A conjoined twin girls with a single body and two heads have been born at southwestern hospital in China.According to Suining City Central Hospital in Sichuan staff surnamed Wang, the said twins were born Thursday. Wang added that the parents of the said twins are farmers, did not want to have the babies at first, fearing they could not afford to keep them alive.
Wang also said that they've transferred the twins to a hospital in the nearby metropolis of Chongqing to be examined by experts.The local Huaxi Metropolis Daily reported the twins weighed 9 pounds (4 kilograms) and measured 20 inches (51 centimeters).
They have two spines and two esophaguses and share other organs. Doctors were quoted as saying it would be nearly impossible to separate them.
Mexican stocks moved lower in early trading on Thursday, following the sudden drop in U.S. markets after a strong earthquake was reported in northern Japan.Stocks had been down more moderately earlier as positive U.S. jobs data and retail sales were offset by caution over Europe's commitment to interest-rate increases, and on the continued stock slide of local broadcaster and market heavyweight Televisa (TV,TLEVISA.MX).Following the quake news, the IPC index of leading issues was down by 0.5% at around 10:50 a.m. EDT on volume of 43.9 million shares valued at 1.62 billion pesos ($139 million).
The market had rallied in the latter part of March, but was down on the week so far.Televisa, Mexico's biggest broadcaster and the world's largest producer of Spanish-language TV programming, had its CPO shares sliding by 4% to MXN54.43 as it confirmed a deal to invest $1.6 billion for a 50% stake in mobile phone operator Grupo Iusacell.
Televisa's stock began its slide since the company confirmed talks with Iusacell on Tuesday.The USGS reported the quake as magnitude 6.5 but later revised the figure to 6.2, also moving the epicenter slightly.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center had no warning or advisory in place and hotels in beach resorts like Puerto Angel also reported no damage.Tremors awoke residents in Mexico City nearly 300 miles to the north, and cut power in some districts.
Some people filed onto the street in their pajamas, but there were no reports of casualties in the city, where many have grim memories of a devastating earthquake in 1985.Power and phone connections were still working.
Mexico is regularly shaken by tremors and nerves are strained since devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile earlier this year.(Additional reporting by Armando Tovar, Pablo Garibian, Cyntia Barrera, Patrick Rucker and Adriana Barrera; Writing by Catherine Bremer; Editing by Alan Elsner and Doina Chiacu)
A 10-year-old boy left Norway's Got Talent judges stunned after displaying some truly slick moves, and now the Internet is taking his performance to the global level.Tord Korsvik wowed the crowd with impressive "pop-and-lock" routine, during which the Norwegian adolescent struck more than a few robotic-looking breakdancing poses.
Though much of the number -- which has become a blogosphere smash -- seemed to borrow liberally from the breakdancing trends of the 1980s, Tord's dance seems even more amazing given the fact that the form was most popular more than two decades before he was born.
The earthquake struck a relatively rural section of the country that borders on Thailand, Laos, and China. Mynamar is also known as Burma, though the country's official name is the Union of Mynamar.The earthquakes, which occurred at a shallow magnitude of just six miles, pose little to no risk of creating a tsunami because they were located so far inland.
According to latest reports, the toll could rise and it would be a while before the scope of damage is known.This is the second biggest quake after the devastating Japan quake that killed nearly 30,000 people and caused damages worth trillions apart from radiation threats.
The quake, with a shallow epicenter 6.2 miles deep, hit about 8:30 p.m. Thursday night in a mountainous area along Myanmar's borders with Thailand and Laos, the report said, quoting Myanmar's Meteorology and Hydrology Department.The 6.8-magnitude quake was just six miles (10 kilometers) deep, according to the US Geological Survey.
The quake was followed by a 5.4-magnitude aftershock hours later. It brought down buildings or structures and set off landslides.
A bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop Wednesday in central Jerusalem, killing one woman and wounding 38 in what appeared to be the first militant attack in the city in several years.The blast could be heard throughout Jerusalem and blew out the windows of two crowded buses.
No one claimed responsibility for the bombing, which coincided with an upsurge of violence on the Gaza border that has led to fears of a new war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip. Israeli police blamed Palestinian militants, calling the blast a "terrorist" attack. Israel's public security minister, Yitzhak Aharonovich, told Channel 2 TV that the bomb was about four pounds (one to two kilograms) and was planted in a small bag on the sidewalk. He said security services were on alert for additional attacks.
The 3 p.m. attack occurred near the main entrance to Jerusalem, next to the city's central bus station, an area that is crowded with travelers and passers-by at all hours of the day.The blast reverberated throughout Jerusalem and blew out the windows of two crowded buses. Rescuers removed bloodied people from the area on stretchers, as sirens from speeding ambulances wailed in the background.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said the city would rebound quickly, vowing that Jerusalem's first-ever marathon would take place as planned on Friday."Every once in a while we are reminded who we are dealing with, a bunch of cowardly terrorists that put bombs in the middle of pedestrians," he said.
"They will very soon find out that the city goes back to normal life and this is the best way to deal with terror – to show them that they have no gain from hurting innocent people."
For the second time in five months, New Zealand's south island city of Christchurch was rocked by a major earthquake on Tuesday afternoon local time.Initial reports from Reuters news agency indicated that there were no reports of casualties, from the magnitude 6.3 temblor.
But the New Zealand Herald is reporting casualties and major damage to downtown buildings, including the Christchurch Cathedral.
In it's live blog, the Herald reports phone lines down, water running through the streets, and several buildings with serious damage.The quake destroyed the spire of the iconic stone Christchurch Cathedral, which toppled into a central city square, and police said there was a report of two buses crushed under falling buildings.It shook the Canterbury region, which has a population of approximately 500,000. Radio New Zealand reports "that some people have been killed."
Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker declared a state of emergency and ordered people to evacuate the city center. The airport was closed, and Christchurch Hospital was briefly evacuated before it was deemed safe and patients were returned. Power and telephone lines were knocked out, and pipes burst, flooding the streets with water. Some cars parked on the street were buried under rubble.
Christchurch resident Jane Smith who works in the central city told the Herald a work colleague had just returned from helping rescue efforts after a building facade had collapsed on a bus on Colombo St.
"There's people dead. He was pulling them out of a bus."
A conjoined twin girls with a single body and two heads have been born at southwestern hospital in China.According to Suining City Central Hospital in Sichuan staff surnamed Wang, the said twins were born Thursday. Wang added that the parents of the said twins are farmers, did not want to have the babies at first, fearing they could not afford to keep them alive.
