A St. Petersburg man got firemen to clean his bathroom Thursday morning after he mixed cleaners that unintentionally produced a deadly gas.

Michael Newton, 44, wanted a spic and span bathroom so he poured together bleach and an ammonia-based cleaner. What he got was chlorine gas, whose fumes have been used as a weapon to kill large groups of people since World War I.

In what authorities are calling "contagious fear," more than 30 people were taken to the hospital in Texas after a woman sprayed strong perfume in a Texas bank.

The pungent smell was initially reported as a carbon dioxide leak at the Fort Worth Bank of America branch, prompting a response from firefighters and other emergency officials, including a hazardous materials team. They soon realized the real culprit was strong perfume, according to various local media accounts. Carbon dioxide is odorless.

A baby girl with two heads was born Tuesday in a hospital in Manila, Philippines. Doctors said Wednesday the newborn was in stable condition but may not likely survive.

A 28-year-old mother delivered the baby by cesarean section at the Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital. The baby was later transferred to the Philippine Heart Center because of a heart defect.

A New Zealand biotech firm will implant insulin-producing pig cells on into eight diabetics as part of its continuing test of the new treatment for Type 1 diabetes.

Volunteer patients at the Middlemore Hospital in Auckland will be implanted with Living Cell Technologies' branded Diabecell in their abdomens, where it will secrete pig insulin to control their blood sugar levels. With the implants, the patient need not get insulin by injection.

An airman stationed in California who went in to a hospital for a routine gall bladder operation has ended up losing both of his legs to amputation.

Surgeons at Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base accidentally punctured Airman 1st Class Colton Read's aorta during a July 9 operation to remove his gall bladder. Because the critical vein was severed, he lost blood to his legs and lower body and his legs could not be saved.