In a country where many girls are discouraged from going to school, Sushma Verma is having anything but a typical childhood.

AN Australian mother relived the terrifying moment her baby rolled beneath an oncoming train in his pram, and revealed that she had been convinced her son was killed.

Thousands of panicked pilgrims stampeded today at a remote mountaintop temple in northern India, sending dozens of people plummeting to their deaths and trampling scores more.

A 30-year-old man who had both kidneys surgically removed in what may have been an illegal transplant died in hospital today after struggling for three weeks to survive, officials said.