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Widespread panic has erupted across Afghanistan since the Taliban entered the capital on Sunday. The extreme Islamic group seized the presidential palace after the Government in Afghanistan collapsed last weekend. People are now gravely concerned for their safety and fear for their lives as the military group takes over for the first time in almost […]

5 years ago

My Norwegian friends could not believe it when I told them what I paid for childcare here in Ireland. When my eldest was a toddler, we lived in my hometown of Oslo. For her to attend creche there, what I paid for her full-time place worked out at around €300 per month. Fast forward a […]

5 years ago

Simon Cowell’s four-year-old son dressed up as his famous father and is in charge of his parents for World Children’s Day. Eric Cowell is giving us all a bit of a chuckle on a dreary Tuesday as he’s dressed up exactly like his dad. The four-year-old oozed self-confidence in photos which emerged today in which […]

8 years ago

One fifth of children in “high income” countries are never breastfed. According to a new report published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 21 percent of infants in wealthy countries are “missing out” on the benefits of early breastfeeding. This compares to four percent of children in low income […]

8 years ago

7,000 newborn babies die every day, according to a new report published by Unicef. The mortality rate of newborns is still “alarmingly high” across the world, despite many countries in the first world having high survival rates. The report showed that Pakistan has the highest infant mortality rate, with every 1 in 22 newborns dying within […]

9 years ago

Unicef’s latest report has some shocking results.

9 years ago