeClose is a small but interesting start-up in Tysons Corner, Virginia. They make home monitoring systems for the elderly, allowing them to stay at home even when they may be fragile or lack motility. The system consists of a number of motion sensors as well as a weight pad (to see when they're sleeping) and a panic button that notifies the authorities and kin if there's something wrong. The n...

By changing the shape of its wings and tail, the micro aerial vehicle (MAV) can slow itself down and perch on a human hand, just like a bird.

A WOMAN who received investment advice from her son has emerged as the controversial lead claimant in class action.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research suggests that starting breast cancer screening at age 40 might be worthwhile for some women who have a higher-than-average risk of the disease, for example because their mother had cancer.

WHO starred at the Etihad as the mother of all derbies went to the blue half of Manchester?

WHO starred at the Etihad as the mother of all derbies went to the blue half of Manchester?

THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Good evening, everybody.  Good evening.  I could not be more thrilled to be here tonight -- (laughter) -- at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.  This is great crowd.  They’re already laughing.  It’s terrific. Chuck Todd -- love you, brother.  (Laughter.)  I’m delighted to see some of the cast members of Glee are here.  (Laughter.)  And Jimmy Kim...

Hugh Pickens writes "AP reports that when a Delta Airlines flight touched down at Midway International Airport in Chicago, the passengers looked out the window to see the jet surrounded by fire trucks, police cars and ambulances. Health officials came through the door wearing facemasks and other protective gear. As it turns out the bedbugs that infest hotels appear to be the source of red marks...

A weekend of worrying and hoping, time-killing and nerve-shredding unfolds for the followers of Manchester United and City.

Fran McCrodden truly the ‘mother of judo in Ontario’

Bo Guagua, whose mother and father are at the heart of a corruption inquiry, defends himself and calls for privacy.

LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) - The rise of the middle-class Chinese working mother helps explain why Nestle paid nearly $12 billion for Pfizer's baby food business and could leave rivals scrambling to catch up.

"Pray for me and my kids now! They just witnessed their mother and a friend jump me in my room. She's going to jail," tweets Hall of Famer.

A court official says the Oscar-winner was first witness at the trial of a man accused of killing her mother, brother and nephew.

A couple of days ago, in a supposedly civil part of Kolkata, a 30-year-old woman lay harassed, bleeding, bludgeoned in front of her helpless father. She was assaulted and thrashed by their landlord and his politically influential friends. Policemen – casual standers-by to the incident – witnessed the indignity mutely. Beating a woman, stripping her, molesting her and assaulting her is not even ...

Ahead of International Mother Earth Day on Sunday, senior United Nations officials today drew attention to global issues affecting the planet.

BOSTON (AP) -- She is a 63-year-old grandmother known as "Mamie," a former stay-at-home mother of five boys, and the cookie-baking wife of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But do not be fooled: Republicans and Democrats alike see Ann Romney as an effective political weapon....

Let's stop pretending: Presidential campaign rhetoric aside, motherhood is not necessarily the toughest job.President Obama displayed quick damage-control reflexes last week when he called out Democratic pundit Hilary Rosen for claiming that Ann Romney, mother of five, had "never worked a day in her life." It was "the wrong thing to say" and "not something I subscribe to," the president said. H...

by Vijay Kumar Sinha I fail to understand why too much hoopla and hullabaloo explode when Shahrukh Khan is detained, frisked, searched and interrogated by USA internal security agencies. Our senile leaderships neigh just like SRK in such a situation. The USA has not witnessed any terrorist attack after the 9/11 that took place eleven years ago. In contrast, Indians are subject to such attacks...

Incredible.

Maggie Mountford is the tiny star of the latest British Airways TV ad. Here, her mother Elaine tells Frank Barrett all about Maggie's trip of a lifetime at Disney World in Florida.

US President Barack Obama defends Ann Romney, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, saying there is "no tougher job" than being a mother.

An Egyptian court ruled on Wednesday that it would not disqualify the ultraconservative Islamist Hazem Abu Ismail from running in presidential elections at this time. Concerns that the popular Salafist sheikh, one of the race's frontrunners, would be barred from the contest rose upon evidence that Abu Ismail's mother had become a U.S. citizen and applied to vote in Los Angeles toward the end ...

An Argentine mother whose newborn was found alive in a morgue 12 hours after being declared dead has blamed hospital negligence for the mistake.

Can bad mothers and dysfunctional families cause young people to become schizophrenic? We know that, as recently as a generation ago, a large sector of Anglo-American psychiatry and clinical psychology believed that they could. Elite private hospitals offered patients with schizophrenia intensive forms of psychoanalytic therapy designed to uncover the trauma responsible for their suffering. Mot...

