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Ellie Owens, her husband, and three young children left Connecticut for Copenhagen in 2022. They moved for work, but have stayed partly because they've found that the experience of raising young children is superior, and cheaper, in Denmark's capital. "Daycare is astronomically cheaper here," Owens told Business Insider in October. "We were paying for my oldest to go three mornings a week to daycare in the US, and we were paying $2,600 a month. And here, I pay around $850 — maybe — for two children to get full-time care."

China is to relax its policy of restricting most couples to having only a single child, state media say. In future, families will be allowed two children if one parent is an only child, the Xinhua news agency said. The proposal follows this week's meeting of a key decision-making body of the governing Communist Party. Other reforms include the abolition of "re-education through labour" camps and moves to boost the role of the private sector in the economy. The BBC's Celia Hatton, in Beijing, says most of the changes have already been tested in parts of the country. Officials announce...

The Obama administration has drawn up draft rules that would end a decades-long ban on Libyans getting military training in the U.S., according to documents obtained by House Republicans who said Thursday that it’s the wrong move after last year’s Benghazi attack. The administration says relations with Libya have “normalized,” and that the Libyan government has earned the right to have better relations with the U.S., which first imposed the ban in 1983 after a wave of terrorist attacks involving Libyans. But House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte and Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Libya remains a dangerous hotspot and...

Charlotte Church today showed signs of her strain at being a single mother bringing up two little ones. Charlotte, 24, struggled with a host of bags, toys and bottles as she took her two children out for the day. Meanwhile her estranged fiancé, peramatanned Gavin Henson, has been out living it up, looking relaxed and care-free.

Relaxed Saddam 'cannot wait' for hearing By Jack Fairweather in Baghdad (Filed: 01/07/2004) Saddam Hussein wished onlookers good morning and tried to fire off questions to the judge when he was handed over to Iraqi legal custody yesterday. During a closed ceremony at an American military base, he appeared to be in a relaxed mood as he and 11 of his former lieutenants were read their rights. "He said good morning. He wanted to talk about what would happen," said Salem Chalabi, the American-educated lawyer who set up the special tribunal that will try the high-ranking Ba'athists. "We had to...