A woman from New Zealand, who allegedly fooled her family for nine months into believing she was pregnant, walked into a hospital saying she had gone into labour and abducted a baby.

AN Australian woman accused of setting her husband’s genitals on fire because she thought he was having an affair has been charged with murder.

Indian writer Kiran Desai succeeded where her mother failed by winning the £50,000 (€73,000) Man Booker Prize For Fiction with her novel The Inheritance of Loss.

Indian novelist R K Narayan died in hospital today after suffering heart trouble and breathing problems, a close family friend said. He was 94.