Children as young as three are being trafficked to Wales for sex and drugs by gangs who have tricked or deceived their parents, a report claims.
 
The Children’s Commissioner for Wales has uncovered 32 cases of exploited youngsters
The children are said to be brought in from China, Bangladesh and Nigeria.
Many are described as being victims of […]

The US Federal Reserve has moved to pump $1.2 trillion into the country’s financial system, hoping to spur lending to beat the recession.
Concluding a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday, the central bank said it would buy up to $300bn in longer-term government bonds called treasuries to bring down borrowing costs.
The surprising move to buy its […]

A convicted murderer who has spent almost half his life in prison is expected to be freed by the Appeal Court today after one of the longest miscarriages of justice.
 
DNA evidence has cleared Sean Hodgson of murder ©Southern Daily Echo
Sean Hodgson, 58, was jailed in 1982 for strangling young barmaid Teresa De Simone and leaving […]

 Madagascar’s military has given its backing to Andry Rajoelina, the opposition leader who has declared himself in control of the country.
The military handed power to Rajoelina on Tuesday just hours after Marc Ravalomanana stepped down as president and ceded authority to the armed forces.
Rajoelina, who had been locked in a power struggle with Ravalomanana for […]

Jade Goody has said she hopes she leaves people with lots of laughs to remember her by.
 
Dying Jade says she wants people to celebrate her life
The terminally ill star left hospital last week to go home and spend the time she has left with her family.
“I was knackered after the hour-and-a- half journey back to […]

Madagascar’s president, under mounting pressure from troops who have occupied one of his palaces, has vowed to fight to the death.
Marc Ravalomanana’s spokesman, Andry Ralijaona, said the president had no intention of fleeing.
“The president plans to stay in Madagascar. He said this to the presidential guard, who told him he should be placed elsewhere, and […]

Soccer legend Paul Gascoigne has told for the first time how he “died” three times in rehab - and was revived by medics.
 
Gazza says he is determined to stay clean and sober
The troubled star told Sky News how his heart repeatedly stopped after being crippled by alcoholism.
In an amazingly candid interview with Sky’s Kay Burley […]

Pakistan’s government has announced the reinstatement of Iftikhar Chaudhry, the deposed chief justice, in a bid to defuse the country’s political crisis and end a protest march that was threatening to turn into a violent confrontation.
Yusuf Raza Gilani, the prime minister, said Chaudhry would be reinstated as Pakistan’s supreme court chief justice on March 21, […]

Police believe they have found the body of a mother who went missing from her home more than two months ago.
 
Gillian Merrick went missing in January
Gillian Merrick, 45, has not been seen since she vanished from her home in Oundle, Northamptonshire, on New Year’s Day.
A specialist underwater search team was deployed, as fears grew for […]

The White House has reassured China that its $2 trillion stockpile of US investments are safe, despite the global economic crisis.
Robert Gibbs, a spokesman for Barack Obama, the US president, said on Friday: “There’s no safer investment in the world than in the United States.”
Gibbs was responding to comments by Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister, […]