A COVER of REM’s haunting ballad Everybody Hurts will be the Live Aid-style Haiti charity single and feature Leona Lewis, boy band JLS and veteran rocker Rod Stewart, it was revealed yesterday.

Donations double after advert airs.

A row has erupted in Britain over the refusal of both the BBC and Sky News to air an emergency appeal for Gaza.

The top names in Scottish music tonight kicked off a benefit concert for the victims of the Asian tsunami.

The Irish Government has no plans to follow the British Government and match public donations for the Asian tsunami disaster with Exchequer funding, it emerged tonight.

England’s Premiership football clubs today donated £1m (€1.4m) to the relief effort for the victims of South Asia’s devastating tsunami.

British charities today launched a massive emergency appeal to help the victims of the tsunamis which have devastated countries around the Indian Ocean.

PARENTS protesting for three months the care arrangements for their mentally handicapped children have seen their demands for change backed by an independent report.

WHEELCHAIR-BOUND and epileptic, Aidan Boyd has been at a severe disadvantage since the moment he was born.

THE head of services at a Dublin special-needs school, where nurses and teachers are engaged in a power struggle, has urged the Government to draw up protocols to prevent similar disputes elsewhere.