BBC News: Children's poll critical of Blair
--Tony Blair is doing a bad job as prime minister and was wrong to take Britain to war in Iraq, according to a poll of schoolchildren.

News.com.au: Teen trekked over 20km to rescue crash victim
--"The 16-year-old last night told the Northern Territory News of his ordeal but he did not want to be named, saying: "Anyone who was in the same position would have done what I did.""

Reuters: Iraq: Armed conflict depriving youth of education, report says
--"The UK-based charity organisation Save the Children has launched a global report exposing the devastating consequences of armed conflict on education in 30 countries. As the only country in the Middle East assessed, Iraq is singled out as one of the most recent problem areas."

allAfrica.com: Ghana: Combating Child Trafficking - the Role of MDA's And Security Agencies
--"Admittedly, Ghana has demonstrated its realisation of the need for the special attention children require, and it is perhaps against this backdrop that she was the first country to rectify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child of November 20, 1989, which came into force in September, 1990."

Reuters: Immigrant children more likely to study math: survey
--"Children with at least one parent born outside the United States are more likely to study math and physical sciences in college, driven by the aim of securing a well-paid job, according to a study released on Thursday."

The Mercury News: AIDS affects children too, or have we forgotten that?
--"In all the bluster of the recent International AIDS Conference in Toronto, where did the children go? It was stunning how little attention was paid to them, with hardly a mention of children in all the talk about how to contain the epidemic and treat those in need."

The Register: Teachers break silence on fingerprinting children
--"The National Union of Teachers has said that schools should not fingerprint children without the consent of parents."

Mail & Guardian: Youth leaders plan to protest against Mugabe
--"Youth leaders barred from entering Zimbabwe this week plan to protest against President Robert Mugabe whenever he visits South Africa."

Guardian Unlimited: So, our 'toxic' culture is bad for children? In the good old days we just had to endure days of boredom and beatings
--"At any rate, the glimpse of this wretched girl seems to have plunged Palmer into despair. "Poor child," she laments. "Poor parents. Poor western civilisation - indeed the whole of the developed world - which now teems with miserable little creatures, male and female, toddlers to pre-teens.""