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Different Coloured Twins
The chances of a mixed-race couple having twins who look as if they are different races are a million to one, but there are occasional stories about them, like Kian and Remee Hodgson (above) and Ryan and Leo Gerth. A British couple has become even more of an exception by having two sets of twins who look remarkably different. Miya and Leah Durrant were born in December 2008. Their older sisters, Hayleigh and Lauren, were born seven years earlier. Miya has the black hair and dark complexion of her father, Dean Durrant, and older sister, Hayleigh; while Leah has blue eyes and paler skin just like mom, Alison Spooner, and older sister, Lauren.
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Oldest mother gives birth
In 2008 and at the age of 70, Rajo Devi became the oldest woman to give birth. She and her husband had tried with, no luck, to conceive throughout their 50 years of marriage and thought it was impossible after she went through menopause in her late 50’s. However, after entering a fertility programme at an in-vitro clinic, Devi was successfully impregnated by a donor egg that was fertilized with the sperm of her 72-year-old husband. On December 6th, she gave birth to a baby girl. Both mother and daughter are healthy. Latest reports claim that the happy septuagenarians are attempting IVF again and hopes of having a baby boy.
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Mourning bees
Margaret Bell, who kept bees in Leintwardine, about 15 kilometres from her home in Ludlow, Shropshire (England), died in June 1994. Soon after her funeral, mourners were amazed to see hundreds of bees settle on the corner of the street opposite the house where she had lived for 26 years. The bees stayed for an hour before buzzing off over the rooftops. The local press ran a photograph of the bees hanging on the wall in a cluster.
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A baby,a mother
Rio De Janeiro. Brazil: A 9-year-old gave birth to a baby girl in the Western Amazon jungle, a pregnancy that authorities say may have been the result of rape, the National Indian Bureau said.
The girl was found in the jungle in April by labourers working on a natural gas pipeline from the Coati oil fields to Manaus, a city of 1.5 million people, said the bureau.
She was taken to Manaus and went into labour. The baby, weighing 2.2kg. was delivered by Cesarean section and was reportedly in good health, according to Daniele Santos of the Funai Press Office.
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