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Lori and George Schappell, conjoined twins whose skulls were partially fused but who managed to lead independent lives, died April 7 in Philadelphia. There were 62 of them.Their deaths, which occurred in hospital, were announced by a funeral home, which cited no cause.Dr. Christopher Moir, a professor of surgery at the Mayo Clinic, who was part of teams that separated six pairs of conjoined twins - although none of them were joined at the head - said that when one of the Schappells died, the other would have to almost certainly followed quickly.“Conjoined twins share circulation,” he said, “so unless you somehow emergently split their connection, it's absolutely a fatal process and not viable.”The Schappells lived much longer than expected when they were born as craniopagus twins, joi...

Huw Edwards, one of the BBC's most high-profile hosts who was suspended last year over allegations he paid for explicit images, resigned from the broadcaster on Monday.Mr Edwards, 62, led the BBC's coverage of major national events, including the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. He started as a trainee in 1984 and by the end of his career was the regular presenter of "BBC News at Ten".He was suspended by the BBC in July after tabloid The Sun reported that an unnamed host at the station had paid a teenager $45,000 for sexually explicit images, starting when the person was 17. Mr. Edwards' wife later publicly identified her husband as the host. in the report. The age of consent in Britain is 16, but sharing or possessing indecent images of anyone under 18 is a crime.La...

A new wave of AI-created child pornography threatens to overwhelm authorities already held back by antiquated technology and laws, according to a new report released Monday by Stanford University's Internet Observatory.Over the past year, new artificial intelligence technologies have made it easier for criminals to create explicit images of children. Now, Stanford researchers warn that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit that serves as the central coordinating agency and receives the majority of its funding from the federal government, lacks the resources to combat the growing threat .The organization's CyberTipline, created in 1998, is the federal clearinghouse for all online reports of child pornography, or CSAM, and is used by law enforcement to ...

Israeli authorities said they arrested two men on Monday in Jerusalem after a vehicle was used to ram pedestrians, injuring at least three people, in what police called a terrorist attack.video of the episode broadcast on Israel's Channel 12 shows a car speeding around a sharp bend and colliding with a group of people, who fly over the roof of the vehicle. Images Data shared on social media by police shows a white sedan had crashed into another car on a small street.According to the video, after hitting pedestrians, the vehicle appears to have crashed into a parked car. Two young people then ran into the street, pointing weapons, before fleeing the area.Police said the two men were arrested at a nearby store that was closed and that the weapon used in the attack had been recovered.It ...

Nei suoi tre decenni di lavoro con gli elefanti marini, la dottoressa Marcela Uhart non aveva mai visto nulla di simile sulla scena avvenuta lo scorso ottobre sulle spiagge della penisola argentina di Valdés.Era l'alta stagione riproduttiva; la spiaggia avrebbe dovuto pullulare di harem di femmine fertili e di maschi enormi in lotta tra loro per il dominio. Si trattava invece di “carcasse su carcasse su carcasse”, ha ricordato il dottor Uhart, che dirige il programma sanitario per la fauna selvatica dell’America Latina presso l’Università della California, a Davis.L'H5N1, uno dei tanti virus che causano l'influenza aviaria, aveva già ucciso almeno 24.000 leoni marini sudamericani lungo le coste del continente in meno di un anno. Ora era arrivato per gli elefanti marini.I cuc...

The Ukrainian lieutenant was in a firing position on the Eastern Front, commanding an artillery unit that relied on American-supplied M777 howitzers and other large guns, as U.S. lawmakers gathered in Washington to decide whether its guns would were forced to remain silent due to lack of ammunition. .But when the lieutenant returned to his base Saturday evening, he received word that he and millions of Ukrainians had been praying to be heard.“I had just entered the building after the shift change when the guys informed me that the aid package for Ukraine had finally been approved by Congress,” said the lieutenant, identified only by his first name, Oleksandr, in compliance with military protocol. . “We hope that this aid package will reach us as soon as possible.”The decision by America...

Wesselman-Pierce lived with her husband, Vince Pierce, and her two children. “I didn't want to lose our friendship, no matter what,” a tearful Wesselman-Pierce told Schulman in the film. “Many of the personalities that emerged were just fragments of myself.”At the end of the documentary, a brooding Pierce recalled a story he'd heard and, in turn, gave the film — and the expression — his name. Cod, he said, was once shipped in vats from Alaska to China, but the fish arrived soft and tasteless. Catfish were eventually added to the tanks to keep the cod healthy. “There are those people who are catfish in life,” he said. In his mind, his wife was one of them. “They keep you guessing, they keep you thinking, they keep you fresh.”Life, he added, would be "boring and monotonous if ...

Terry Anderson, the American journalist who was the longest-held Western hostage in Lebanon when he was finally released in 1991 by Islamic militants after more than six years of captivity, died Saturday at his home in Greenwood Lake, New York, in Hudson Valley. . He was 76 years old.The cause was apparently complications from recent heart surgery, said his daughter, Sulome Anderson.Mr. Anderson, Beirut bureau chief for the Associated Press, had just dropped off his tennis partner, an AP photographer, at his home after an early morning tennis match on March 16, 1985, when men armed with guns broke open the door. the door of his car and pushed him into a Mercedes-Benz. The same car had tried to cut him off the day before as he was returning to work from lunch in his seaside apartment.The...

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The revelation that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug seven months before the Tokyo Olympics, but were secretly allowed to continue competing, has exposed a bitter and sometimes deeply personal rift within the sport, and has brought fresh criticism to the global authority that oversees drug testing.A New York Times investigation has uncovered previously unreported details of the 2021 episode, in which a contingent of Chinese swimmers, including nearly half the team China sent to the Tokyo Games, tested positive for a drug for the heart prohibited by prescription that can help athletes increase endurance. and reduce recovery times.Within hours, the disclosure of an incident that had remained secret for more than three years had sparked strong reactions from athletes, co...