Emily Sagalis cried tears of joy after giving birth to a “miracle” girl in a typhoon-ravaged Philippine city, then named the baby after her mother who went missing in the storm.

IF Savita Halappanavar had been pregnant and in difficulty in El Salvador, doctors would have been legally obliged to leave her die.

A 100-strong group of current and retired nurses will refuse to co-operate with any requests for an abortion in Irish hospitals.

Hortensia Bussi, the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende who helped lead opposition to the military dictatorship that ousted her socialist husband in a bloody 1973 coup, has died at 94.