A well-known Italian fertility doctor has been arrested after a woman said he had forcibly removed eggs from her at his clinic.

Dr Severino Antinori has been placed under house arrested and banned for a year as police investigate the allegations.

The complaint, rejected by the doctor's lawyers, was made by a 24-year-old Spanish woman.

Dr Antinori shot to fame in the 90s when he helped a woman give birth at 63, a first at the time.