A bride walked down the aisle with her baby 11 hours after she gave birth. Nicky Heys' baby came three months earlier on the eve of her wedding. But she still arrived on time for the matrimonial church service. The eleven hours old baby, Harry, weighed in at only 1 lb 12 oz (800 grams). The 35-year-old secretary said she thought her stomach pains were caused by nervousness as a result of her impending nuptials. When she was rushed to a hospital, the labor pains increased.

One of the main backers of London Fashion Week Sunday rejected British government calls for a ban on wafer-thin models as the fashion industry faced a furor over its catwalks. Marks and Spencer chief executive Stuart Rose, who is chairman of the British Fashion Council that is organizing the event starting Monday, tells Reuters, "Outright bans and indeed legislation is definitely not a route we want to go down. "

The Friends of the Asian Elephant, a leading conservationist in Thailand on Monday accused the government of damaging the nation's endangered Asian elephant population by approving a proposal to swap five of them and other animals with white tigers at a Chinese zoo. Zoraida Salwala, secretary of the group revealed the government has approved a plan to swap some 29 animals, including five elephants and several chimpanzees with two rare white tigers and dozens of other animals.

The US Army has denied a proposal to develop a military theme park on a Virginia Army base - a few miles from the nation's capital. The AP reports that a Florida developer wanted to establish a park at Fort Belvoir in addition to plans for a new National Museum of the United States Army scheduled to be built at the base by 2011.

On Thursday, an independent candidate for Governor of Texas dropped her lawsuit to have her nickname appear on the ballot in November. Carole Keeton Strayhorn stated that the legal battle would have been a distraction in her bid to become the state's governor.