orphans
Sep 3 2010, Acacio

A Portuguese court will render its verdict Friday in one of the country’s highest profile legal cases, a shocking story of alleged child abuse at a state orphanage that has gripped the nation for over half a decade.

Seven defendants, including a...

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Do you know, 2.9 million people died of AIDS in 2006! And an estimated 39.5 million people are now living with HIV worldwide? Shockingly, AIDS kills some 6,000 people...
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Indian nanny Sandra Samuel holds Moshe Holtzberg, 2, orphan of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife Rivkah, killed in the Mumbai Jewish center attack, in the garden of his relative’s house in Migdal Ha-Emek, northern Israel, Monday, Dec. 8, 2008....