Sherin Mathews, the three-year- old Indian girl whose adoptive father claimed that she choked while drinking milk, was "adjusting well" at her new home in the US but feeding her was becoming a challenge,according to reports submitted to the nodal adoption agency in India. But her case has raised serious questions over the adoption norms and policies at large. Continue Reading..

When workers in a timber factory in South Africa heard a baby crying outside, they went out looking for it. Finally, they found a baby boy that had been buried alive in a shallow grave. After rescuing thebaby from the makeshift grave, they were able to confirm that the baby had been left there to die by his mother three days ago. The 25-year-old mother also works in the timber factory in the town of Paddock, in KwaZulu-Natal Province, eastern South Africa. She confessed to the police that she had buried her baby with sand and timber from the factory. Continue Reading..