MALAYSIAN police stormed a kindergarten and shot a man carrying a machete who held 30 children and four teachers hostage for six hours in a tense stand-off.

Malaysian police stormed a kindergarten today and shot a man carrying a machete who held 30 children and four teachers hostage for six hours in a tense stand-off.

A Malaysian court has sentenced a doctor and his assistant to one year in jail for selling a newborn boy.

Malaysian police say they have rescued four babies from suspected infant traffickers who bought newborns from poor mothers and sold them to childless couples.