Schoolgirl dies after a fight with classmate

CALIFORNIA: An elementary school student died after a fight with a classmate. The incident occured after school ended on Friday, reports KTLA.com.

The two fifth grade students were involved in an altercation over a boy, according to family members and eye witnesses who watched the tragic incident unfold in an alley next to school.

The fight barely lasted for a minute. However, the girl started complaining of a headache soon after she reached home. The concerned parent took her daughter to the hospital where she underwent emergency surgery. She was listed as critical and she passed away in the night.

The girl's family and friends are in a state of shock and the cause of her death has been not been determined yet.

Infants left screaming in terror

EGYPT: Watching a 'baby yoga' teacher flinging babies as young as two weeks old over her head have a shocking effect. Lena Fokina literally swings babies around her body, up and down, and back and forth.

The 51-year-old who holds the babies by their ankles and wrists and flips them all around her, hopes to take her wacky therapies to the UK, reports Daily Mail. The therapist says she has been practising this form of 'yoga', if it can be called that, for three decades. She claims swinging babies around helps their development.

As Lena somersaults the babies at a seminar called "Parenting the Deliberate Way" in Dahab, Egypt, viewers witness some babies throwing up while the Russian dangles them for long moments from their arms or ankles.

Some websites have refused to poast the video or images of the baby yoga teacher in action as they fear that it might glorify or encourage child abuse.

According to Lena, baby yoga was first practiced by ancient African tribes, said the daily. However, her kind of therapy that involves swinging a baby in all different ways are sure to rock most mamas’ minds.

Paediatricians are horrified at the footage of her “technique”. Generally, doctors warn parents of infants that jerky movements on the very young can lead to brain bleeding, retinal hemorrhaging and brain swelling  - commonly known as Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS). However, Lena has been known to tell clients it is 'harmless even for newborn babies, as long as a child is eased into the movements gradually', the paper said.

Cruise passengers robbed at knifepoint

MEXICO: Nearly 24 cruise ship passengers were robbed at knifepoint during a leisure trip to Mexico.

The group was returing after attending a carnival inland when armed robbers stopped their bus and relieved them of their valuables, according to KTLA.com. Fortunately, no one was injured.

The cruise line has apologised to the victims and has helped out those affected to find their travelling papers and other identification. The liner has also reimbursed the guests for any lost valuables.

Due to mounting concern over the lack of security in Mexico, US State Department has also issued a travel advisory. The tour has also been suspended.

Third-grader shot at in school

WASHINGTON: Girl, 8, is in critical condition after she received gunshot injuries in her stomach at school. The third grader underwent second surgery on Friday, accoring to KTLA.com.

The girl was shot at accidentally by her classmate, who is currently out on bail. She was injured critically when a gun hidden in her classmate's backpack went off suddenly.

The 9-year-old boy was charged with third-degree assault and one count of unlawful firearm possession and one count of possession of a firearm on school property, said the website. The elementary school student's bail was set at $50,000.

The victim's organs were severely damaged in the accident and she will have to undergo additional surgeries. The bullet is still lodged near her spinal chord and doctors may leave it there.

RFK son accused of kicking and shoving nurses at NY hospital

NEW YORK: A son of Robert F. Kennedy is facing misdemeanor charges after he struggled with nurses who tried to stop him from carrying his newborn son out of the maternity ward at a hospital near New York City.

Douglas Kennedy said he was trying to take the baby out of Northern Westchester Hospital for a quick walk when a group of nurses who thought the infant should remain indoors tried to stop him.

Security video obtained by WNBC-TV shows that the nurses stopped Kennedy from using an elevator, then tried to block him from using a stairwell.

The two sides disagree about what happened during the struggle. Kennedy said one of the nurses tried to snatch the child from his arms. The nurse, Cari Maleman Luciano, told police she was only trying to steady the "violent shaking" of the baby.

One nurse said Kennedy twisted her arm. Another said he kicked her in the pelvis. The security video shows a woman falling to the floor. Kennedy was eventually stopped from leaving the hospital by security officers.

The altercation happened Jan. 7. Mount Kisco police arrested Kennedy on Thursday. He was charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of a child, both misdemeanors.

Kennedy and his wife, Molly, said in a statement released through a publicist that the charges were "absurd."

"It is sickening to think that our simple desire to take our son outside for fresh air has been warped into a charge of child endangerment," they said. "The nurse had no right to attempt to grab our child out of his father's arms."

The couple said they hoped Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore would conclude that she had made "a grave error in making a crime out of a father protecting his baby."

An emergency room doctor at the hospital who was accompanying Kennedy when the altercation happened said in a statement that the nurses were "the only aggressors."

"Then and now I felt that Douglas would not be putting his healthy child at risk or danger by taking him for a quick walk outside," said Dr. Timonthy Haydock, who said he has been a friend of the Kennedys for decades. "To charge Mr. Kennedy with a crime is simply incomprehensible to me."

Kennedy is a reporter for Fox News and the 10th child of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy.

Man killed by dogs after spraying water on them

Guard dogs mauled an Indonesian farmer to death in Saudi Arabia after he tried to joke with them by spraying them with water at their house where he works.

A Filipina housemaid told police she saw the Wolfdogs attacking and killing the 55-year-old man just after he used a water pipe to splash them with water.

Their Arab owner said his farmer had done this before but he managed to restrain the dogs from attacking the man.

“I warned him before not to spray water at the dogs as this will madden them and push them to attack…he didn’t listen,” the Saudi Arabic language daily 'Al Watan' said in a report from the western Red Sea port of Jeddah. 

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