A pregnant teenager has lost her baby and been left in a wheelchair after a tattoo on her breast became infected. Luisa Fernanda, from central Colombia's Casanare Department, fell ill after having the tattoo on her right breast.
A 16-year-old has tragically died after a hairball in her stomach became infected. Jasmine Beever, from Skegness, collapsed in college on 7 September and was sent home to rest. After coming out in "blotches", she was rushed to hospital in an ambulance where doctors fought to keep her alive. She was successfully resuscitated for 15 minutes, but then passed away later that evening.
There’s a hopeful new sign that how we build our cities, and specifically, how good a job we do of building mixed-income neighbourhoods that are open to everyone can play a key role in reducing poverty and promoting equity. New research shows that neighbourhood effects the impact of peers, the local environment, neighbours contribute significantly to success later in life.
In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in West Texas.Until now, most undocumented children being held by federal immigration authorities had been housed in private foster homes or shelters, sleeping two or three to a room.
What is it like to give new hope through a new look? Just ask a Lithia Springs woman who is stitching together wigs for children who have lost or can't grow hair.