Topic: Missing Children

Madeleine McCann parents 'violated' by UK press

The parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann told an inquiry into press standards Wednesday that they felt "violated" by British tabloid newspapers which covered her disappearance in Portugal.Newspapers questioned Kate and Gerry McCann's innocence based on flimsy facts and suggested they may ...

Tracing Sri Lanka's missing children

Two and a half years after the end of Sri Lanka's bloody ethnic conflict, hundreds of families displaced by the war are still engaged in a fraught, exhausting search for missing children.Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians were caught up in ...

Actor Hugh Grant to speak at press inquiry

Actor Hugh Grant and the parents of a murdered schoolgirl whose phone was hacked by the News of the World tabloid newspaper will give evidence on Monday to an inquiry into the standards of the British press.Milly Dowler's parents will tell a ...
A lawyer told an inquiry into British media standards Wednesday the entire press was in the dock, and the problems went beyond the News of the World phone-hacking scandal that sparked the probe.David Sherborne listed a string of well-known figures, including Harry ...

J.K. Rowling granted special status in press inquiry

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann and actor Hugh Grant have been granted special status in an inquiry into media ethics and practices, the probe said Wednesday.They are among 46 "core participants" who will be able ...

J.K. Rowling given role in UK press inquiry

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann and actor Hugh Grant have been granted special status in a British inquiry into media ethics and practices, the probe said Wednesday.They are among 46 "core participants" who will be ...

New York boy, 8, found slain, butchered

A man was arrested Wednesday after confessing to killing and dismembering a missing 8-year-old boy in what the mayor called a "stunning shock" to New York City.Levi Aron, 35, admitted to killing the boy, Leiby Kletzky, after being arrested early Wednesday following ...
The parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann on Thursday urged Prime Minister David Cameron to order a "comprehensive review" of the information surrounding their daughter's disappearance.Kate and Gerry McCann wrote in a letter to The Sun that it was "not right that ...

I wanted to die: Madeleine McCann's mother

Four years after toddler Madeleine McCann vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal, her mother describes in a book how she believes the abductor was tipped off about the family's movements.Kate McCann reveals she thinks the case was sparked by a comment ...

Maddie mother speaks of 'endless bad dream'

The mother of missing girl Madeleine McCann described how she was haunted by harrowing visions of her daughter and was stuck in an "endless bad dream" in extracts from a new book printed Sunday.Proceeds from Kate McCann's account, "Madeleine", will go towards ...
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