Gute Nachrichten für alle Serien-Fans: Jetzt sind die aktuellsten Folgen von "New Girl" und "How I Met Your Mother" auch in Deutschland legal online erhältlich. Das wurde aber auch Zeit

THE West Australian newspaper has had a small victory over mining magnate Gina Rinehart about the disclosure of communication between the newspaper and her children who are embroiled in a bitter family feud with their mother.

El actor de How I Met Your Mother presentará la ceremonia para premiar a lo mejor de Broadway

Showtime's Gallaghers deserve more love -- and so does this underappreciated series

This feeble followup to 2010's godawful Clash of the Titans sucketh the mighty big one Perseus (Sam Worthington) the bastard son of a human mother and the god Zeus (Liam Neeson) has run off to a quiet fishing village to raise his son Helius (John Bell) away from the Z-man's...

Like many in Shanghai, and probably other parts of the country, the lane where my mother was born and where I was born and lived until I was two years old was an old narrow alley.

Basketball intersected with the real world. All Wendy and husband John could do was be proud of both sons. "It was, a bittersweet day."

THE OECD has called for an expansion of Europe’s firewall beyond the €700 billion acceptable to Germany.

The eurozone needs "the mother of all firewalls" if it is to protect the EU's single currency from debt contagion, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - New York-born Harlan Goldstein, known to many foodies as the best Western chef in Hong Kong, can thank his mother for his culinary career.

MULTAN - A woman received severe acid burns when her husband sprinkled acid on her face and body following a domestic dispute here on Sunday night. The aggrieved woman, mother of four, was identified as Shama Bibi, whose condition is stated to be serious in the hospital. Police said that the accused Maqsood, resident of Pul Bararan, used to quarrel with his wife on monetary issues. “ ...

Al-Qaida-inspired shooter's brother and his wife being taken to Paris for questioning; mother released.

The mother of the Frenchman accused of killing seven people in a shooting rampage has been released without charge.

I left my elderly mother at a table, eating lunch. When I returned, she was nowhere to be found.

SMALL PRINT:A MUSICAL interpretation of Carrie recently made its stage debut off-Broadway. This new take on Stephen Kings classic rebrands Carries mother as a tragic anti-hero, not the monstrous religious zealot that appeared in the book or the film.

Zimbabwean writer Tendai Huchu's debut novel, The Hairdresser of Harare, centres on the story of a single mother who falls in love with a gay man.

Finian's Rainbow completed a magical afternoon for trainer Nicky Henderson and jockey Barry Geraghty as he landed the sportingbet.com Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham.

Your tax return contains a mother lode of personal information, and that makes it popular with crooks. A look at some frequent scams.

When winter weather begins to retreat, Mother Nature celebrates with wildflowers.

A woman decides to donate a kidney to her special needs brother, but later discovers her mother needs one too.

VIDEO: ISRAELI goalkeeper takes on Mother Nature and loses - resulting in a hilarious own goal that has to be seen to be believed.

Wired Science readers are again tuning in to watch the surprisingly addictive saga unfold as a pair of eagles hatch and raise their chicks on a live webcam. Last year, millions of people from 184 different countries watched as three eaglets grew. Wired readers formed their own eagle-watching community and collected over 4,400 comments as they watched the drama unfold, alternately reveling in th...

The head of the OECD has said that the eurozone needs to build "the mother of all firewalls" to prevent the crisis from spreading throughout the bloc.

Tom Daley's mother Debbie clutched a red, white and blue Union Jack flag in the crowd as Britain's favourite diver gave his fans a taste of Olympic action to come at a World Cup competition on Thursday.

Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria this morning gave birth to a girl, who is second in line to the throne behind her mother, the Royal Court said.

Rosemarie Colvin, mother of the killed journalist Marie Colvin, has said her daughter was totally committed to what she did.

Gesammelter Untergang - Schneller schlau entführt Sie in die Welt des Wissenswerten.

While walking through a store a few days ago, I heard a mother tell her child that she shouldn’t listen to the music being played on the shop’s stereo. It was Tool.

I suppose it was inevitable that some people would compare Jeremy Lin to Tim Tebow. This is partly because every sports story these days must be compared to Tebow, as well as every non-sports story, and retroactively, every previous sports story. But it is also because Linsanity has temporarily replaced Tebowmania as the can-you-believe-that story that your mother who doesn't watch sports might...

A woman suspected of being the mother of a battered toddler whose plight has gripped India is brought to Delhi for DNA tests and questioning.

