Legalising in-vitro-fertilisation, which will give babies genetic material from mother, father and a female donor, is believed to help eliminate mitochondrial disease which affects arround 100 children each year.
'This has been a devastating year for those seeking to stand up for human rights and for those caught up in the suffering of war zones. We must hope that, looking backward to 2014 in the years to come, what we lives through will be seen as an ultimate low point from which we rose up and created a better future.'
Experts discuss lifting the 'no touch' policy for Ebola patients to tackle the high mortality rate of 80 percent for children under five years due to lack of care.