Woman gives birth to own grandchildren

SAO PAULO, Brazil - A 51-year-old surrogate mother for her daughter has given birth to her own twin grandchildren in northeastern Brazil, the delivery hospital said

Rosinete Palmeira Serrao, a government health worker, gave birth to twin boys by Caesarean section on Thursday at the Santa Joana Hospital in the city of Recife, the hospital said in a statement on its Web site.
Hospital officials were not available for comment on Sunday, but press reports said the grandmother and twins were discharged on Saturday in excellent health. The Caesarean section was performed about two weeks ahead of time because Serrao was having trouble sleeping, the statement said.
Serrao decided to serve as a surrogate mother after four years of failed attempts at pregnancy by her 27-year-old daughter, Claudia Michelle de Brito.
Brazilian law stipulates that only close relatives can serve as surrogate mothers. De Brito is an only child and none of her cousins volunteered, so Serrao agreed to receive four embryos from her daughter.

World Tallest Man Vs Shortest Man

Tallest man in the world, Bao Xishun met up with He Pingping who claims to be the world’s shortest man and they both hail from the same region of Inner Mongolia. They shook their hands in the photoshoot and He Pingping looked drastically tiny when in comparison with Bao Xishun. Bao Xishun was recently married to a 28 year old saleswoman from his hometown and was confirmed last year as the world’s tallest man while He Pingping seeks to be registered as the world’s shortest man although he could be disappointed by the current holder of the title Lin yih Chin who was measured at 67.5cm opposed to He Pingping’s 73cm. 2 more pics after the jump

Miss Arab World

Miss Arab World 2007

Congratulations to Miss Bahrain who has just won the Miss Arab World beauty contest in Cairo.
It's wonderful to see how a modest glimpse of flesh can instantly bridge the East-West divide, as evidenced by the comment from Daily Mail reader Ken from Suffolk

Cairo, July 28 (Xinhua) The title of Miss Arab World 2007 went to Miss Bahrain here Saturday after nearly six hours of contest.Wafaa Yaakoub, a 23-year-old teacher from the Law Faculty of Bahrain University, won the title, while the first runner-up was 25-year-old Miss Egypt Shaimma Mansour and Miss Lebanon Abeer Layous, 23, became the second runner-up.After being crowned by Miss Arab World 2006 Claudia Hanna from Iraq, Yaakoub said she was very happy to win the title.

Asked whether she would continue her teaching career after winning, Yaakoub hesitantly nodded in affirmation.Earlier, Miss Egypt, Mansour, who is a football referee, said she was attending the contest to promote Egypt's tourism and sports.Seventeen women from 15 countries attended the final competition at the closing ceremony of the second Miss Arab World Contest.The competition is one of the major attractions of the second Arab Tourism Festival, which opened here Wednesday.The jury consisted of fashion, beauty and tourism experts as well as academies, and the finalists were chosen from more than 10,000 participants who registered through the Internet, according to the contest's organising committee.The first Miss Arab World Contest was held in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh from July 26 to 29 last year.