Doctors removed a 2-pound tumor from the back of a newborn's neck and the baby girl appeared to be doing fine Friday, her parents said."The first thing we want to do is hold her head," the baby's father, Joshua Whittington, a 31-year-old pharmacist from Denver, told the Rocky Mountain News.Addison's story unfolded quickly when her mother, Kari Whittington, visited her doctor's office Monday and an ultrasound detected the fast-growing, grapefruit-sized tumor. No abnormalities were detected in the previous ultrasound a month earlier.Pediatric surgeon Steven Rothenberg said the growth, called a cervical teratoma is rare and occurs in about 1 in 50,000 births. The blood-swollen tissue and veins made up 40 percent of Addison's weight....
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 Turk govt condemns army threat to intervene in poll |
Turkey's Islamist-rooted government condemned on Saturday an army threat to intervene in the nation's presidential contest while the EU and the United States urged a peaceful resolution of the crisis. The army, which has ousted four governments in the past 50 years, issued a toughly worded statement on Friday expressing concern over the election and said it was ready to act in defense of the secular system separating state and religion. Government spokesman Cemil Cicek's attack on the army marked an escalation in an election row pitting Turkey's secular elite, including the powerful army generals, against a government they accuse of trying to increase the role of Islam in politics. "Turkey's problems will be solved in the framework of the law, there is no other way ... The chief of the General Staff is answerable to the prime minister," Cicek told a news conference....
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| New problems, few voters in Nigerian poll re-run |
Ballot papers were stolen and voters intimidated when Nigeria re-staged polls for hundreds of state and federal legislators' seats on Saturday after elections widely condemned as fraudulent.The April 14 and 21 polls delivered a landslide victory for the People's Democratic Party (PDP), which has ruled Africa's most populous nation and biggest oil exporter for eight years. But international observers said the elections were not credible and the opposition has rejected the results. The electoral body had rescheduled elections for some seats in 26 of the 36 states, in places where the earlier polls were cancelled due to massive irregularities. In one state, southeastern Imo, the election for governor was rescheduled. ...
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| Helicopter Crash on Busy Street Kills 9 in Philippine City |
An air force helicopter crashed onto a busy street in a central Philippine city Saturday, killing at least seven people on the ground and one airman aboard the aircraft.The Vietnam War-era UH-1H Huey helicopter pinned a motorcycle taxi, and its spinning rotors hit another on the street in the Pajo district of Lapu-Lapu city on the central island of Mactan, DZBB radio reported.A radio reporter at the scene said the helicopter's rotors "chopped up" the taxi and dismembered its passengers.An initial police report had said that seven people were killed, and that all four crew members on the aircraft were injured and brought to a hospital. Air force spokesman Lt. Col. Epifanio Panzo said one airman later died....
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| Polygamous lesbians flee Sharia |
A Nigerian lesbian who "married" four women last weekend in Kano State has gone into hiding from the Islamic police, with her partners. Under Sharia law, adopted in the state seven years ago, homosexuality and same-sex marriages are outlawed and considered very serious offences. The theatre where the elaborate wedding celebration was held on Sunday has been demolished by Kano city's authorities. Lesbianism is also illegal under Nigeria's national penal code. Nigeria's parliament is considering tightening its laws on homosexuality. Kano's Hisbah board, which uses volunteers to enforce Islamic law, told the BBC that the women's marriage was "unacceptable". The BBC's Bala Ibrahim in Kano says Aunty Maiduguri and her four "wives" are thought to have gone into hiding the day after they married....
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| U.S. foreign aid chief quits after admitting use of escort service |
Indiana native Randall Tobias abruptly resigned Friday from his State Department post overseeing most U.S. foreign aid, after telling ABC News that he used a Washington D.C. escort service.The Associated Press also reported, based on information from two people familiar with the situation, that Tobias' name surfaced in an investigation of an escort service and that the decision to resign was his own. ABC News reported late Friday that Tobias said in a Thursday interview that he had used the Pamela Martin and Associates escort services for massages, but said he said there had been "no sex."In a statement released late Friday afternoon, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice cited "personal reasons" for the departure of Tobias, a former head of Eli Lilly and Co., who served as director of U.S. foreign assistance and head of the U.S. Agency for International Development....
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