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Newborn babies need food to grow, but they also need proper affection. Love actually makes an infant grow physically.

A child health expert has warned that it’s important for parents to give proper attention to their kids as they are like flowers that need to be nurtured with proper love and care.

However, babies who do not get proper care during their first year are at great risk of having poor brain growth and social skills.

Baghdad - A group of men fatally shot an Iraqi police officer in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday afternoon, police there said.

The officer was standing in front of the local offices of the Department of Social Welfare in the eastern Mosul district of al-Faisaliya when "unknown gunmen" opened fire and killed him, police in Mosul told the German Press Agency dpa.

Also on Sunday, in a predominantly Christian district in an eastern district of the city, a band of armed men abducted a teacher, police added, without providing any further details.

Islamabad - Hundreds of people have risen up against Taliban fighters in Pakistan's north-western district of Upper Dir and killed "several" militants in weekend raids, media reports said on Sunday.

The militia was raised in the remote Hayagai village where a suicide bombing at a mosque Friday killed at least 49 people minutes before the start of early afternoon prayers.

Armed locals from Hayagai stormed six Taliban-held villages in nearby Doog Darra on Saturday to avenge the mosque attack, The News daily reported.