Mother Dairy, a subsidiary of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), is keen on expanding its ice cream portfolio and plans to open 7,000 outlets across India over the next two years.|

Having ruled the milk and dairy products market in Delhi and NCR for long, Mother Dairy has now decided to expand presence in other parts of the country within the next 2-3 years.

official Palestinian Authority TV broadcasts greetings to Fogel murderers; killer Hakim Awad’s mother calls him ‘a hero.’

PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - A tense British thriller about a mother deeply entrenched in the IRA and forced to choose between the organization and the family she loves has earned high praise among the foreign films at this week's Sundance Film festival.

Defensive end Dave Tollefson goes through an unusual rite before every Giants game: he calls his mother on the phone for a profanity-laced pep talk.

Die jahrelang erfolgreiche Sitcom hatte als Fernsehfach ausgedient und wurde schon als "totes Genre" gehandelt. Nun ist sie zurück: mit Erfolgsformaten wie "New Girl", "How I met your mother" oder "Stromberg". Die Gründe dafür reichen bis in die Psyche des Publkums hinein.

BOSTON (AP) -- Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17....

I GUESS it began when I was about three years old, standing on a chair, secretly doing the dishes to please my mother when I slipped and hit my head.

PARK RANGER MARGARET ANDERSON was operating a roadblock in Mount Rainier National Park on New Year’s Day to prevent cars without snow chains from proceeding up the mountain. What should have been a routine assignment turned deadly, authorities say, when Benjamin Colton Barnes tried to evade a stop by shooting repeatedly into the side of Ms. Anderson’s patrol car. The barrage killed the 34-year-...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Struggling Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich choked up at a campaign event on Friday, wiping away tears as he discussed his late mother in a display of emotion that was reminiscent of Hillary Clinton's game-changing teary moment in 2008.

A couple thousand years after a small amount of oil burned miraculously for eight days and gave the world Hanukkah, latkes nearly burned down my childhood home. I was six, my sister was five, and our mother was attempting to fry a pan of the potato pancakes when the burner caught fire and the smoke alarm wailed, announcing our imminent doom.My sister and I were bundled up and marched through wa...

CHICHAWATNI (Online) - A woman and her son died when a motorcycle they were riding on rammed into a bus here on National Highway on Monday. According to police, Mohammad Noman, a resident of Chak-176/9L was way to Chak-111/7R on a motorbike along with his mother who were sitting pillion. When they reached near 37/12L suddenly the bike rammed into a bus coming from opposite direction. Resultantl...

For every hit, there are many onscreen bombs that show us what not to do

Technion professor: Project shows that cooperation, rather than competition, is the mother of innovation.

Andy Murray's mother has been appointed captain of Britain's Fed Cup team in its Feb. 1-4 Europe-Africa Group I match against Israel.

South Korean police detain teen suspected of murdering his mother after she allegedly beat him with a golf club to get better school grades

THE mother of 13-year-old Milly Dowler did not sleep for three days after finding out her murdered daughter's voicemail had been hacked.

Mother and baby products retailer Mothercare slumped to a first-half loss and cut its dividend as dire UK trading eclipsed strong growth overseas.

A male muriqui monkey enjoys greater reproductive success if he shares an unusual physical closeness with his mother or if he lives with a sister.

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Penn State students pledged to show support for victims of a child sex abuse scandal at the last home football game of the season on Saturday as a mother of one boy involved said she feared there were many more victims than the eight reported so far.

IMPHAL - Irom hasn’t willingly ingested food or water for 11 years, in protest of a law granting legal immunity to the Indian armed forces for human rights abuses. As the anniversary of her hunger strike nears, her mother imagines what might be.“I’m still waiting for her to come home,” said Shakhi Devi, 78, holding an album of her daughter’s photos. She rarely visits the 39-year-old, the world’...

An Arizona mother has been banned from eight McDonald's restaurants where she repeatedly swabbed play areas for bacteria.

It's near midnight and I'm holed up in a rickety hotel in Proserpine a whistle-stop town on the northeast coast of Australia Yasi a Category 5 hurricane with 200-mile-per-hour winds that's already been dubbed "The Mother of All Catastrophes" by excitable Aussie tabloids is just a few hundred miles offshore...

New words that are creeping into the Chinese language indicate how vibrant the mother tongue of Confucius has become

A one-car crash in Portland, Oregon has taken the life of 38-year-old NetXposure CEO Devin Donnelly. Devin, his mother Jan and sister JillXan are well known in both the domain community and the mainstream business world as all three family members created companies that have been honored in their respective industries.