PANAMA CITY – YEAR-OLD Siamese twin girls connected at the abdomen were surgically separated on Tuesday by a team of 50 doctors from Panama and Argentina, in Panama’s first medical operation of this kind. ‘We’re very happy because the surgery was very difficult and complex. It took many months of preparation, but it’s yielded results,’ […]
Month – December 2010
Children to be taught about animal welfare
A $2.1 million program, designed to slash children’s chances of being mauled, will be rolled out for students aged five to seven from next year. Role play, computer games, and real dogs will help show pupils how to act near dogs. “Bringing a well-supervised dog into the classroom will help reinforce the importance to students […]
Australia and New Zealand top World Giving Index’
The happier people are, the more likely they are to give time or money to charity, the largest ever study into global charitable behaviour suggests. The survey – conducted by the UK’s Charities Aid Foundation – suggests that well-being is a more reliable indicator of philanthropy than wealth. The survey took place in 153 countries, […]
Japan-S Korea festival to be held in Tokyo
This is a good step in improving relations between the two nations as traditionally relations has been sour. An annual event aimed at promoting exchanges between Japan and South Korea through culture will be held in Tokyo on Oct 2 under the theme of enjoying diversities and rejoicing consonances, the event’s organizer said. The ‘‘Nikkan […]
China to launch next lunar space mission
China is on track to launch its second lunar satellite by year’s end, as the country pursues its plans for a manned mission to the moon by 2020, state media said Friday. Preparations for the launch of the Chang’e-2 probe, which will go into orbit within 15 kilometres (nine miles) of the moon, are going […]
Limbless man swims Channel
A FRENCHMAN who lost all his limbs in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel on Saturday, a challenge he has been preparing for two years, his support team said. Philippe Croizon, 42, set off from Folkestone in southern England just before 8am and arrived on the French coast near Wissant just before 9.30pm, […]
Global hunger declines for first time in 15 years
The number of global hungry has declined by nearly 10 percent, the first drop in the number of undernourished since 1995, the UN food agency said in its annual report on Tuesday. A total of 925 million people are undernourished in 2010 compared with 1.023 billion last year, revealing a drop of 9.6 percent, according […]
John Lennon’s 70th celebrated
NEW YORK: A crush of fans circled a flower-graced mosaic in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields and sang lyrics from “Imagine” on Saturday to honor Beatles legend John Lennon on his 70th birthday. On the day when the Liverpool Lad would have become a septuagenarian, thousands of fans from around the world gathered to remember the […]
Boy, 9, is chess ‘master’
A NINE-year-old California boy has become the youngest-ever chess “master” in the United States. Samuel Sevian, of Santa Clara, earned the title after a match in San Francisco. The United States Chess Federation, the governing body of competitive chess, gave him a rating of 2201 after the December 11 match. A rating of 2200 qualifies […]