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British Teens Get Booze in Return for STD Testing

British health officials are trading alcohol for STD tests with children as young as 16. Credit: jesus leon, Flickr
Health officials desperate to stem the rising tide of sexually transmitted diseases among British youth are bribing kids as young ...

British Soccer Star Has Ultrasound Party

Coleen and Wayne Rooney shared their ultrasound with friends and family. Credit: X17online
For most, childbirth and everything leading up to it is a private affair. For others, it's a public display of affection. Wayne and Coleen Rooney, a ...

Some Baby Foods are Junk Says Consumer Group

Babies love cookies, but are they a healthy choice?. Image: sxc.hu
Some baby foods might be as fatty as a cheeseburger, a British consumer group recently found, or contain as much sugar as a cookie. The Children's Food Campaign surveyed more than ...

Twin Saves Sister Through Telepathy

Upon receiving an email with the subject line "Fwd: Twin Saves Sister With Telepathy - For Realz!" our first reaction was "HOAX". In this case, though, the story is true. At least according to London's "Daily Mirror." Here's the scoop: 15-year-old ...

Teen Mother Told To Keep Quiet About Other Boys

The girlfriend of underage dad Alfie Patten, Chantelle Stedman, was instructed by her own mother to tell the British press that the 13-year-old schoolboy was the father of her new baby, despite the fact that this might not be true, according to The ...

Gillian Anderson Applauds Working Moms

Being a working mom is hard. Gillian Anderson should know -- the well-known actress of television's X-Files is also mother of two (and is expecting a third). Anderson admits to using help with the kids to manage it all, and says she would struggle to ...

Does exercise help pregnant women stop smoking?

One would think the obvious answer to that question is yes. One would surmise that exercise would help anyone stop smoking, right? After all, you're striving to do something healthy, sort of the opposite of smoking, by getting out there and running ...

Elle MacPherson lets son ride on handlebars

(Think that's bad? See which celebs should never have kids) Supermodel Elle MacPherson is in trouble with the Royal Prevention of Accidents for letting her son ride on the handlebars of her bike. The model was spotted in London with son Aurelius Cy ...

Do clumsy kids make obese adults?

I was pretty much a klutz growing up. In fact, I still am. But I'm not obese (although in the last two months of my pregnancy I do feel rather large!). Is there any real connection between the two? Perhaps so, if we're to believe the findings of ...

Gordon Ramsay has interesting advice on getting kids to eat vegetables

I'm sure by now you've heard of Gordon Ramsay. He's the British head chef and star of television's reality show "Hell's Kitchen." He's also something of a world-class chef, from what I understood. From what I understand now, he's also a father. And ...

A stroller for the stars

Oh, the strollers we've owned! There was our first -- big and bulky, with lots of padding all over. There were the $10 umbrella strollers -- light and small and cheap, picked up in an emergency. I can't forget the big umbrella stroller -- tall enough ...

Ballet for pregnant women

Finally!--I've found a part-time job to help rake in some extra cash for when baby number two shows up and demands diapers! I'm pregnant, and I could do ballet--who knew? A British artistic director thinks that pregnant women are far from the ...

Emma Thompson's son may be deported

Critically acclaimed actress Emma Thompson has waged a legal battle to keep her adopted son from being deported. She and her husband, Greg Wise, "informally" adopted twenty-one year-old Tindyebwa Agaba, a Rwandan refugee, after meeting him at a ...

Paula Radcliffe runs through pregnancy

Paula Radcliffe is a British elite runner who holds the world record in the women's marathon. She is awesome and a force to be reckoned with. Her job, and her life, is running. Her husband is her running manager. When Paula became pregnant, running ...

$40,000 reward to stop female circumcision in Britain

More common in Africa and the Middle East, the practice of removing a young girl's clitoris and other parts of her genitalia is spreading to other countries as immigrants make their way west. In Britain, it has become such a problem that the ...

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