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 [...]

Dr Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon. Photograph: Charley Gallay/WireImage There’s the slimmest of chances they aren’t Guardian readers, but condolences to the family of plastic-surgeon-to-the-stars Frank Ryan, who died when his car plunged over a Malibu cliff this week. There is some debate as to whether Dr Ryan was tweeting at the time, but even without [...]

Ed Miliband said he was not the candidate of the Labour ­establishment and would win back the people’s trust. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA Ed Miliband’s campaign for the Labour leadership claimed that vital second preference votes were heading to their man by a proportion of three to one, greatly increasing his chances of victory. On the [...]