A midwife has apologised for telling Savita Halappanavar who was suffering a miscarriage that she could not have a termination in Ireland because it was a “Catholic thing”.

Science is rewriting the rules for how babies are conceived and born, writes Áilín Quinlan.

Eight people including a state politician have been given life sentences for the murder of a former minister in India following a decade-long trial.

Supporters of a senior Indian minister who built a temple to honour him and his wife were arrested for violating election law.

Aid workers struggled today to help hundreds of thousands of survivors of a cyclone that blasted Bangladesh, killing a reported 1,100 people, savaging coastal towns and leaving millions without power in the deadliest storm in more than a decade.

Health workers disinfected wells and distributed chlorine tablets to thousands of villagers rushing back to their homes as water levels receded sharply in flooded rivers in northern India, officials said today.

HUNDREDS of Hindi-speakers in India’s northeastern state of Assam have started fleeing ethnic violence which has claimed 29 lives in the past week.

Nearly a dozen armed tribal separatists have raided a village in India's remote north-east and killed 16 people after ordering them to line up.