UNICEF says the world is failing newborn babies.

The Taoiseach's office has been taken over by a teenager today.

So I’m reading a report. Unicef published it on Monday, and it says a lot of scarifying — even shaming — things about how children are doing in the rich countries of the world.

Last year was the worst yet for Syria’s rising generation, with at least 652 children killed in 2016, the United Nations’ child relief agency has said.

Powerful.

The UN children’s fund has warned that 3.6 million Iraqi children are at “serious risk” of death, injury, sexual violence, abduction and recruitment into armed groups.

Migrant children in northern France are forced into crime and prostitution on a daily basis to secure a place to stay in migrant camps or the promise of passage to Britain, the UN children’s agency said.

A UNICEF report has found that around a third of Irish children live in deprived circumstances.

Almost one-third of Irish children live in materially-deprived households, according to new rankings by Unicef.

More than 80% of Syria's children have been harmed by the country's conflict, including growing numbers who are forced to work, join armed groups or marry young because of widening poverty, the UN children's agency said.

It's all getting a bit petty now.

Aids is now the leading cause of death among African teenagers and the second most common killer for adolescents across the globe, the United Nations’ agency for children has said.

Alex Ferguson is returning to the Old Trafford dugout next month to manage David Beckham and a host of other stars in a charity match.

The retired soccer star admitted he was "really affected" by the story of four-year-old Viana, who was swept out of her father's arms and drowned during the 2013 Philippines typhoon.

Attacks by armed extremist group Boko Haram have forced 500,000 children to flee their homes in the last five months, according to Unicef.

Deaths from malaria have dropped 60% in the last 15 years, although three billion people remain at risk, a World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef report has found.

Some children have no experience of life outside rape, abuse, neglect and trauma. This cannot go on. We must put an end to the scourge of violence, writes David Beckham

At least 74 children have been killed since the Yemen conflict intensified almost two weeks ago and more than 100,000 people have left their homes in search of safety, the UN children’s agency says.