A South African woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she kidnapped a baby from a hospital nearly 19 years ago and raised the child as her own.

A consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist was “quite rude” to a patient when she questioned him after he performed a hysterectomy on her, an inquiry heard yesterday.

One of Britain’s top scientists has supported the condemnation of Tim Hunt, who quit his job in the wake of controversial comments he made about women working in laboratories.

In an article in the Irish Examiner on September 4, the Nobel laureate, Sir Paul Nurse, said politicians should be “crushed and buried” for cherry-picking science to suit agendas, including in relation to climate change.

A nurse has described how she cried ‘Jesus, what are you doing?’ and snatched a scalpel from a doctor’s hand, moments before he was about to cut into an elderly patient’s vein in order to take a blood sample.

The legal status of abortion in Ireland remains chaotically unclear despite three controversial referenda being passed since 1983, writes Dan Buckley

Step forward Dr James Reilly — stroke specialist.

SO HOW was it for you? Did the earth move? See stars before your eyes? Hear a ringing in your ears?

JON NURSE’S scrambled goal gave Dagenham & Redbridge a remarkable promotion and victory in a pulsating Coca-Cola League Two play-off final at Wembley yesterday.

Protesters gathered in London today for a series of demonstrations to coincide with the start of the G20 Summit.

Nigeria has selected a British company to audit its oil sector in the government’s most serious bid yet to bring transparency to a multi-billion-dollar industry plagued by corruption.

Harry McGee says Director of Public Prosecutions James Hamilton may be trapped by policy of silence.

A NURSE died after her hair and pyjamas caught fire when she lit a cigarette on an electric cooker, an inquest heard yesterday.