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SANDUSKY, Ohio — Police say a dispute over the freshness of french fries got heated at a McDonald's in northern Ohio. Authorities say a customer refused fries waiting Sunday night in their serving pouches at the restaurant near Sandusky. The manager insisted the fries were fresh. Police...

Assoc Press Dec 28 CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dared the United States to expel his ambassador or cut off diplomatic ties in retaliation for his rejection of Washington's choice for ambassador to Caracas. Tensions have been growing over Chavez's refusal to accept...

Assoc Press Dec 28 CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The last remaining police officer in the Mexican border town of Guadalupe has disappeared, and prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state said Tuesday they have started a search for her. Twenty-eight-year-old officer Ericka Gandara held out despite...

As I said in my opening post - this is a very emotive subject Maybe you just have to carry life within you to understand that one

Assoc Press DEC 28 HONOLULU — Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere. Abercrombie was a friend of Obama's parents and knew him as a child, and is...

But is it right? Should we not let nature take its course in cases like this? Is it right to bring a child into this world who's sole purpose is so that they can be used for the sake of another human being? I use the phrase "sole purpose" because and I quote ... "... taking cells...

:D Thank you so much for the really kind words - I wish I could take all the credit but I can't, the writings are the BBC's :p. I simple try to look for new & hopefully interesting topics that, as you have stated, can be a little on the lighter side of today's fraught world.

A few more "Lost in Translation" ..... enjoy :D On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: Our wines leave you nothing to hope for. On the menu of a Polish hotel: Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef...

BBC News A particular type of ancient rock art in Western Australia maintains its vivid colours because it is alive, researchers have found. While some rock art fades in hundreds of years, the "Bradshaw art" remains colourful after at least 40,000 years. Jack Pettigrew of the...

Lets get back to the OP shall we....... Having a baby for the only reason of saving a sibling - right or wrong in your opinion?

ROFL they must all do it - ours seems to say "WHAT! another bath already" :D And agreed on the healthcare - they don't have to worry if they have a pre-condition do they.

This is a very emotive subject indeed, but what about the embryo's that didn't "qualify" ? CARE Fertility in Nottingham carried out IVF treatment, taking cells from the three day old embryos and testing each one for the disease and also checking if it was a suitable match for the transplant...

BBC News Dec 28 It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international...

BBC News Christmas dinner traditionally centres on the turkey or goose. But if US scientists have their way, everyone may be sitting around a printer. The team at Cornell University's Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL) are building a 3D food printer, as part of the bigger Fab@home...

BBC News UK's first 'saviour sibling' treatment A nine year old girl from Norfolk has had a life-saving transplant from a so-called saviour sibling. Megan Matthews would have died but for tissue donated by her baby brother Max. It's the first time that the entire treatment has been...

Update on this story BBC NEWS DEC 28 Khodorkovsky trial: Russia hits back at West Russia has accused Western nations of exerting "unacceptable" pressure over the trial of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Russia's foreign ministry was reacting to criticism by the US and...

BBC News Dec 28 Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish have become parents to a son born to a surrogate mother in California. Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born on Christmas Day, the UK musician told the Usmagazine.com website. "Zachary is healthy and doing really well...

According to the Canadian Press, the inscription on the metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag migratory birds has been changed. The bands used to bear the address of the Washington Biological Survey, abbreviated: "Wash. Biol. Surv." . . . until the agency received the...

BBC News Dec 27 The US and Germany have voiced serious concerns about a second guilty verdict against the jailed Russian former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man and considered a political threat to PM Vladimir Putin, was convicted at a new Moscow...

But you should have seen these wriggling maggots OMG .... s'cuse me back in a mo ........