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The publisher does not permit any reposting of materials so I have only provided a link to a very moving article telling the stories of several babies that have survived abortions. Some of them are now adults and able to speak out for themselves and for the little ones that lack voices of their own yet.

A survivor whose suffering symbolised the horror of the London bomb attacks is improving every day, her sister says. Newly-released pictures of the Davinia Turrell show the beautiful trainee barrister in her graduation gown. But she is known to the public - and the world - as the woman in the white surgical mask who was photographed stumbling from Edgware Road Tube station. A picture of her, bloodied and still clinging to her handbag, is one of the atrocity's most memorable images. The 24-year-old' sister Louise Wells described the improvement in Davinia's condition and said she was even "laughing and...

Last Updated: Monday, 4 July, 2005, 18:36 GMT 19:36 UK   Two missing US troops 'are dead'   The US launched a major hunt for the missing men Two of the three US special forces soldiers missing in eastern Afghanistan for almost a week have been found dead, US government sources tell the BBC.The whereabouts of the other team member remains unclear, while a fourth soldier was found alive on Saturday. The governor of Konar province has spoken of reports that an American is being cared for in a remote village. The US launched a major hunt for the...

MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY - One of 16 survivors of a 1972 Andes plane crash made famous by the book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read has gotten his wallet and jacket back 32 years. Eduardo Strauch, who survived 72 days in mountain snows, got the aged wallet, drivers license and other personal items Wednesday, a week after they were found in the Andes by a mountain climber. Mr. Strauch, 57, was aboard a flight with fellow rugby players, relatives and friends when their plane crashed high in the Andes on Oct. 12, 1972.

Perth, Scotland (LifeNews.com) -- A Scottish woman has filed a lawsuit against a hospital over an abortion she had in 2001. The abortion was performed on twin unborn children and one of the babies survived the failed procedure. Jayde, the baby who survived, is now three years old and her mother, Stacy Dow, is filing suit for damages. She's seeking the cost she will incur of raising Jayde, an estimated $600,000 plus. "I have got a child now that I wasn't planning to have and I believe the hospital should take some responsibility for that," Dow told a London newspaper....

It's Thursday and that means another episode of Survivor: Palau is set to air tonight. I watched the first two Survivors but tired of the show and stopped watching until picking it up again this season. I must say that I have really enjoyed the show this season. So, any guess who will be voted off the island tonight? Also, one castaway supposedly will be exiled tonight. Who will that be?

LITTLE Abraham Marshall was left alone at home for three days with his murdered father's body. Three-year-old Abraham is thought to have survived on biscuits after father Scott was beaten to death. His gran Betty, 72, who is now looking after him, said yesterday: "I want the person who has done this to be put away for a long time. A person who could leave a little boy for that amount of time in those circumstances is pure evil." Little Abraham had nothing to drink and couldn't use the phone or turn on the lights. It is believed the confused...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) -- One of 16 survivors of a 1972 Andes plane crash made famous by a book and movie has gotten his wallet and jacket back 32 years after leaving them in the mountain snows. Eduardo Strauch, who survived 72 days in high mountain snows, received the aged wallet, drivers license and other personal items Wednesday, a week after they were found in the Andes by a mountain climber. Strauch, now a 57-year-old architect and father of five, was aboard a flight with fellow rugby players, relatives and friends when their plane crashed high in the Andes on...

RICHMOND, Va. - A 9-year-old boy who nicknamed his brain tumor "Frank" and whose mother launched an online auction to help pay for his medical bills is now cancer-free, his mother said Tuesday. "Frank is dead!" an elated Tiffini Dingman-Grover said by telephone from her Sterling home as the family prepared to head to a press conference in Washington, D.C. David Dingman-Grover had most of his tumor removed Feb. 2 at the Skull Base Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The family learned the results of a biopsy on the tumor at midnight Monday. The family was crowded...

BUENA VISTA, Pa. — A school bus driver encouraged students to jump around, throw things and misbehave on her moving bus so she could make an audition videotape for the reality television show "Survivor," police said. Maureen Monaghan was charged with recklessly endangering children after allegedly urging 10 students to act up on her bus for the video, which she hoped would earn her a spot on the CBS show. A separate camera on the inside of the bus recorded the Jan. 6 incident, and the bus company gave the footage to police. "She encouraged the children to be disorderly...

