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An average family doctor is seeing up to two female patients a week who have suffered domestic violence.
But a conference of GPs has been told a woman may endure 35 violent attacks before telling the gardai.
The revelations emerged as the first guide for family doctors on how to deal with patients suffering domestic violence was [...]

An average family doctor is seeing up to two female patients a week who have suffered domestic violence.
But a conference of GPs has been told a woman may endure 35 violent attacks before telling the gardai.
The revelations emerged as the first guide for family doctors on how to deal with patients suffering domestic violence was [...]

Fear of a virus that has infected thousands of children gripped parents in China’s capital and financial hub, as the number of cases of hand, foot and mouth disease mounted across the country.
Some 11,905 cases of the virus have been reported in China this year, the official Xinhua news agency said. The virus has caused [...]

Holidaymakers at one of the country’s busiest resorts say it is so filthy and unsafe it should be shut down.
Waingaro Hot Springs, west of Ngaruawahia, has previously been criticised by the coroner and water safety experts after a child drowned there.
Now there are fresh calls for the Waikato District Council which owns the lease of [...]

Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis headed out of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta in search of food, water and medicine, but aid workers have said that thousands will die if emergency supplies don’t get through soon.
Buddhist temples and schools on the outskirts of the storm’s trail of destruction are now makeshift refugee centers.
The UN humanitarian agency said [...]

The family of Pakistan’s ambassador to Kabul kidnapped by the Taliban in a tribal region three months ago expressed concern over the government’s failure to recover him and urged authorities to expedite their efforts.
Ambassador Tariq Azizuddin went missing in the Khyber tribal region on the Afghan border along with his driver and guard while traveling [...]

By Simon Denyer NEW DELHI, March 18 (Reuters) - In honour of the crouching, naked blonde painted on its nose, its pilot had named his bomber the %26quot;Hot as Hell%26quot;. [...]

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas authorities said on Friday that they were investigating a potential child-abuse case at a ranch operated by followers of a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.
No arrests had been made as of late Friday afternoon but officials said 52 girls have been [...]

(Adds start of senate election results, arrests of journalists) By Stella Mapenzauswa HARARE, April 3 (Reuters) - More delayed election results started trickling in on Thursday as crisis-stricken Zimbabwe anxiously awaited a leadership meeting expected to discuss the biggest challenge to President Robert Mugabe’s 28-year rule. Amid uncertainty over whether [...]

By Peter Graff BAGHDAD, April 3 (Reuters) - The fighters came across the stinking creek and within hours they had overrun three Iraqi army checkpoints. U.S. forces rushed to help them regroup. The battle of Creek Road in Baghdad formed just a small part of the fight that raged for [...]