An 11-year-old Romanian girl who was raped by her uncle when she was 10 and is now 21 weeks pregnant will have an abortion in the United Kingdom. The family of the girl accepted an offer from a London-based Romanian woman to sponsor the abortion even though a government committee in Romania decided Thursday to allow the abortion in the country.

A sudden baby boom among students at Gloucester High School here has taken town officials by surprise. An investigation has revealed that the 17 high school girls expecting babies are part of an apparent teenage "pregnancy pact. "School officials became suspicious in early October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. After questioning, nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.

Nearly five hours after being stillborn following a pre-mature delivery, an infant started breathing again to life when the relatives were carrying her to cemetery. The 30-year-old mother Aruna Gaikwad from western-Indian city of Mumbai was admitted to Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital on June 15 after being refused from three reputed city hospitals. She suffered from convulsions resulting from high blood-pressure in her pregnancy in the seventh month of gestation.

An immigrant family from the Philippines boarded a flight on Monday and forgot their two-year-old child at the Vancouver international airport and only found out that the tot was missing when an airline company called during the family's trip. According to the boy's father, Jun Parreno, they had just arrived in Canada from the Philippines and they were running late on a connecting flight to Winnipeg when the mixed-up happened.

survey by Abbey banking revealed that 70 percent of most British parents believe that choosing the right name for their children could influence their future success or failure. The survey showed that 32 percent or a eight million parents think that the right name can give a child confidence, while a further two million think it will help their children's career prospects.