Around half of the school-goers in the country have encountered cyberbullying, global mobile phone giant Telenor yesterday said.

For many struggling Lalmonirhat families, relatively lucrative tobacco farming appears to be a blessing. But cultivating the crop brings significant health consequences. Worse still, with children commonly engaged in tending fields, the health of many youngsters is compromised.

The bodies of about 800 children aged under six have been unearthed by archaeologists ahead of the construction of a road in Lancashire.

A Dhaka court has today relieved four members of non-profit organisation Adamya Bangladesh from charges of human trafficking placed against them.

More than a decade after playing a leading role in uncovering the health risks to players in the National Football League, Bennet Omalu hopes his research will lead to a ban on children playing high-impact sports.

A lot of children who use the Internet are being exposed to harmful materials and there has to be proper monitoring to ensure safety of children as well as the state.

Vtech, a company which specialises in electronic toys and educational material for children, has had its app store database, Learning Lodge, hacked.

If you want to have fun with the kids but can’t make time to go to the big amusement parks because they are too far away from the city, here’s the news: they have opened a big park in Uttara with lots of exciting rides.

Fourteen-year-old Aziza Rahimzada is trying to help her impoverished community by offering classes to children.

A Sylhet court will deliver verdict in 13-year-old Sheikh Md Samiul Alam Rajon killing case on November 8. Metropolitan Session Judge Akbar Hossain Mridha fixed the date, our Moulvibazar correspondent reports quoting Public Prosecutor Mafur Ali.

At the age of just 14, Afghan rights activist Aziza Rahimzada has already surmounted legal hurdles preventing 25,000 refugee children from attending school.

Sweden has reacted with shock to the killing of a teacher and pupil at a school in the west of the country, near Gothenburg, by a sword-wielding man.

A mother always enjoys spending time with her children. But learning something together is double the fun, especially if it is something interactive and hands-on like the martial arts Taekwando, the art of Korean self-defence.

Thirteen people, including three children, were killed on Saturday and ten others injured when a mini-truck carrying a marriage party collided with a bus at Andhra Pradesh.

A four-year-old boy in the Chinese city of Chongqing has died after becoming wedged under an escalator handrail at a subway station.

The badly decomposed bodies of two children were found washed up on the Greek island of Kos on Sunday, the latest victims of a crisis that has seen 630,000 people enter the EU illegally this year.

Singer Shakira, who has two sons, says that it is not easy to be a mother. She calls it the most difficult thing she has ever done in life.

Some of the biggest names in music and politics from Beyonce to European prime ministers rallied in a concert aimed at mobilizing action to eradicate extreme poverty.

The case of a three-year-old girl in the US who developed type 2 diabetes has driven doctors to raise fresh concerns about diet in childhood.

Computers do not noticeably improve school pupils' academic results and can even hamper performance.