Royal baby: The newborn migrant we should have been talking about this weekend
Here are the stories you may have missed because of the royal baby coverage
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Your support makes all the difference.The news for the past three days has been dominated by the latest addition to the Royal Family.
Away from the Lindo Wing and the birth of the Princess of Cambridge, however, the rest of the world has continued.
Here are some of the other news stories you may have missed - including one about the birth of another baby girl in very different circumstances that hasn't quite received the same media attention. (Click on the headline to read the story in full)
1. Italy rescues thousands of migrants off Libyan coast
Numbers risking the journey in search of a better life have continued to rise two weeks after as many as 900 people drowned in the worst Mediterranean shipwreck in living memory.
Crew from the Italian naval vessel Bettica found the woman in labour on a boat overnight. A photo posted online showed her new daughter sleeping in a makeshift cradle decorated with a pink bow. "Both mother and daughter are in good health," the navy said.
2. Isis kills 300 Yazidi captives in Iraq
Hundreds of Yazidis, including women and children, were killed by Isis officials said over the weekend. About 50,000 Yazidis fled to the mountains outside Sinjar when the city was captured by Isis last year.
3. Gender neutral title to be added to the OED
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is considering adding the gender neutral honorific ‘Mx’, to be included alongside Mr, Mrs, Ms or Miss, to represent transgender people and those who do not wish to identify their gender, for the first time.
4. Nigeria rescues 234 women from Boko Haram
Soldiers rescued 234 women and girls from the Sambisa Forest in the northeast of Nigeria. The country appears to be making headway in the war against Boko Haram.
5. Liberian woman catches Ebola after sex with survivor
A woman who died from Ebola may have contracted the disease after having sex with a survivor in Liberia, a report says.
6. Author Ruth Rendell dies, aged 85
The prolific crime novelist, who wrote more than 60 bestsellers, died on Saturday. Baroness Rendell was made a Labour peer in 1997 and Ed Miliband paid tribute to her “loyalty and passion”.
Additional reporting by Reuters
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