An investigation into the deaths of a number of babies at a Galway hospital is now being widened.

A family who lost two newborn babies half a decade ago at a hospital now facing a “too similar” maternity services crisis has claimed the current scandal would not exist if officials acted on what happened.

It's a girl! Finally...

The baby boom continues at Dublin Zoo as a second Asian elephant to be born in the last six weeks arrived on Tuesday.

Giraffes, lions, monkeys, elephants - it's a baby boom!

It was a textbook birth but there was no expectant father pacing around — because he wasn’t there.

He's a cutie.

A 19-year-old man was being questioned today on suspicion of murdering a schoolgirl stabbed to death as she walked home along an unlit riverside footpath in Britain.

An Iraqi doctor was today found guilty of conspiring to murder hundreds of people with car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow.

Two doctors plotted to kill hundreds in a wave of car bombings across Britain, a court was told today.

TWO doctors charged with trying to bomb a Glasgow airport and London’s West End will be portrayed by prosecutors as terrorists in thrall to a fundamental form of Islam, a jury in London heard yesterday.

AN 11-year-old boy has come up with an exotic and apt name for Dublin Zoo’s two-month-old Asian elephant.

An 11-year-old boy has come up with an exotic and apt name for Dublin Zoo’s two-month-old Asian elephant.

A ZOO’S not-so-little latest arrival made his first public appearance yesterday.

An Irish scientist who developed a 19th Century system of hanging criminals will lend his name to a new viewing balcony at Dublin Zoo.

There were jumbo celebrations in Dublin Zoo today as its first baby elephant was officially named.

Two of the men arrested in connection with car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow had links to a hospital in Cambridge, it was reported today.

Medical colleagues of a Jordanian doctor arrested in Britain in connection with a string of thwarted car bomb attacks today said the man was absorbed in his studies and career and had no ties to terrorism.

THE father of a Jordanian doctor reportedly arrested by police investigating three failed bombings said yesterday his son was devoted to becoming a surgeon and incapable of carrying out such attacks.