More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and other preventable causes, a report said Tuesday, blaming a lack of political will and funding for the crisis. India accounts for 29 percent of all newborn deaths worldwide, according to the charity Save the Children which published the findings at the launch of its annual State of the World's Mothers report. The report on 186 countries showed South Asia -- which accounts for 24 percent of the world's population -- recording 40 percent of the world's first-day deaths.

An Argentina court ordered a bishop from a town outside Buenos Aires to pay damages of $30,000 plus ten years' interest to a priest sex abuse victim, according to the ruling released Monday. The appeals court ruling, handed down on April 9, came just days after Pope Francis, originally from Argentina, told Vatican disciplinarians to act "with determination" against the scourge of pedophile priests.

From its generous parental leave to Ikea's supervised play areas, Sweden prides itself on family friendly policies. So when a Swedish cafe owner tried to ban children from his property he wasn't surprised by the number of outraged parents -- there were plenty -- but by the groundswell of support he received from his guests and colleagues.

A Frenchwoman who has admitted drowning two of her own new-born children and storing the corpses in her freezer has been imprisoned and placed on suicide watch, judicial sources said Wednesday. The 32-year-old, identified as Ms C., has been in custody since Sunday, when the babies' bodies were discovered by police who had been called by her partner to their home in the town of Amberieu in eastern France.