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10-year-old Mexican girl gives birth to baby boy after 31-week pregnancy

10-year-old Mexican girl gives birth to baby boy after 31-week pregnancy - Country's laws prohibit abortion procedures for children under 12 A 10-year-old Mexican girl has given birth to a baby boy after a 31-week pregnancy, according to reports. The premature infant, which weighed 3.3 pounds, was born by Caesarian section at the Women’s Hospital in the city of Puebla and is in the intensive care unit recovering from pneumonia. The young mother, who is from the nearby San Francisco Totimehuacan...

Antarctic Blue Whales Found With Sound

Antarctic Blue Whales Found With Sound - Whales may be the biggest animals on Earth, but finding them in the vast open ocean isn't easy. Now, an Australia-led research team has demonstrated a novel idea for chasing down the massive marine mammals. To search for Antarctic blue whales, the group dropped sonar buoys in the Ross Sea west of Antarctica, and listened for whale calls. They triangulated the whale's location from their calls, and then sailed to the right spot. The blow hole of an...

Cameras Capture Tigers Trekking Through Wildlife Corridor

Cameras Capture Tigers Trekking Through Wildlife Corridor - A camera trap has captured photos of two healthy tigers using a protected corridor in the Kerala province of southwest India this year, evidence that the pathway could help populations of the endangered animals. The first photo shows an adult male tiger in very good health that has just preyed upon a gaur, also known as an Indian bison, according to a release from the World Land Trust, which funded the creation of the protected area....

Why the budget iPhone would throw the smartphone market into chaos

Why the budget iPhone would throw the smartphone market into chaos - The buzz around the budget iPhone has grown deafening, with new reports about the device coming out on a weekly basis. This will be a product launch with a unique impact because of two trends that define the current smartphone market. First, the overall smartphone volume growth is projected to slow down from more than 50% in the fourth quarter of 2012 to about 36% in Q4 2013. Second, the Q4 2012 growth rates of the three biggest...

China's first lady sparks homegrown fashion frenzy

China's first lady sparks homegrown fashion frenzy — New Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan's choice of attire has sparked a flurry of excitement over an independent homegrown label, an unusual phenomenon in a country where political figures are more frumpy than fashionable and wives usually shy away from the spotlight. Images of Peng, 50, stepping off a plane arm-in-arm with her husband President Xi Jinping in Moscow on Friday have circulated widely on the Chinese Internet, prompting praise of...

Earth to Mars rover, Curiosity: Have you landed?

Earth to Mars rover, Curiosity: Have you landed? - On Sunday night, millions of miles away, a nail-biter of a landing will be executed — or not — on Mars. The Mars rover, Curiosity, which has been traveling to the distant planet for the past eight-and-a-half months, will land on the red planet by remote control. To stick the landing, the car-size rover must successfully slow down from 13,000 mph to zero in seven minutes, or "Seven Minutes of Terror," as the wildly popular video from NASA...

'Convincing' Proof of Monster?

'Convincing' Proof of Monster? - George Edwards, a Scottish skipper who spent decades searching for the beast said to inhabit Loch Ness, claims to have finally spotted his elusive quarry and gotten what he calls photographic proof of the monster. On Nov. 2, 2011, Edwards photographed what appears to be a single hump in the water from the deck of his boat, "Nessie Hunter." Edwards said that "It was slowly moving up the loch towards Urquhart Castle and it was a dark grey color. It was quite a...