Ex-Chinese Minister jailed for graft

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Ex-Chinese Minister jailed for graft
BEIJING: A former Cabinet Minister was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison in China’s highest-level corruption case since a deputy chairman of Parliament was executed in 2001. A Beijing court convicted Tian Fengshan, the former Minister of Land and Resources, of taking 4.4 million [...]

Italians “dumping grandparents”

Barbara McMahon— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
The number of Italian grandparents living alone because their families do not want them is increasing.
ITALY’S IMAGE as a family-centred society has taken a knock with the revelation that thousands of grandparents spent a lonely Christmas in hospital because their families did not want them at [...]