Warning over youth mental health 

MORE must be done to help parents and teachers spot signs of mental illness in children or thousands of youngsters could be at risk of alcohol and drug abuse, self-harm and even suicide, UK experts have warned.

A group of child health specialists have cautioned that many children are at risk of "slipping through the net" if awareness is not improved among adults.
The comments come as a new survey found that more than a third of adults are unsure about the signs of mental illness in a child.
And over half fear approaching the subject in case they are mistaken.
The poll of 2100 British adults found 38 per cent did not know the signs and symptoms of mental illness in youngsters and 51 per cent would be worried about raising the issue for fear of being wrong.

West cancels Russia's G8 summit 

US President Barack Obama and top economic powers have cancelled an upcoming G8 summit in Russia, seeking to deepen Moscow's isolation over its intervention in the Ukraine crisis.

After emergency talks called by Obama, it was announced that the G8 summit in Sochi in June would be replaced by a G7 meeting in Brussels, without Russian involvement.
The G7 also threatened tougher sanctions against Russia for its annexation of Crimea, which has plunged relations between the West and Moscow to their lowest point since the Cold War.
The meeting in The Hague came as Ukraine ordered its outnumbered troops to withdraw from Crimea as yet another of its bases was stormed.

14 dead, 150 missing in US landslide 

THE death toll from a devastating landslide in the US state of Washington has risen to at least 14 with more than 150 more potentially missing, as the White House announced federal help.

The number of people unaccounted for after the killer mudslide, described as "like a small earthquake," rose to 176, although many of those could be double-counted, emergency managers said.
"I'm very disappointed to tell you that we didn't find any sign of any survivors," said Snohomish County fire chief Travis Hots, after six more bodies had been found, adding to the eight already confirmed dead.

Widow of Errol Flynn dies in Jamaica 

PATRICE Wymore Flynn, a Hollywood actress and cattle rancher who was the widow of Australia's swashbuckling screen legend Errol Flynn, has died at her seaside home in northeastern Jamaica. She was 87.

Family spokesman Robb Callahan said Wymore Flynn died on Saturday at her ranch in Jamaica's lush Portland parish after battling pulmonary disease for a year.
The US-born actress began her theatrical career in musicals, making her Broadway debut in 1948 in the production Hold It! She was soon signed by Warner Bros as a starlet and headed to Hollywood.
During her early film career, she worked alongside actors such as Doris Day, Kirk Douglas and Randolph Scott. In 1960, she played Frank Sinatra's girlfriend in the original version of Ocean's 11.
She met her future husband when she was cast as the female lead in the 1950 western Rocky

Austrian compares EU with 3rd Reich

AN Austrian far-right politician under fire for saying that Hitler's rule may have been more liberal than European Union regulations has acknowledged that he also disparaged blacks during a speech at a presentation of a book written by a fellow right-winger
Andreas Moelzer initially denied saying that Europe risked turning into a "conglomerate of Negroes ... where chaos multiplies (through) mass immigration".
He admitted doing so after a German newspaper posted a voice recording of his comments on the internet.
Earlier in the day, Jewish Community leader Oskar Deutsch and Eva Glawischnig, the head of Austria's Greens party, demanded that Moelzer withdraw his candidacy to the EU parliament for saying that the European Union is a dictatorship that makes the Third Reich look "possibly ... liberal".
Both comments were made last month but were reported only recently. Moelzer said he used the Third Reich comparison to point to EU over-regulation and that his anti-black comments were "inappropriate".
Moelzer is on the far-right fringe of his FPO party, which has made huge gains over recent years with a stridently Eurosceptic, anti-corruption and anti-foreigner message. It now regularly polls as the most popular of all Austrian parties.

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Indian woman murdered by her parents 

A 26-YEAR-OLD Indian woman has been strangled by her parents, who opposed her recent marriage to a young man of another caste, police say.

The killing happened on Sunday in Andhra Pradesh in southern India after the parents of the woman convinced the couple that they had accepted the marriage by saying they wanted the rituals carried out to complete the union.
The couple, who worked together at a computer company, wed last Friday in the regional capital of Hyderabad, and when they arrived at the village on Saturday, the young woman went to stay with her parents and her husband checked into a hostel, a police spokesman told the PTI news agency on condition of anonymity.
"Kiran Kumar - the bridegroom - tried to call his bride, P Deepthi, by mobile phone Sunday morning, but getting no answer, he alerted the police who broke down the door to the house and found the murdered woman on the bed," the police spokesman said.
The parents, who fled after committing the crime, were arrested on Monday in a neighbouring town, police superintendent Gopinath Jatti told PTI, adding that "both confessed to the crime".
In India, particularly in rural areas, arranged marriages are common, and the parents, in case their sons and daughters want to choose their partners, normally reject candidates of a different religion or caste.
 

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Australia attends Jakarta maritime talks 

INDONESIAN immigration officers in the area where asylum seekers set off for Australia - and where the first orange lifeboat came back - say they are undermanned and overwhelmed, but still stopped almost 1000 people risking their lives last year.

Australia's Defence Minister David Johnston is visiting Jakarta on Wednesday as the difficult period in relations with Indonesia continues.
Defence co-operation was wound back late last year after reports of Australian intelligence monitoring the phones of Indonesia's leaders.
Then Australia apologised to Indonesia when it learned its vessels had breached its territory during operations to turn asylum seekers away.

Putin inks deal to incorporate Crimea 

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin and leaders of Crimea and its biggest city Sevastopol have signed a treaty making the two entities new members of the Russian Federation.

The treaty goes into force immediately, but stipulates an interim period until the end of the year to formalise the accession of the 84th and 85th members of the Russian Federation.
The signing ceremony in the Kremlin on Tuesday came after an almost hour-long address to MPs and governors, in which Putin defended the move that has triggered the worst crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War.

Market blast kills 17 in Afghanistan 

AT least 17 civilians have been killed and 46 others injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded market in northern Afghanistan.

"A pregnant woman and two children are also among the dead," said Abdul Sattar Barez, deputy governor for Faryab province.
"The bomber driving an explosive-filled auto rickshaw and wearing an explosive vest blew himself up in the crowded Maisara area in Maimana city."

New smoking link to breast cancer

SMOKING increases the risk of breast cancer in older women by almost a fifth, a study has found.

The discovery adds to a growing weight of evidence linking exposure to tobacco smoke with the disease.
US scientists who tracked the progress of around 186,000 women aged 50 to 71 found that those who smoked were 19 per cent more likely to develop breast cancer than never-smokers.
Women who once smoked but then kicked the habit were still 7 per cent more at risk.
The results held true even after accounting for alcohol consumption, which is a major breast cancer risk factor that is more common among smokers.