Premature quadruplets born to a 65-year-old German woman are still in intensive care, doctors say, but have been gaining a little weight and are being given their mother’s milk through feeding tubes.

AN AMERICAN man who suffered from Aids appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukaemia, his doctors said.

A German nurse has been jailed for life for murdering five patients at a top Berlin hospital with overdoses of medication.