Selma Shakil, 27, with her daughter Fizar, in Delhi. Her son, Muzzamil, died in July last year aged one. Two million children die before the age of five every year in India, says Save the Children. Photograph: Gethin Chamberlain Millions of children die before their fifth birthday because developing countries skew public health spending to [...]

At 15 and three months, Arran Fernandez is set to become the youngest Cambridge undergraduate since William Pitt the Younger was offered a place. Photograph: PA At 15, most teenagers are struggling to get their heads around the algebra and equations of maths GCSE. Not Arran Fernandez. Next month, he will become the youngest student [...]

Steve Jobs talks about Ping. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP Apple chief Steve Jobs’s trumpeting of the 160 million credit card holders on iTunes was a siren call to spammers. As if they needed any invitation. The most common incidence of scamming on Apple’s latest social venture, Ping, is the offering of free iPhones from a dodgy [...]

Wayne Rooney is expected to travel with the England squad for the Euro 2012 qualifier against Switzerland. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/REUTERS Wayne Rooney must prove to Fabio Capello that he remains fully focused on leading the line for England in the Euro 2012 qualifier against Switzerland on Tuesday amid concerns that the striker may not be [...]