Honours are being showered upon Garret FitzGerald. Nearly four decades after he graduated from UCD medical school, the Dublin-born research clinician (...)

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Chinese police detained at least 10 people for spreading rumours about the H7N9 bird flu virus, state media said today, as the death toll from (...)