A woman who said she survived on wild fruits for 45 days after tsunami waves ravaged the Andaman Islands has been rescued, police said. The 18-year-old woman was rescued on Wednesday from Pillopanja, one of the southernmost islands of the archipelago ravaged by the towering waves on December 26, the police chief of nearby Campbell Bay island said. He identified the woman only as Jessy and said her husband and her one-year-old child were missing, presumed dead. Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation estimates around 40,000 pregnant women were left homeless following the devastating tsunamis around the Indian Ocean, and have...

A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it. Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains. He told them that after the avalanche, he had opened his car window and tried to dig his way out. But as he dug with his hands, he realised the snow would fill his car before he managed to break through. He had 60 half-litre bottles of beer in...

Shortstop-Turned-Marine Survives Nine Bombings in Iraq, Becoming Cult Figure in His UnitBy Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press Writer Published: Jan 29, 2005 ASKAN, Iraq (AP) - The first time Lance Cpl. Tony Stevens was bombed in Iraq, a car packed with 155 mm shells exploded next to his Humvee just as a device containing five more shells detonated beneath it. By bomb No. 9, the former shortstop in the Minnesota Twins' farm system had become a good luck-bad luck icon and the awe of his 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment patrolling the so-called "triangle of death" south of Baghdad. With a...

CNN.com Marine survives 9 bombs He's coming a cult figure in his unit ASKAN, Iraq (AP) -- The first time Lance Cpl. Tony Stevens was bombed in Iraq, a car packed with 155 mm shells exploded next to his Humvee just as a device containing five more shells detonated beneath it. By bomb No. 9, the former baseball minor league shortstop had become a good luck-bad luck icon and the awe of his 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment patrolling the so-called "triangle of death" south of Baghdad. With a couple of weeks remaining in his second tour of duty in...

He thought he was going to die. He was having trouble breathing. As he lay wedged under a train seat and metal debris, he scrawled with whatever energy he could summon and a heartbreaking economy of words a farewell in blood on the seat. "I (heart) my kids. I (heart) Leslie," he printed. The blood ink seemed to be running out as he got to the second sentence

PORT BLAIR, India - Waving a flag made of his clothes, a tsunami victim dressed only in his underwear was rescued after surviving alone for 25 days on a flattened island in India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, authorities said Saturday. The tale of survival reached Port Blair, the archipelago's capital, on Saturday as authorities slowly restored communication links with faraway islands. A total of 1,899 people were declared dead across the Andaman and Nicobar islands following the Dec. 26 tsunami, and at least 5,553 remain missing. Hope has run out for most of the missing. But on Saturday, officials on...

Jan 18, 2:18 PM (ET) BOSTON (Reuters) - He survived one of the toughest tests of reality television but now Richard Hatch, the first winner of the U.S. TV series "Survivor," is facing his toughest challenge yet. Hatch failed to report the $1 million he won on "Survivor," federal prosecutors said on Tuesday as they charged him with filing false tax returns. The 43-year-old Hatch, whose brash strategizing propelled him to victory in 2000's "Survivor" series on CBS, is charged on two counts in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Providence, Rhode Island. Prosecutors said Hatch not only...

Richard Hatch, the first winner of CBS's "Survivor," was charged today with failing to report his $1 million reality TV windfall to the Internal Revenue Service. The below two-count criminal information, unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, charges Hatch with filing a false 2000 tax return that omitted his seven-figure "Survivor" winnings. The nudity enthusiast, 43, is also charged with filing a false return for 2001 (he allegedly did not report $321,000 paid to him by a Boston radio station). If convicted of the felony charges, Hatch could face a maximum of five years in prison for...

SURVIVOR: PALAU premiering Thursday, February 17 at 8 pm ET/PT. Greetings Survivor FReeks! Its time once again for a new season of Survivor! “Twenty Americans are stranded in Palau, the South Pacific paradise some call the 8th natural wonder of the world, where colorful wildlife, dense jungles and an underwater world beyond belief are haunted by the wreckage and remnants of World War II. From the beginning, the game will be changed in a dramatic way: everything the Survivors have come to expect will be wiped out in the first 10 minutes. Who will outwit, outplay, and outlast all...

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