Breakups hit diabetic kids
Thursday September 18 2008
International research undertaken at Trinity College, Dublin found that children of parents who live apart had poorer diabetes control.
Anna Clarke, health promotion and research manager for the Diabetes Federation of Ireland, said that diabetes needed careful management of blood sugar levels.
"When there is a lack of parental supervision, the control and management of diabetes is not good."
About 3,000 children in this country suffer from diabetes.
12 more held in milk scandal
Police arrested 12 more people today as China expanded a crackdown in a scandal involving tainted milk powder that has killed three babies and sickened more than 6,200 others.
Suppliers to the dairy companies are believed to have added the banned chemical melamine, to watered-down milk to make it appear higher in protein.
Shijiazhuang, Hebei's capital, is the headquarters of Sanlu Group Co, the Chinese dairy whose milk powder has been linked to most of the illnesses.
'Punishers' star punished
Actor Thomas Jane, star of last year's movie The Mist and 2004's The Punisher, was sentenced to a year's probation, fined and ordered to attend alcohol abuse classes after pleading no contest to a drink-driving charge.
He was clocked doing 120mph in a Maserati, a court in California, heard. Jane, 39, was not in court.
Karadzic faces new charges
United Nations prosecutors plan to file a new indictment against Radovan Karadzic to update the eight-year-old charges against the former Bosnian Serb leader.
Prosecutor Alan Tieger told a Yugoslav war crimes tribunal hearing at The Hague in the Netherlands yesterday that he would file a motion seeking permission to update Karadzic's 11-count indictment by Monday.
Karadzic, 63, faces genocide charges for allegedly masterminding atrocities, in Srebrenica and Sarajevo in 1995.
- Claire Murphy
