More Kardashian divorce talks

Reality show star Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are getting another chance to settle their divorce case, and this time a judge wants the professional basketball player to attend. Humphries did not appear for settlement talks Friday, and a Superior Court judge set another hearing for April 19 in Los Angeles.

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Has Fame Spoiled ‘Slumdog’ Kids? Trust Fund at Risk

Young Rubina Ali’s social diary has been more than full these past few months: a trip to Paris; a tea party in Westminster, London; a dance show in Hong Kong; product endorsements; and numerous trips in and out of India for award shows and to promote the Slumdog Millionaire child actor’s autobiography, Slumgirl Dreaming.

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Dirty Work: The Creeping Rollback of Child Labor Laws

The government has not had a lot of ideas for what to do about the nation’s anemic job market, but there are troubling signs that one old idea is starting to reemerge: child labor. In the first part of the 20th century, there was a concerted effort to end the scourge of children working in factories and textile mills

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Outrage: Former Bishop Vangheluwe Downplays Child Abuse

The Belgian Catholic Church must have felt it hit a nadir last year when it had to face harrowing revelations of rampant child sex abuse among its priesthood. However, the church’s reputation is now at a new low, thanks to the ill-judged comments of the disgraced former Bishop of Bruges, who in April 2010 admitted to abusing his nephew

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