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Murdered Florida girl Caylee Anthony's father might have been a co-worker her mother had a one-night stand with, according to police documents released this week.

Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life in a psychiatric institution on Thursday for locking up and raping his daughter over 24 years, fathering seven children with her, and causing the death of an infant son.

A kindergarten teacher in Connecticut has been arrested for allegedly forcing a 5-year-old boy to eat food the child had thrown ...

An Austrian man who fathered seven children with a daughter he locked in a cellar pleaded guilty Monday to rape and incest but denied murder in connection with the death of a newborn boy who died underground.

NEARLY two million children die of diarrhoea each year, even though treating the ailment is relatively simple and "almost miraculous", the World Health Organisation said today.

A 7-year-old Long Island girl was released from a New York hospital Tuesday, more than a month after surgeons removed six of her vital organs to tackle a life-threatening tumor.

Good student. Starting quarterback. Aspiring hunter. By most accounts, 11-year-old Jordan Brown was a typical boy in his rural Pennsylvania community, albeit raised mostly by his father after his mother gave him up.

Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman became unhinged with fear last year when she thought she had lost one of her children, repeatedly telling an emergency dispatcher, 'Oh God, I'm going to kill myself.'

Swimming lessons aren't just fun and games for toddlers. They also prevent kids from drowning, according to a study published today in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Nearly 200,000 children a year die from drowning,...

A new study finds that impulsive kindergarten kids are more likely to be placing bets by the time they're in sixth grade. Canadian researchers studied 163 kindergarteners in 1999, asking teachers to note whether the youngsters were inattentive, easily distracted...