30-year-old delivers twin brother

A plumber in agony as his stomach ruptured — and the embryonic remains of his twin spilled out.
The lumpy mass forced its way out after lying inside Gavin Hyatt’s abdomen since he was born 30 years ago.
In a scene echoing the horror movie Alien, Gavin staggered into his GP’s surgery bleeding from his belly button.
His stunned GP Dr Joe Santos said: "It was like something from Alien. I didn’t believe Gavin when he said something was coming out of his belly button until I saw him."
Medics said the growth was a parasitic twin — Gavin’s identical brother who died in the womb early in their mom’s pregnancy.
The 4cm foetus then became embedded in Gavin’s tissue and stayed in his stomach for the next 30 years.
There are just a handful of cases worldwide — with the majority reported in Asia.
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Eyes from the Sky

Criminals may be used to looking over their shoulders for police, but a new crime-fighting tool introduced in Florida means they will now also be looking above their heads.
Officers in the town of Palm Bay are being sent aloft on motorized paragliders to act as spies in the sky, in a first-of-its-kind mission code named Operation Soar.
Suspended beneath parachutes wearing lawnmower-style motors on their backs, they will patrol the skies looking for burglars, car thieves and missing children, equipped with radios, cameras and GPS navigation systems
The seats of their unconventional aircraft have been specially bulletproofed and the officers have standby parachutes, to protect against criminals who may be tempted to use them for target practice.
The paraglider patrol idea was hatched after hopes of launching unmanned drones to conduct aerial surveillance over Palm Bay were shot down by the Federal Aviation Administration, due to safety fears.
"Our agency is pretty innovative, we like to think out of the box and experiment with new ideas. The more we fly these paragliders, the more uses we'll find for them," said Lieutenant Joe Eakins.
The $25,000 gas-powered machines, purchased using proceeds from the sale of criminal assets, can fly at speeds up to 63mph and at altitudes anywhere between two inches off the ground and 18,000ft.
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Boy Playing 'Cops and Robbers' Shot by Deputy
A boy playing "cops and robbers" with a toy handgun has been shot and wounded by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, officials say.
The boy was shot shortly Sunday night in Palmdale. Deputy Jeff Gordon says the boy was hospitalized in stable condition and is expected to survive.
His age and identity were not immediately released.
Gordon says deputies were responding to reports that someone was riding a bicycle and brandishing a handgun. They spotted the rider and ordered him to drop the weapon but instead, Gordon says he pointed it at the deputies.
One deputy fired a shot and hit the boy in the upper body.
Palmdale is about 50 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
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Saudi judge says it's okay to slap overspending wives
A Saudi judge said it is okay for a man to slap his wife for lavish spending at a seminar on domestic violence, according to a report from Agence France-Presse.
Jeddah judge Hamad al-Razine told the group a husband was justified in smacking his wife, using overspending on a high-end abaya, the black shroud Saudi women must wear in public, as an example, according to AFP.
"If a person gives 1,200 riyals (320 dollars) to his wife and she spends 900 riyals (240 dollars) to purchase an abaya from a brand shop, and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment," Razine said.
The seminar was on the role of authorities in preventing domestic violence that was attended by activists and officials, including members of the National Family Safety Program.
While the judge recognized the country's domestic violence problem, he said some of the blame must lie with the wives.
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Women only hear properly when gossiping or eavesdropping
Women only really hear properly when they are gossiping or eavesdropping on other people's conversations, according to new research.
More than two thirds of women admitted that a gossip with friends is the only time they are properly listening to what is being said.
The same percentage think they hear most intently when they are trying to eavesdrop on an argument taking place nearby.
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Florida woman keeps mother's dead body in house for six years
A Florida woman has been charged with fraud and theft after she kept her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits..
Penelope Sharon Jordan of Sebastian, Florida, was charged by a federal grand jury last week with Social Security fraud and theft, the US attorney's office in Miami said.
Police found the decaying body of her mother, Timmie Jordan, on a bed in a spare bedroom at the mother's home, when they were called to investigate a report of nuisance cats.
Miss Jordan, 61, told police that her mother had died in 2003.
The indictment alleged that Miss Jordan concealed her mother's death in order to receive both her US Social Security benefits and her military survivor's benefit.
Miss Jordan collected $61,415 from Social Security and $176,461 from the military pension during the six years, prosecutors said.
She could face up to 15 years in prison.
Local media reported that Miss Jordan told police that her mother died of old age and she kept the remains because she could not afford burial expenses. An autopsy found no signs of foul play.
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It's a Happy Happy Day

Today is also my Birthday.
I was born on Saturday Night 51 years ago.
What a Mother's Day it was for my Dear Departed Mom.
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Big Splash in 3…2…1

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Hey, Smile for the Camera

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When words are needed

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The Wacky Japanese

Soccer Ball Dad

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Getting The Donut!

