Madonna said the children's wing at a hospital in Malawi she has been building for two years completed its first surgery last week and will officially open July 11.

In the days since the five brothers vanished at a checkpoint manned by Gaddafi loyalists, a small army of friends and relatives have fanned out across Tripoli.

Diagnosing the 21 year-old apprentice butcher accused of murdering his sister as suffering from a mental disorder was an attempt to ‘clutch at straws,’ the director of the Central Hospital said today.

DETECTIVES yesterday released a picture of a newborn baby found abandoned on a doorstep following an appeal to trace two women.

A woman who gave birth after being involved in a road accident in which her mother died was today continuing her recovery in hospital.