London, November 9 : A 38-year-old sterile woman is due to give birth to the world’s first baby conceived after a full ovary transplant.
A woman will soon deliver a child conceived from transplanted ovaries - a major breakthrough in infertility treatment that will make it first of its kind.
The woman, who became infertile after attaining early menopause aged 15, had been implanted with healthy ovaries taken from her twin sister making it possible for her to become pregnant without IVF aid.
The Londoner, who had been suffering with osteoporosis since her teen years, saw her periods return after the pioneering procedure led in the US by Dr Sherman Silber, at the Infertility Center of St Louis in Missouri.
London, November 9 : A Brit woman, who’s a sex addict, has told how her insatiable appetite for sex drove her to sleep with 1,000 men.
The 25-year-old, who insists that her appetite for sex is nothing less than an illness, admitted that her addiction led her to turn towards the Internet as the hunting ground – no matter if the men turned out to be ugly.
“That’s another sad parts of this problem — my desire for sex overrides any quality control issues,” News of the World quoted her as saying.
“It doesn’t matter to me how it happens or what they look like and it’s a bonus if they’re well-endowed,” she added.
London, Nov 9 : Staff at a Brit town hall have been banned from using the phrase "Singing from the same hymn sheet" as it could upset atheists.
Employees of the Salisbury council have been told that the religious implications of the saying, which has been in common phrasing for centuries, could offend non-believers.
"Avoid office and council jargon wherever possible, including phrases such as ''moving forward'' and ''singing from the same hymn sheet''," the Telegraph quoted the Salisbury council as advising.
Besides the religious sounding phrase, other phrases like ''colour blind'', ''black'', ''British'', ''West Indian'' were also asked to be avoided as they could offend people.
London, Nov 9 : BBC was forced to change an apology to Andrew Sachs over the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand scandal after the actor complained that it was not directly referring to his wife and daughter.
The apology, which was broadcasted on Radio 2, had to be reworded by the Corporation after 78-year-old Sachs complained saying that the two had been deeply hurt by the affair.
Sachs telephoned the BBC after listening to the first of two planned broadcasts of the statement and asked for the second apology to be changed.
“Mr Sachs asked us to specifically include mention of his wife and family in the second broadcast apology at 9.03 pm and we were happy to do this,” the Telegraph quoted a BBC spokeswoman as saying.
London, Nov 9 : Fans inspired by the Lord of the Rings films are making their own movie ‘Born Of Hope’, which has a 25,000 pounds budget, and is being made in the UK.
None of those who are taking part in the making of the movie are getting paid for it, but the Middle Earth subject matter has attracted people from around the globe to join the team, including some of the film''s original cast and crew, Sky News reported.
The low-budget production, which is due for release sometime in November 2009, has according to its backers been well received at many conventions and exhibitions worldwide after a trailer from the test shoot in April 2006 was shown.
London, Nov 9 : Fans inspired by the Lord of the Rings films are making their own movie ‘Born Of Hope’, which has a 25,000 pounds budget, and is being made in the UK.
None of those who are taking part in the making of the movie are getting paid for it, but the Middle Earth subject matter has attracted people from around the globe to join the team, including some of the film''s original cast and crew, Sky News reported.
The low-budget production, which is due for release sometime in November 2009, has according to its backers been well received at many conventions and exhibitions worldwide after a trailer from the test shoot in April 2006 was shown.