A mother&#39;s plea for mercy
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The 86-year-old mother of the Iraq hostage Kenneth Bigley appeared in public for the first time to beg for his release yesterday as the desperate waiting game entered its second week.
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Murder victim Laci Peterson&#39;s mother sobbed and screamed at her son-in-law, convicted killer Scott Peterson, on Tuesday as she testified on the first day of a hearing that will determine if he should live or die.
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She has been learning to hold each of her twin sons, Carl and Clarence, one at a time. When she picks up Carl, she now has to answer to a jealous stare from Clarence, her &quot;mama&#39;s boy.
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The reports coming out of central Kansas over the weekend seem beyond grisly, as if from a horror movie: A woman kills an expectant mother, rips a baby girl from the victim&#39;s abdomen, then shows off the child to friends, neighbors and a pastor as her own.
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A terminal leukemia patient must  have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to  do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive.  Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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DEAF schoolchildren and thousands of other Iraqis called for Margaret Hassan to be released yesterday. Many wept as they held pictures of &quot;Mama Margaret&quot; outside Care International&#39;s Baghdad office, where she is director.
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As a home-care provider, she helps those who can&#39;t help themselves, such as a mother of three whose brain was damaged during childbirth.
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Jurors deciding whether to recommend the death penalty for a woman convicted of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb listened Wednesday to a 911 call in which the victim's mother described the gruesome crime scene.
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St Louia - Television viewers in the US were bombarded on Sunday by the image of the 36-year-old Kansas woman who confessed to the bizarre crime of strangling a pregnant woman before cutting an eight-month old baby from the womb and taking the child home.
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WITH her newborn baby cradled in her arms she looks the picture of wholesome motherhood. Yet the woman tenderly caressing her son is one of the most reviled women in the world.
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The mother of Ben Needham, who vanished abroad in 1991, is prompted by the McCann case to make new appeal.
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The mother of a baby believed to be the world&#39;s tiniest surviving newborn has high hopes for her record-setting daughter. At a news conference at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois on Tuesday
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Communities in Kan., Mo. Struggle With Shocking Death of Pregnant Woman Whose Baby Was Stolen. This is an undated photo showing Lisa M. Montgomery, a resident of Melvern, Kan.
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In excruciating detail, an Arizona mother on Monday described severe autism and devastating health problems that plague her 12-year-old daughter and asked a court to find common childhood vaccines were the cause.
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Â· Bereaved mothers win right to have appeal heard Â· Petition drafted by two leading human rights QCs
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A mother has spoken of her loss after the body of a 48-year-old man and a 15-month-old boy were found in a flat.
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The wife of the US hostage threatened with execution in Iraq made another impassioned appeal on Tuesday for her husband&#39;s life and urged his captors to open up the lines of communication.