The first child to be taken from her parents under the nation's new child protection laws now has a reason to smile - she will be raised by the woman who helped her escape a life of abuse.
Former Australian TV star Robert Hughes is on trial in the Downing Center District Court in Sydney after pleading not guilty to 11 child-sex charges involving girls aged from seven to 15, local media reported on Monday.
A Sydney man has been charged over alleged sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl, New South Wales Police said on Friday.
A nine-year-old Israeli girl was seriously wounded Saturday night during a shooting attack near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
A man who killed a two-year-old girl by throwing her to the ground was sentenced to death by a Beijing court on Wednesday.
A Beijing court on Monday began hearing the homicide case of a man accused of lifting a 34-month-old toddler and hurling her to the ground in July.
A Chinese teenager victim of the Asiana flight 214, which crash landed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, died of multiple injuries consistent with being run over by a fire vehicle, local officials said Friday.
With her abusive father detained after local police came to her rescue, 10-year-old Yang Xian finally has a sense of security. After being transferred from a rural health center to a city hospital, the tiny child surprised doctors with the amount of physical trauma she has endured.
A seven-year-old girl in Beijing who was infected with H7N9 bird flu, the first such case in the Chinese capital, was discharged from hospital Wednesday afternoon, local health authorities announced.
Two men, including a school bus driver, are suspected of raping a junior high school student in northeastern Heilongjiang province. They have been caught by police.