This is a message about tolerance, inclusion, and empathy. These are wonderful values that we all cherish, but we need to put them into practice more often, Mungiu told the audience. Mungiu becomes just the 10th filmmaker to win the Palme d'Or twice. His, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a Romanian abortion drama, won the award in 2007.
In the year to April 2026 there were 106 reported deaths of care leavers, with 91 deaths reported in the 12 months before. The majority of those who died were aged 16 to 21. Although a requirement to report these deaths was introduced in 2023, ministers believe the true figure is probably higher. Labour launched an urgent review into the deaths in April to try to identify where support systems may have failed.
An eight-year-old girl was found unresponsive in a San Jose home that was investigated previously for child neglect and squalid conditions. Sources said a girl and another child in the home were malnourished and got most of their meals at school. San Jose authorities are investigating the case of an eight-year-old girl who is currently on life support after being found unconscious and not breathing in a home on the 1200 block of Lancelot Lane, as Bay Area News Group reports.
"On a beautiful spring day, this senseless act of gun violence took the life of an innocent baby, traumatized a family and shook an entire community," Gonzalez stated. "Little Kaori was killed, and her two-year-old brother was wounded - all because of a decision to settle a dispute with gunfire, with no regard for who might be harmed."
Safe Passage International, a charity working with unaccompanied children and refugees, has been granted permission to launch a judicial review of the decision to halt refugee family reunion after it claimed the suspension was unlawful. Mr Justice Fordham accepted that the suspension should be open to a legal challenge after the court heard that the decision breaches the Home Office's duty to have regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Parents should be involved in the "vast majority" of cases where a child questions their gender, according to new government guidance for all English schools. The legally-binding advice says schools should not initiate steps towards social transitioning - when pupils change their name, pronoun or clothes to reflect their gender identity - and should instead consider carefully what other support a child might need.
Federal agents took the child, Liam Conejo Ramos, from a running car while it was in the family's driveway on Tuesday afternoon, Columbia Heights Public Schools Superintendent Zena Stenvik said during a news conference on Wednesday. The officers then told the child to knock on the door to his home to see if other people were inside, essentially using a five-year-old as bait, Stenvik said.
Santa Clara County has paid $5.5 million to settle a lawsuit over its former chief pediatrician for foster kids, a one-time foster and adoptive parent accused of sexually abusing a boy in his care, according to his lawyer. The settlement agreement between the county and the former foster youth, a Northern California resident now in his 30s, is the first time the county has paid damages to one of Dr. Patrick Clyne's accusers and attorneys say more lawsuits are imminent.
