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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The elderly mother of Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer held hostage in Iraq by Islamic militants threatening to kill him, has made a desperate plea for her son&#39;s release as hopes for his safety fade.
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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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The mother of a 15-year-old shot dead in Manchester urges anyone who knows who killed him to come forward.
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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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A mother's lyrical account of how she dealt with her son's cerebral palsy is set to be published in America.
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The mother of a murdered boy renews her call for information on sex offenders living in the community.
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Attorneys for the parents of a woman at the center of a right-to-die case argued Thursday she would have been profoundly affected by new Catholic teachings on end-of-life issues.
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A mother whose son drowned after falling into a river pledges to improve children's knowledge of water safety.
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THE parents of a desperately ill baby girl yesterday challenged at a High Court hearing the view by doctors caring for her that, should her condition worsen, she should be left to die.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Under the blazing noontime sun in this relief camp, Fatima Abdullah Abou does something she couldn&#39;t have done before the Darfur conflict began. She takes her patient, a young mother about to give birth, to get medical help at a local clinic manned by doctors for an international medical aid group, Relief International.
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Angel Raich is ill - very ill. She&#39;s subject to severe, debilitating pain from an inoperable brain tumor and more than a dozen other ailments, including a chronic wasting condition.
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One of Brazil&#39;s brightest new football talents yesterday made a plea for the return of his mother who was kidnapped at gunpoint at the weekend.
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The mother of conjoined twins who have now been separated grapples with medical needs and new identities.
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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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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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A mother calls on the government to allow  parents to be told if their young daughters are pregnant and want an abortion.