Fast food in children's hospitals a bad lesson: study
Reuters.uk - UK
-- McDonald's, which does provide financial support to some of the hospitals surveyed and operates several homes for ill children, was the prevalent restaurant in hospitals studied.

Pediatricians call for less advertising to children
USA Today - USA
--Pediatricians should lobby for a ban or severe curtailment on widespread school-based ads, and Congress should prohibit commercials for "junk food" on TV shows watched mostly by young children, the American Academy of Pediatrics says Monday.

Public supports children's rights referendum plan
Irish Times - Ireland
--There is overwhelming support for the Taoiseach's plan to hold a referendum to enshrine the rights of children in the Constitution, according to the findings of the Irish Times TNS mrbi opinion poll.

Group wins NW youth radio licence
Unison.ie - Bray,Ireland
-- THE North-West of the country will have a new youth radio station within a year, after recently-formed consortium iRadio was awarded the licence yesterday.

Rhymes 'boost child development'
BBC News - UK
--Parents who do not read and sing nursery rhymes to their young children are to be helped to do so, says the children's minister Beverley Hughes.

Children's film fest kicks off in Delhi
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
--Children in the national capital are in for a special treat as the five-day Golden Jubilee Film Festival, where 29 films for kids would be screened, was inaugurated Tuesday.

Burger King to end TV child ads
BBC News - UK
--Fast food chain Burger King has revealed plans to stop making UK television adverts aimed at children.

Contests, fun & frolic mark Children's Day functions
Expressindia.com - New Delhi,India
--Competitions, cultural programmes and a whole lot of fun marked the Children's Day functions held in various schools as well as a number of institutes in the tricity. The students also celebrated the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru. Each school held the celebrations in their own unique way.

Ads Aimed at Children Get Tighter Scrutiny
Washington Post - United States
--The advertising industry yesterday revised 32-year-old guidelines for advertising directed at children younger than 12 and separately launched a voluntary effort with 10 food and beverage companies to devote at least half their advertising to promoting more healthful dietary or lifestyle choices to children.

Critics scoff at effort to limit child-focused junk-food ads
International Herald Tribune - France
--Nutrition experts criticized the proposals as full of loopholes, saying new laws, rather than self-regulation, were required.

Children's Book Tackles the N-Word
ABC News - USA
-- The story line illustrates real-life characters whose dialogue, reactions and responses exemplify a true-to-life situation that can be experienced anywhere in America's African-American communities on any given day.