Eoin English writes about families benefitting from Chernobyl Children International and Irish Aid-funded outreach schemes

The Lord Mayor of Cork Chris O’Leary has seen how an Irish charity has pioneered a new foster-care model which has saved 300 vulnerable Belarussian children from a life in bleak state-run orphanages.

Two seven-year-old girls have handed ministers a petition signed by 30,000 people demanding a judge lead the inquiry into church-run, state-sanctioned institutions for single mothers.

The supermodel Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, Russian millionaire Vladislav Doronin, has been speaking about their plans to tie the knot, revealing fashion designer-and-magazine editor Dasha Zhukova – the partner of Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich - will be bridesmaid.

TWO eight-year-old twin girls were in hospital in Russia yesterday after being allegedly thrown from the window of their eighth floor apartment by their mother’s boyfriend.