SUZANNE Harrington’s article (August 9) is an emotional reaction to another mother’s emotional reaction to her successful breastfeeding. Unfortunately, both preclude much-needed discussion.

Christmas Day shootings in the United States left five people, including the gunman and his mother, dead, police said tonight.

A Pakistani man who killed two CIA employees in a 1993 shooting rampage outside the agency’s US headquarters has been executed as the government warned of global retaliation against Americans.