By NBC News staff — The family of a nurse who was duped into putting through a prank phone call to the hospital ward of the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge delivered a tearful tribute to her on Saturday, saying her death had left "an unfillable void."

Wiping away tears outside London's Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral where the family attended Mass, Jacintha Saldanha's husband Benedict said, "part of me has been ripped out."

Her children Lisha, 14, and Junal, 16, spoke of a generous mother who had worked tirelessly to provide for them. Read the full story.

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Indian policewomen beat female nursing students with batons as they are arrested at a protest against their exam results in Srinagar, Kashmir on September 26, 2012. Police dispersed a sit-in protest by female Kashmiri nursing students and detained some half a dozen during a protest against the results of their third year examinations, which most of the students failed.

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The National Nurses United website reports - Voicing concern over the erosion of quality of care and cuts to patient protections, nurses are on a one-day strike today at California’s second largest private hospital and one of its most profitable corporate hospital chains.

RNs have been at odds with hospital management for months over assuring there is safe RN-to-patient staffing at all times, and over the hospital’s refusal to implement safe patient lift policies to prevent accidents to patients and injuries to nurses, despite enactment of a state law requiring such policy.

Long Beach nurses will also protest hospital demands for sweeping increases in healthcare premiums for nurses. The health care takeaway the hospital is pushing would cost RNs nearly $3,000 more out of pocket in premium costs, even though the hospital’s costs for nurses’ health coverage have not risen. Read more…