A newborn baby abandoned outdoors in winter by her 14-year-old mother was found safe in a dog pen with a mother dog and her brood of puppies near the city of La Plata, Argentine media reported.
Farmer Fabio Anze found the naked baby girl on Thursday, being kept warm among his dog China's puppies, La Nacion newspaper said. Mr Anze called the police and the baby was taken to a hospital.
Egidio Melia, director of the Melchor Romero hospital, told television and newspaper reporters that the baby was just a few hours old when she was found, and was in good health in spite of bruises.
Night-time temperatures are chilly but not freezing in the southern hemisphere winter in the rural area around La Plata, 60 kilometres south of Buenos Aires.
Police said they had located the 14-year-old girl who gave birth to the baby outdoors during the night.
Teenage DNA sleuths expose NY fish fraud
Up to a quarter of fish in stores and restaurants in New York City was mislabelled as a more expensive variety, according to samples collected by two US teenagers and tested with modern genetic identification methods.
In the worst cases, two samples of filleted fish sold as red snapper, caught mostly off the southeast United States and in the Caribbean, were instead the endangered Acadian redfish from the North Atlantic, according to the tests, revealed yesterday.
"We never expected these results. People should get what they pay for," Kate Stoeckle, 18, said of the project with Louisa Strauss, 17.
The two classmates from New York's Trinity School collected and sent off 60 fish samples to the University of Guelph in Canada. Of 56 samples identified by a four-year-old DNA identification technique, 14 were mislabelled.
In all cases, the fish was labelled as a more costly type, apparently ruling out simple chance.
Satellites track kidnap victims with chips
Wealthy Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them tied up in a safe house or stuffed in the trunk of a car.
Kidnapping jumped almost 40 per cent between 2004 and 2007 in Mexico according to official statistics. Mexico ranks with conflict zones like Iraq and Colombia as among the worst for abductions.
The recent kidnap and murder of Fernando Marti, 14, the son of a well-known businessman, sparked an outcry in a country already hardened to crime.
More middle-class people are also seeking out the tiny chip designed by Xega, a Mexican security firm whose sales jumped 13 per cent this year. The company injects the crystal-encased chip, the size and shape of a grain of rice, into clients' bodies with a syringe. A transmitter then sends signals via satellite to pinpoint the location of a person in distress.
Disgraced Glitter back in England
Gary Glitter, a British singer who spent three years in a Vietnamese jail for child sex abuse, returned to London yesterday after failing to find sanctuary in Asia.
Famous in the 1970s and 1980s for songs such as Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again and I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am), he arrived at Heathrow Airport after an overnight flight on Thai Airways from Bangkok. He was met by police and escorted away under the flashing bulbs of a pack of paparazzi photographers.
At a court hearing outside London hours after his arrival, his lawyer failed in a bid to prevent him having to sign the sex offenders' register, a list of convicted paedophiles kept by the police. His lawyer David Corker said the ruling could be appealed.
"He tells me that his trial in Vietnam - a country which has been condemned by virtually every organisation concerned with justice and human rights as being a system of unfair justice and political trials - was a charade, was a travesty of justice," Dr Corker told reporters. "He never got a fair trial and in due course that will be expanded upon."
Reward to stamp out Guinea worm
Niger is to offer a reward of just over €7 to anyone who reports a case of Guinea worm to authorities as part of a global effort to eradicate the painful waterborne parasite, the health ministry said yesterday.
The Sahel state is one of the African countries still afflicted by the spaghetti-like parasite worm, which can grow up to one metre long and pushes out of the host's skin through blistering, pus-filled wounds to deposit larvae.
The burning pain sends many victims into the nearest available water for relief and unless boiled or filtered the contaminated water is likely to infect those who drink it.
Niger's health ministry announced the reward of 5,000 CFA francs (€7.67) would also be given to sufferers of the parasite who identified themselves to officials within 24 hours of the disease appearing and who had not contaminated a water source.
The worm, which usually breaks out of the flesh in the legs or feet, rarely kills by itself, although secondary infections from the wound can be deadly. But the parasite drains energy and nutrients and hampers movement.