Mum worried after call from son's school but can't help laughing when she discovers what he's done.

Oklahoma-based mum, Ladye Hobson recently got a call from her son's school while she was at work. As many parents will know only too well, a call during the day from your child's school can be a very bad sign, so she was a little worried when she answered the phone.

Mother is arrested for allowing her 10-year-old son to get a tatoo.

An Ohio mother who allowed her 10-year-old son to get a tattoo and filmed it for a distressing video which went viral on social media last week has been arrested. Nikki Dickinson, 34, was arrested in Bellefontaine, Ohio, and taken into custody on Friday on charges of child endangering and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

French career criminal who escaped prison in a helicopter has been recaptured.

FRENCH POLICE HAVE arrested a notorious gangster who had been on the run for three months after an audacious Hollywood-style helicopter jailbreak. Dozens of masked police swarmed a public housing estate in the Oise region north of Paris in the early hours, nabbing 46-year-old Redoine Faid along with four other people in a raid on an apartment.

Brexit for children.

The word Brexit means that Britain is leaving, or exiting, the European Union. The British people voted in favour of leaving the EU in June 2016. But the date Britain will actually leave the EU is March 2019.

Thousands take part in Raise the Roof protest.

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE gathered outside the Dáil today in the latest demonstration over the housing crisis. The protest included groups from unions, political parties, community organisations, colleges all across the country and activists involved in the recent Take Back the City movement.Síona Cahill, president of the Union of Students in Ireland, said more than 6,000 students had joined the protest today.