Pope Francis has met eight Irish victims of abuse committed by the clergy, on the first day of his historic trip to Dublin, where he is to participate in the IX World Meeting of Families.

Scientists have found that babies with fatal genetic lung infections are more likely to be underweight and at a risk of premature birth.

An estimated 78 million babies -- or three out of five -- worldwide are not breastfed within the first hour of life which puts them at higher risk of death and diseases and lower their chances of meeting physical and mental growth standards, according to a new Unicef and WHO report.

Newborn babies who are born with a high level of an immune-related protein in their blood cells are less likely to develop malaria throughout their early childhood, a study revealed.

The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has estimated that nearly 386,000 babies were born on New Year's Day, with India heading the list with 69,070.

Delhi Police has sent a notice to Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh, asking it to be available for questioning in a case where a newborn baby was declared dead along with his still-born twin and handed over the bodies to the parents in plastic bags last week.

Making eye contact with babies synchronises their brainwaves to adults, which can help them in learning to communicate effectively, researchers say.

Even a 10-month-old infant can tell how badly you want something by observing how hard you work to achieve it, says new study that suggests that we learn to infer motivations of others much earlier than previously thought.

In the first eight months of 2017, more than half of China's newborn babies were the second child of the family, according to a health official.