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Rocket Launch!

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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed

Man sues Burger King over veggies
A US man is suing Burger King for £65,000 failing to remove the pickles from a burger he bought two years ago
Dairus Dugger is seeking damages after alleging the restaurant, in James City County, Virginia, failed to heed his "specific request for the omission of onions, pickles and tomatoes".
He says he suffered a "severe allergic reaction" after taking a bite from the sandwich before realising it still had pickles tomatoes and onions in it.
The allergic reaction kept him off work and resulted in large medical bills, the Virginian-Pilot newspaper reports.
Mr Dugger says Burger King's error was "tantamount to negligence", and he is seeking $100,000 in damages, plus legal fees and court costs.
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Donations flood in to honest cabbie
Hundreds of Argentinians have been donating money to a taxi driver who found more than £20,000 in cash in his cab and returned it to its owners.
The donations started after a website was set up calling for gestures of gratitude for his "extraordinary act of honesty", reports the BBC.
So far the equivalent of nearly £10,000 has been donated, according to the site.
Santiago Gori, a taxi driver in the coastal city of La Plata, found £21,600 in a bag in the back of his taxi after driving an elderly couple a short distance.
A few days later he managed to locate his passengers again and he returned the bag. For Argentines used to corruption at all levels of society, this was an extraordinary story.
Two young advertising agency employees decided to set up a website to thank Mr Gori further for his exemplary behavior.
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Woman sues Wal-mart over a rodent
A Louisiana woman is suing a Wal-Mart store over what she claims was a much-too-close encounter of the furry kind.
Rebecca White says in her lawsuit that employees at a Wal-Mart in Abbeville let a rat-tailed rodent known as a nutria run loose and scare her. She says that not only did employees know it was in their store, but gave it a pet name, Norman, and failed to warn shoppers.
White says she was pushing a full shopping cart down an aisle in October when the nutria ran out from behind a rack. She says she pulled the cart backward in a panicked attempt to protect herself and hurt her back and foot.
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Man steals toothbrushes
Investigators say there's been another robbery at a Daytona Beach, Florida CVS drug store, but the crook wasn't after prescription pills. He was after toothbrushes.
You wouldn't think it would be worthwhile stealing toothbrushes, but power brushes can sell for a couple hundred dollars and the suspect filled a whole basket with them.
A man walked in like an average customer and reached down to grab a shopping basket, it was what he put in the basket that baffled Daytona Beach police.
All he was after was tooth brushes and teeth whiteners.
"It's expensive, but it's the first time in my career I've known someone to go and steal $800 worth of electric toothbrushes and supplies," said Lieutenant Ron Wright of the South Daytona Police Department.
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Man uses 'cahier's check' at FBI office
If you're going to buy something with a forged cashier's check, don't misspell "cashier's" or use an FBI office as your shipping address. Monroe police said they arrested 44-year-old man after he did both. He was held Friday on two counts of forgery and as a fugitive from justice in Georgia, where he is accused of a similar scheme.
The FBI called police Thursday after a Minnesota cell phone distributor called the bureau.
The company had sent 50 phones to 300 Washington Street in Monroe, only to discover its $2,359.45 payment was a "cahier's check".
FBI agents saw the suspect wave down a delivery truck driver outside the bureau later Thursday, stopped the transaction and waited for police.
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Naked old woman knocks on door, asks for cigarettes
A Clearwater woman looking for cigarettes needed more than a smoke, police say.
She needed some clothes.
Monica L. Wood, 52, was arrested early today and faces misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct.
According to Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies, Wood knocked on a person’s door late during the night while in the nude to ask for cigarettes. Deputies said they later found the suspect walking through a nearby mobile home park wearing only boxer shorts.
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