Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 15.4.9
Caption: Changing face
The wife of a Massachusetts man whose tissue was donated for the nation's second face transplant said her husband told her before heart transplant surgery that he wanted to donate his organs if he didn't survive the operation.
Susan Whitman told The Boston Globe for a story in Wednesday's editions that she was surprised, however, when organ bank officials asked if she would approve of the donation of Joseph Helfgot's face.
PHOTOS: FACE TRANSPLANTS (WARNING: Contains some graphic photos)
Whitman and their four children held a conference call and quickly agreed it was the "right thing to do."
Helfgot, 60, learned to appreciate the value of life from his Holocaust survivor parents, friends and family said.
Headline: Doctors 'find tree in man's lung'
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 15.4.9
Caption: Excuse me sir, you seem to have a tree growing inside you.
SURPRISED surgeons performing a lung cancer operation apparently found a 5cm fir tree growing inside the patient.
The Daily Mail reports doctors thought Russian man Artyom Sidorkin, 28, had a tumour after he complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood.
The x-ray image shows what looks like a large tumour in his lung.
During the operation, surgeon Vladimir Kamashev said he thought he was hallucinating when he saw the fir tree needles inside the tissue.
Medical staff said the 5cm tree is too big to be swallowed and believe Mr Sidorkin had inhaled a seed which later sprouted.
Headline: Mums and babies break out of jail
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 15.4.9
Caption: The Great Escape
SIX mothers escaped with their newborn babies from a prison maternity ward, say authorities in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.
The fugitive mothers were recaptured after they used improvised knives to overpower guards and drugged guard dogs to flee the secure facility, Associated Press reports.
Headline: Woman's 'mid-air sex romp' next to son
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 14.4.9
Caption: Sex Education
A MOTHER accused of having a mid-air sex romp with another woman's boyfriend reportedly had her young son beside her at the time.
Clare Irby, 29, allegedly pleasured Daniel Melia, 36, under a blanket as his drunken model girlfriend lay passed out next to them, The Sun reported.
Clare’s son James, two, was said to be curled up alongside on the Bangalore-Heathrow flight. It is believed he was asleep.
Model Sarah Hannon, 35, screamed as she woke up and found the pair being stopped in the act by hostesses.
The trio were arrested at Heathrow and child care was found for James.
Ms Irby and student Mr Melia, 36 were arrested for gross indecency, while Ms Hannon was held for being drunk on an aircraft.
Headline: Money Stuffed in Bra Saves Woman From Bullet
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 14.4.9
Caption: A Real Wonder Bra
A Brazilian woman survived being shot in the chest Saturday by robbers because cash she had stashed in her bra absorbed the impact of the bullet, the Telegraph reported.
Ivonete Pereira, 58, was riding a bus in the northeast Brazilian state of Bahia when it was held up by armed robbers.
Aware of frequent highway robberies, Pereira had stuffed $67 in cash in the left cup of her bra.
During a shootout with a police officer, a stray bullet hit Pereira in the chest.
The cash was enough to absorb enough impact of the bullet to save her life. She was still taken to the hospital to have the bullet removed.
Headline: Husband 'fleeced wife using spy lies'
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 14.4.9
Caption: Fleeced right down to the budgie
A MAN allegedly fleeced his new wife of her life savings before telling her she faced being killed by ASIO.
Single mother Karen Roberts believed she had met the man of her dreams when she bumped into Wayne David Charters at the Ulysses Motorcycle Club at Mornington, south of Melbourne, in February 2003.
They shared an interest in dolphins, motorcycle riding, art and spirituality.
The Melbourne Magistrates Court was told today that Ms Roberts believed her new partner lived an exciting double life as an ASIO agent whose cover was to work as a carpet layer in suburban Melbourne.
Within a few months the couple was married and Mr Charters allegedly convinced Ms Roberts to sell everything she owned so they could relocate overseas.
Ms Roberts obliged and in statements tendered to the court she described selling her house, which she believes was valued at $280,000, her car and even a pet budgie.
Headline: Girl Born 22 Years After Father's Sperm Frozen
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 14.4.9
Caption: How old is the girl in 'sperm years'?
A former leukemia patient who had his sperm frozen as a teenager has fathered a baby after doctors successfully thawed his sample a record 22 years later.
Chris Biblis was 16 when doctors told him that he needed radiotherapy that would leave him sterile and recommended before going ahead with the life-saving treatment that they put a sample of his sperm into cryogenic storage for future use.
Now aged 38, he is celebrating the birth of a healthy baby daughter, Stella, who was conceived after scientists injected a defrosted sperm into an egg from his wife, Melodie, and implanted it in her uterus.
The 22-year lapse between storage in April 1986 and conception in June 2008 is a world record, according to specialists at the U.S. fertility clinic who carried out the procedure.
Headline: Passenger lands plane after pilot dies
Origin of Clip: CNN.com 13.4.9
Caption: You Can Fly
It's a nightmarish scenario straight out of the movies: A passenger is forced to land a plane after its pilot becomes incapacitated. But it became a reality for a passenger on board a plane over Florida on Sunday, and for the air traffic controllers who helped him land safely in what the National Air Traffic Controllers'
Headline: Norwegian sex at 100mph
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 13.4.9
Caption: Speed Sex 100MPH
The unnamed couple, a 28-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, were caught in the act late on Easter Sunday by traffic police on the E18 highway, some 25 miles west of Oslo.
Officers who clocked the couple's silver Mazda 323 racing at 133 kilometres per hour in a 100 zone realised they were doing more than just breaking the speed limit, police told AFP.
It was veering from one side to the other because the woman was sitting on the man's lap while he was driving and doing the act, shall we say," said Tor Stein Hagen, a superintendent with Soendre Buskerund district police.
"He couldn't see much because her back was in the way," he added.
"Why they did it on a highway with such a high risk we don't know."
After following the couple for nearly a kilometre, officers pulled the car over at a service station.
"We have taken away his driving licence because of the danger that he caused," Mr Hagen said.
Headline: Bomb Squad Called In to Defuse ... Prosthetic Leg
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 13.4.9
Caption:
HILLSBORO, Ore. — A scary situation turned into a strange one when a bomb squad determined that a suspicious package left outside the Washington County Sheriff's Office contained a prosthetic leg.
Sheriff's Sgt. Vance Stimler said deputies called the Portland bomb squad out to Hillsboro Sunday afternoon after noticing a canvas bag with a cylinder-shaped object sticking out.
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