Conjoined twins separated in gruelling seven-hour operation
Sunday May 14 2006
Abbigail and Isabelle Carlsen spent their first five months looking eye to eye, often bumping legs and arms and touching each other in the face.
Doctors said that the surgery was complicated but that there was a 90-95 per cent chance that both girls would survive.
Son of top Iraqi judge killed GUNMEN killed the son of Iraq's top judge along with two of his bodyguards and dumped their bodies in one of Baghdad's Sunni Arab neighbourhoods. Police found the bodies of Ahmed Midhat al-Mahmoud, 22, a lawyer, and two of his bodyguards in northern Baghdad's Azamiyah district.
Jilted man's suicide at wedding SPURNED by the woman he loved, an Indian man blew himself up at her wedding to another man. Five members of the bride's family were injured in the explosion on Friday. Netrapal Singh, a 28-year-old electrician, tied crude bombs to his waist and entered the wedding venue disguised as a woman in a sari and bangles. The bride's family, which had anticipated trouble from Singh, spotted him just as he was approaching the groom.
Guard on oil pipeline after blast PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo ordered security services to step up protection of Nigeria's pipelines after a gas conduit exploded, killing up to 200 people.
Oil-region militants have targeted pipelines and other petroleum-industry infrastructure in Africa's oil giant, cutting production by a quarter. But there was no sign that Friday's fire on a ruptured pipeline was sabotage.
Blair kids have Catholic 'grit' CHERIE Blair has brought her children up to follow her faith because she does not want them to be "simply part of the Establishment", it was disclosed yesterday.
The British Prime Minister's wife said she wanted to raise her four children as Catholics because of the "little bit of grit" in the faith that informs its social teachings.
Mrs Blair said: "When I was growing up, to be a Catholic was something that meant you were not part of the Establishment. And so, being from a fairly humble family myself, and knowing that my children are having a pretty privileged life, I don't want them to be simply part of the Establishment."
21 dead as boat defies warning Some 21 bodies have been recovered after a small outrigger ferry sank in rough waters in the central Philippines, raising to 23 the number of people killed by a storm.
At least 18 other passengers of the motorboat Mae An have been rescued since yesterday, when it capsized off Masbate island after ignoring a general warning from authorities stopping all small vessels from sailing.
Street battles in Somali capital MORTARS, machine guns and rockets pounded Mogadishu yesterday in a seventh day of fierce militia fighting that has killed at least 144 people so far and which spread quickly across the ravaged city.
The interim government - powerless to stop the shooting and unable to enter Mogadishu - called for foreign intervention to end the worst fighting there in years.
