An 8-year-old boy suspected of murdering his father and another man in a remote northern Arizona town admitted the crime in a video interview with police which surfaced Wednesday.

TOKYO, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - Japanese police said Friday they arrested a woman who allegedly buried her baby's body in cement and hid it after believing the boy died.

Police arrested Yuko Hamano, 30, and her boyfriend Masakatsu Takagi, 48, on Thursday on charges of abandoning the body of the woman's 18-month-old son, Kyotaro, police said.

'Hamano told police that the baby collapsed at home some time around March last year and she thought he was dead,' said a police spokesman in western Kyoto prefecture.

SYDNEY, Oct 18, 2007 (AFP) - Australian police were scouring Sydney schools Thursday trying to identify a boy whose naked body was found in a suitcase floating in duck pond on the city's suburban outskirts.

A group of children made the grisly find on Wednesday afternoon, initially believing a dead pig had been dumped in the suitcase, only to discover it was the plastic-wrapped body of a boy aged four to eight.

Officials said the discovery had shocked Australia's largest city and warned parents to keep a close watch on thier children.

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Oct 8, 2007 (AFP) - A pedophile who kept an abducted boy for nearly five years was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the kidnapping of a second child whose disappearance led police to both boys.

Michael Devlin, 41, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and armed criminal action in Franklin County court on charges of abducting 13-year-old Ben Ownby in January.

He is expected to plead guilty to sexual assault and kidnapping charges in three jurisdictions Tuesday in relation to both cases.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Oct 5, 2007 (AFP) - A Missouri woman who was strangled by an acquaintance probably regained consciousness as the attacker sliced into her abdomen to steal her unborn baby, a pathologist testified Friday.

Bobbie Jo Stinnett likely blacked out after being choked from behind with a rope but began struggling again when her attacker loosened the rope to begin cutting into her belly, said Mary Case, the chief medical examiner for St. Louis County, Missouri.

MIAMI, Oct 4, 2007 (AFP) - Police in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday arrested the mother of a boy aged 13 who is accused of killing his 8-year-old brother by beating and choking him.

Tangela Key, 34 was charged with aggravated child neglect.

She had allegely left her children at home alone when her 13-year-old son Demetrius killed his younger brother Levares.

WELLINGTON, Oct 4, 2007 (AFP) - A toddler abandoned at an Australian railway station by her fugitive father will go to China to live with her grandmother, a New Zealand court ruled Thursday.

Three-year-old Qian Xun Xue was abandoned on September 15 by her father, who is being hunted by US police.

Her father Nai Yin Xue, 54, is on the run after the body of his wife, Qian Xun's mother, was found in the boot of his car outside the family home in Auckland.

A New Zealand court ordered Qian Xun go to live in China with her maternal grandmother.

MIAMI, Sept 27, 2007 (AFP) - A Cuban pig farmer cleared a major hurdle in an international custody battle Thursday, when a Florida court ruled he did not abandon his five-year-old daughter, who lives in Miami with wealthy anti-communist exiles.

Judge Jerry Cohen ruled in favor of Rafael Izquierdo, dismissing claims he was an unfit parent for having allowed the girl to leave communist Cuba with her mentally unstable mother.

WELLINGTON, Sept 27, 2007 (AFP) - The Chinese grandmother of the toddler abandoned on an Australian railway station says the child is terrified of being left alone again, a report said Thursday.

Three-year-old Qianxun Xue was abandoned in Melbourne on September 15 by her father, who flew to Los Angeles the same day and is now the subject of an international manhunt.

Naiyin Xue, 54, is being sought by US police after the body of his 27-year-old wife An'an Liu was found in his car outside the family's Auckland home on Wednesday last week.

LONDON, Sept 26, 2007 (AFP) - British police investigating the murder of an 11-year-old boy shot dead as he returned home from football practice on Wednesday released closed circuit television footage of his suspected killer.

The image, which has been enhanced by experts, is of a youngster wearing a hooded top. He was riding a bicycle near a pub in Liverpool, northwest England, moments before and after Rhys Jones was killed on August 22.