Thieves are likely responsible for the disappearance of seven rare alligators from the same brood as the alligator pictured here in São Paulo, Brazil, on January 4, 2008, authorities say.Link
The extremely rare alligators are worth about $9,700 apiece, according to the director of the zoo that lost the reptiles.
Rio de Janeiro - After a 23-year-long stomach ache, a Brazilian woman finally discovered the cause of her suffering - a scalpel had been left in her stomach.p/s: perghh ... lepas 23 tahun tu ...
Local media reports said on Monday that a knife had been found in Maria Abadia Dias' lower abdomen after doctors took an X-ray in the central Brazilian town of Goiania, in the state of Goias.
The five-centimetre-long scalpel was apparently left there by doctors in a public hospital in Campos Belos, Goias in 1984, when the woman, now 47, gave birth through a C-section.
The surgical instrument is to be removed sometime later this month. The woman has said she will sue the hospital in Campos Belos as soon as she is rid of the scalpel.
"Doctors always told me that I had nothing and that it was only a question of age," the woman said of her persistent stomach pain. - Sapa-dpa
Woman delivers 'giant' baby in Brazil:A woman in Brazil gave birth Wednesday to a boy that doctors have nicknamed "giant baby." The infant weighs 17 pounds, about the average size of a six-month-old. He was delivered by Caesarean section.
The boy's 38-year-old mother is diabetic, a condition which can commonly cause women to give birth to larger babies. The boy, named Ademilton dos Santos, is receiving oxygen due to breathing problems and is being given an intravenous glucose solution to maintain a safe blood sugar level.
The director of the hospital in Cajazeiras, an area in north eastern Brazil, said the boy is otherwise in good health. Doctors say the mother Francisca Ramos dos Santos is feeling well after her surgery.
The boy's father and four sibilings were reportedly surprised at the news.
He is the heaviest baby ever born in Brazil, according to Brazilian medical officials.
