Taxi driver delivers baby in car
Nedal Haddad of Chicago understood his new job as a cab driver entailed delivery — taking passengers from one point to another, that is. He couldn’t have imagined it involved delivering babies.
That’s what happened Friday, about a week into his new job, when the 37-year-old picked up a pregnant...

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Models at catwalk in Karachi Karachi: Models at catwalk with latest dress prepared by Marium Faisal Ameen at a fashion exhibition. app

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Square inch of land for sale
A tiny parcel of land in southwest Indiana is some of the priciest real estate in the world. Owen County officials are trying to sell a 1-square-inch plot of land for $1,500. At that rate, an acre of land would cost nearly $7 billion.
No buyers ponied up for the postage-stamp-sized plot during...

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Largest single rock in the world ULURU: A heart-shaped cave adorns the face of Uluru, the largest single rock in the world. afp

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Girl born with heart in hand fights to live
Indian doctors are struggling to save a baby girl born with an external heart which she was holding in one of her hands at the time of her birth, a doctor said on Sunday.
“The baby has a fully developed external heart between her neck and collar bone. She was holding her heart in her right hand...

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Shichi-Go-San Festival TOKYO: Little girls traditionally dressed up are all smiles at Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine to mark the Shichi-Go-San Festival to celebrate when children reach the ages of 3, 5 and 7. afp

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Boy launches McDonald’s boycott
A 10-year-old Canadian boy has called for a boycott of US fast food chain McDonald's in hopes of hastening an end to the deep rift over lumber trade between Canada and the United States.
Taking the trade impasse into his own hands is Luke McAndless of Vancouver, who along with a 13-year old...

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Police respond to burglary call, find pot
In retrospect, it probably wasn’t such a good idea to call the police. Ronald Meyers summoned officers to his home in an upscale neighborhood Thursday morning, claiming that someone was trying to open his windows and that he could hear voices outside.
Responding officers found no burglar but...

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