A 51-year-old grandmother gave birth to her own twin grandchildren, by becoming a surrogate mother. According to a hospital official, the grandmother was identified as Rosinete Palmeira Serrao, a government health worker. She gave birth to twin boys by Caesarean section at the Santa Joana Hospital in Recife city.

In Japan, the Internet café has become a substitute for home. A survey of Japan's ministry of health indicated that the number of people who sleeps over at 24-hour Internet cafes for having no home or job total 5,400 nationwide, the Kyodo News reported. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's findings disclosed on Tuesday reveals what could be a widening of the rich-poor gap in Asia's richest country.

In an attempt to get rid of countless stray dogs lurking around roads, the city council in the Indian capital of New Delhi has proposed a new idea of shipping them to Korea, where dog meat is widely consumed in soup. The problem of stray dogs is so widespread that the council is also planning to drug the canines to make them sleep through out the day, so they do not hinder traffic movement. If this was not enough to make you wonder about the future of stray dogs, the officials also expressed their desire to send all the dogs to neighboring states, so that "Delhi can be saved. "

A Modesto California Police Animal Control Officer has arrested a couple for keeping a horse and seven dogs inside their home. Joe Silva and Nichole Surkala were also accused of endangering a 12-year-old child after officers found the floor covered in animal feces and rotting produce.

When Michael Moylan of St. Lucie County, Florida, awoke Monday night with a severe headache, he thought perhaps his wife had elbowed him in his sleep. Worse, he thought, he could be suffering from an aneurysm. He asked his wife to drive him to the emergency room, where the nurse informed him that, in fact, there was a bullet lodged in his head.