The Irish National Accreditation Board (INAB) has defended its decision to retrospectively accredit a laboratory that it did not even know existed was operational for an extended period of time.

Attackers rammed a car through the gates of Belgium's crime institute and set fire to a lab containing crime scene samples, apparently in an effort to destroy evidence.

The head of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory has resigned, hours after it was stripped of its right to test samples.

Members of the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association (MLSA) have voted to accept the Lansdowne Road proposals on public pay.