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The American student accused of throwing her newborn baby out of a hotel window to its death in Paris was on a school trip around Europe. The newborn baby died after the tourist hurled the infant out of a hotel window moments after giving birth, local police report. The 18-year-old was part of ‘a group of young people travelling in Europe’, according to the French authorities. The teenage mother allegedly threw her baby from the second floor of an Ibis Styles hotel 'with the umbilical cord', authorities said. Investigators in Paris believe the young woman was suffering from ‘pregnancy denial’...

Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns, according to new research Wednesday which throws more light on the Irish Catholic Church's troubled past. Death records suggest 796 children, from newborns to eight-year-olds, were deposited in a grave near a Catholic-run home for unmarried mothers during the 35 years it operated from 1925 to 1961. Historian Catherine Corless, who made the discovery, says her study of death records for the St Mary's home in Tuam in County Galway suggests that a former septic tank near the...