A Mother of a Grandma

Headline: Woman has first child ... at age 70
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Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: A Mother of a Grandma

AN Indian woman has given birth to her first child at the age of 70 after IVF treatment, local media reports.
Rajo Devi, who married 50 years ago, gave birth to a baby girl on November 28 after in vitro fertilisation, said Anurag Bishnoi, a doctor at the Hisar fertility centre in Haryana state.
"Rajo Devi and (her husband) Bala Ram approached the centre for treatment and the embryo transfer was done on April 19," he told the Hindustan Times.
"Both the mother and child are in good health."
Ms Devi's husband, aged 72, had also wed his wife's sister after 10 years of his first marriage did not result in children.
His second wife also failed to become pregnant.
It was not clear whose egg and sperm were used in the successful treatment.
"We longed for a child all these years and now we are very happy to have one in the twilight years of our life," Ms Devi told the Times of India.

Headline: Men Are Red-Faced, Women Greenish
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Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Green Under The Gills

There's a new color palette for sex, and it's Christmas-y.
New research suggests while male faces are red, female faces have a greenish tint.
The results, detailed online this week in the journal Psychological Science, suggest that along with other facial cues, such as shape, color can be used to pick out a guy from a gal.

Headline: Field Trips Nixed After Students See Classmate Autopsy
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Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: We Know That Stiff

PONTIAC, Mich. — A medical examiner's office in Michigan has canceled public school tours after a high school group watched the autopsy of a 14-year-old girl from their district.

The Detroit News reports Monday that Oakland County officials decided to stop the tours in Pontiac after they were contacted by the girl's parents, who were very upset about the March tour.

Mike Zehnder, the county's director of public services, says it was "a poor decision" to let the tour go on.

Headline: Rhino escapes zoo pen in search for love
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Horny

A RANDY rhinoceros escaped its enclosure today and went looking for love - but has been sedated near a perimeter fence.
The escapee - an 18-year-old male white rhino named Satara - was reported to have escaped Monarto Zoo, east of Adelaide, around just after 1pm (CST) today.

Relieved zoo keepers then reported the amorous animal lacked an adequate sense of direction and was not able to gain access to the female object of his desire, AdelaideNow reports

Headline: Man stole police car to sell its tyres
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Dumb Ass

A MAN who stole an empty police car crashed it into a garbage dumpster at the end of a two-hour joy ride
"When I found the car and I saw it had the key in the ignition, well, I just got in," foiled car thief Alejandro Juarez said in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

"I was thinking about taking off the tyres so I could sell them," he said.

"But then I was thinking first I would take it for a spin - and then bam, I got a bit distracted and crashed," Mr Juarez said.

Headline: 'Tis the season to dump grannies - doctors
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Bye, Bye Grannies

ELDERLY Victorians are being dumped in hospital emergency departments as their relatives go on holidays.

Frontline hospital staff have lifted the lid on the shocking practice of "granny dumping", saying it is on the increase and peaks over the Christmas period.

There are calls for an urgent inquiry as worried emergency department workers warn the practice is robbing genuine patients of vital beds.

Last Monday, a woman in her 70s was delivered by ambulance to the Northern Hospital's emergency department, where her relatives requested she stay for three weeks.

Headline: By order of the Grinches of Granite City...Christmas is cancelled
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 7.12.8
Caption: A Council of Grinches

Published Date: 07 December 2008
By Eddie Barnes
DING DONG Miserably On High. Welcome to Christmas Aberdeen-style.
Local politicians in the Granite City have slashed £100,000 from their annual Christmas budget this year, claiming they need to save money rather than lay on extravagant celebrations to mark the festive period. A new nativity scene has been axed, free panto tickets for the poor have been stopped and the council children's party has been suspended amid claims that in previous years the public didn't get involved. But critics last night accused the councillors responsible for the decision of having "cancelled Christmas". They also contrasted the decision to cut £100,000 from Christmas spending with council plans to lavish £80m on a new headquarters.

Headline: Crimials watching CSI for tips
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 7.12.8
Caption: CSI Crime 101

AUSTRALIA's top forensic investigator believes criminals are watching CSI-style television shows to learn how to outsmart detectives.
Dr James Robertson, head of Forensic and Technical Services with the Australian Federal Police, said the programs were helping criminals become more "forensically aware" of crime and better informed about covering their tracks.

He made the concession last week as he prepared to give a keynote address on DNA testing in homicide investigations.

Dr Robertson also said DNA analysts around the country "need to do their job better" and avoid collecting DNA samples in an "unintelligent" way.

The emergence of popular crime dramas, like CSI: Miami and City Homicide, which feature the latest techniques and analysis, have "let the rabbit out of the hat" for criminals, he said, giving savvier crooks a tactical advantage over police investigators.