Police arrested a woman in a Tokyo suburb Wednesday for allegedly attempting to kill her newborn baby by covering him with earth and abandoning him on a riverbank, officers said. The baby boy was found by a resident who lives near the river in Higashimurayama, ...
Ueno Zoo announced the birth of its first giant panda in five years on Monday. Shin Shin, 11, gave birth to a cub at 11:52 a.m., and the mother was confirmed to be holding the cub later in the day, said Mikako Kaneko, a section ...
A 16-year-old high school student from Nagoya was arrested Thursday for allegedly leaving the body of her newborn child unattended at home around May 10, police said. The suspect, whose name has not been disclosed because she is a minor, turned herself in the previous ...
About 13 minutes after the magnitude-7.3 quake hit Kyushu early Saturday morning, a baby girl was born in a hospital in the city of Kumamoto. As the hospital building swayed back and forth during aftershocks, a midwife leaned over the mother to protect her, while ...
A homeless woman gave birth on a cardboard box just outside St. Peter's Square early on Wednesday in near-freezing temperatures and later received an offer of one year's hospitality in a Vatican institution. Police said the 35-year-old Romanian woman had gone into labor at about ...
Police arrested a 24-year-old man in Kumamoto Prefecture on Sunday on suspicion of killing a 3-month-old boy with powerful kakuseizai stimulant, police officials said. The suspect, Tensho Yoshimura, allegedly gave the drug to the baby, Yushin Nishida, on Sept. 4 at a so-called love hotel ...
A Colombian woman who survived a plane crash with her months-old baby, drinking coconut water to stay alive, was rescued after four days lost in the jungle. Maria Nelly Murillo and her child were aboard a twin-engine Cessna that crashed Saturday in a remote area ...
Detectives trying to determine who abducted a 3-week-old infant after shooting her parents and uncle at a Southern California home have few clues and are asking for the public's help, officials said Monday. The baby, a 10-pound (4.5-kg) girl named Eliza Delacruz, was found dead ...
Miyagi Prefecture Police said they arrested a 31-year-old woman from Aoba Ward, Sendai, on Tuesday on suspicion of killing her 4-month-old daughter. Police said Yumi Suzuki suffocated her daughter, Ayaka, at their home by covering her mouth and nose with a blanket. Suzuki reportedly said she ...
Police in Australia were questioning a 20-year-old woman whose newborn baby was found Sunday abandoned in a drain near a Sydney freeway. The baby, who is only a few days old, was in a serious but stable condition in Sydney's Westmead Children's Hospital, police said ...
Baby showers, a mainly American tradition of holding special parties for expectant mothers to celebrate the imminent arrival of their babies, are gradually gaining popularity in Japan. Tokyo Baby Cafe, a cafe near Tokyo's Omotesando boulevard with an indoor playroom for babies and toddlers, launched ...
The National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo said Friday it has successfully transplanted liver cells into a baby in a national first. "We have safely conducted an operation that could develop into regenerative medicine using embryo-stem or induced pluripotent stem cells," said ...
