Aug. 8, 2008, will not only mark the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics here but also the wedding day of about 9,000 Chinese couples. The number is a new record because it is twice more than the previous single-day marriage record in Beijing, according to China's state-run news agency Xinhua.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has found an Internet phone call center at fault for misdirecting an ambulance in a 911 call that caused a baby's death. With the CRTC investigation of Melvin and Khadija Luck's complaint finding that Comwave's 911 call center agent failed to confirm the new address of the family's home in Calgary, the couple plans to sue the company for damages.

A Romanian immigrant in Abbotsford, British Columbia is the center of media attention after she gave birth to her 18th children in 23 years - a feat being tagged as the province's most productive mother in 20 years. Canadian Press reported that 44-year-old Livia Ionce and her husband Alexandru, 51, welcomed their 18th children, Abigail, last Tuesday.

Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, celebrated her 30th birthday on Friday. Despite being well known, Brown just wants to live a modest life.

Suspicious wives from Persian Gulf states are eyeing cosmetic stores in Kuwait that sell a magic potion to catch cheating husbands. Several women, including some from Bahrain, are on the waiting list to purchase Ka-Fashto, which translates to "key to truth," an herbal medicine that claims to detect cheating husbands by their odor.