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 [...]

Craigslist has closed the adult services of its website and replaced it with a black and white censored logo. HARTFORD, Conn. — Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website, two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded it shut down the section. The section had been replaced Saturday by a black [...]

Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s, has been appointed to David Cameron’s special advisory committee. Photograph Sarah Lee for the Guardian David Cameron has assembled an advisory committee of about a dozen business leaders, including Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s; the ad man Sir Martin Sorrell and Sir Michael Rake, chairman of [...]

Ed Balls: disagrees with Tony Blair on the deficit. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Ed Balls today rounded on Tony Blair for his claim that Labour had been wrong to allow the structural deficit to build up during the last decade. The Labour leadership contender said Blair was mistaken in his apparent support of the coalition’s [...]