Anna Ritchie

Britain on Friday provoked Russia's wrath by directly implicating Vladimir Putin in the nerve agent attack on an ex-double agent, with the Kremlin saying the claims were "shocking and unforgivable."

A four-year-old boy in the US state of Ohio died after his stepmother allegedly put his legs in scalding hot water as a punishment. Anna Ritchie, 25, put her stepson Austin Derreck Cooper's legs in hot water in a bathtub before sending him to bed at their home in Franklin, Ohio, police said.

Britain on Friday provoked Russia's wrath by directly implicating Vladimir Putin in the nerve agent attack on an ex-double agent, with the Kremlin saying the claims were "shocking and unforgivable."

A four-year-old boy in the US state of Ohio died after his stepmother allegedly put his legs in scalding hot water as a punishment. Anna Ritchie, 25, put her stepson Austin Derreck Cooper's legs in hot water in a bathtub before sending him to bed at their home in Franklin, Ohio, police said.