Turkey After the Bomb Attacks

Turkey is in its second official day of mourning following the bomb blasts on Saturday which killed at least 95 people. Writer Yavuz Baydar speak to Newsday.

Brittle bone disease comes in various forms - but at its most severe, the effects can be devastating. For example, one baby girl in the UK broke 30 bones - and that occurred before she was even out of the womb. Now doctors say they may be able to help those likely to develop the disease by treating them with stem cell injections. One of the teams taking part is Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, and professor Lyn Chitty from the hospital speaks to us.

Dozens of people have been killed in a string of bomb attacks in both Cameroon and Chad, over the weekend. The Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be behind this spate of violence which has been targeting two countries that have joined forces with troops from Nigeria, Niger and Benin in a regional effort to defeat the militants. Martin Ewi is a senior researcher at the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies.

(Photo: A family mourns in an area allocated for families outside a forensic morgue, as they wait for the body of a relative, Ankara, 2015. Credit: AFP)