An eight-year-old girl is in a critical condition after being shot by her adult cousin who mistook her black and white Halloween costume for a skunk.

Plans for the new dedicated children’s hospital in Dublin have been refused, it has been confirmed.

SCIENTISTS for the first time have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, a development that experts called a major advance for the experimental technique.

A three-year-old girl is said to be fighting for her life today after shooting herself in the head with a gun she found in a bedroom.

All five Amish girls who survived last month’s school massacre in Pennsylvania that killed five of their classmates suffered severe gunshot wounds with long-term implications, a physician familiar with their medical treatment said today.