About 100 protesters held a demonstration outside the Irish embassy in New Delhi, India, over the death of Savita Halappanavar.

Authorities warned residents to remain at home today after heavy rains began falling again across Bombay and the surrounding state, which were hammered last week by devastating floods.

Hundreds of angry residents took to the streets of Mumbai today demanding the government clear rotting animal carcasses from the streets and restore water and electricity, as rescuers found more than 100 bodies in the debris of homes destroyed in western India’s devastating floods.

An Iranian woman sentenced to death for killing a police chief who tried to rape her has been pardoned by the victim’s family.