An Irish backpacker could face prison after failing to report the birth of her stillborn child, whose body she hid in the outback of Western Australia.

AN Australian judge ruled yesterday that a quadriplegic man who says he cannot “undertake any basic human functions” has the right to direct a nursing home to stop feeding him and allow him to die.

A quadriplegic Australian man who cannot “undertake any basic human functions” has the right to stop being fed and die, a judge ruled today.