Therapy: Thomas Lobel, who now calls himself Tammy, is undergoing controversial hormone blocking treatment. Parents say it’s better for Thomas to have sex change before he is adult. The lesbian parents of an 11-year-old boy who is undergoing the process of becoming a girl last night defended the decision, claiming it was better for a child to have a sex change when young. Thomas Lobel, who now... 

If the Sarah Mclachlan ASPCA ad for abused animals makes your heart sink, the idea of caged bears kept under inhumane conditions to have their gall bladders milked daily for use as a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) might bring you to tears. Even more heart wrenching is a recent report of a mother bear killing her cub and herself to stop a life of continued torture and pain. A bile farm worker in... 

Salma Abubaker Shtoot has been within a hair’s breadth of death. The conflict in Libya has no end in sight, as NATO intensifies airstrikes and increases what it calls “efforts to protect people.” It is those “efforts” that made a Libyan teenager choose death over life in a war-torn country. NATO has frequently claimed success in the military operation supposed to “protect civilians”.... 

Doomsday scare in Russia A 14-year-old girl from the Republic of Mari El in Central Russia has committed suicide, allegedly because she was afraid of the upcoming doomsday, predicted by the American radio preacher Harold Camping. Nastya Zachinova believed the news that the world would end on May 21, her family told the tabloid LifeNews. The once lively teenager became angsty and withdrawn. On the Saturday... 

US soldiers in Afghanistan, file photo The suicide rate among US soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has escalated to a record high, with an average of one suicide per day in June. According to US Army statistics, a total of 32 soldiers took their own lives last month, making it the worst month on record for Army suicides. Twenty-one were on active duty, with the rest being among National Guards... 

Attorney Scott Rothstein returned to Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday after contemplating suicide amid mounting allegations that he misappropriated hundreds of millions of dollars from an investment business he covertly ran out of his law office. Stuart Rosenfeldt, the president of the Rothstein, Rosenfeldt and Adler law firm, said he was told that Rothstein met with federal prosecutors after his chartered... 

Pregnant dead Jewish woman, Debra Silver who was shot in the face with a 9mm. The pregnant Upper West Side lawyer killed in a horrific double murder-suicide was in the midst of celebrating the Sabbath when her jealous lover burst in and murdered her. Debra Silver, 46, was cooking a Shabbat dinner Friday night with an old flame when Michael Ruiz, 55, arrived at her West 93rd Street co-op, a friend told...