A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
Ally Louise Smith was born by C-section on Friday weighing just 2lb 5oz after her mother, Heidi Loughlin, was told she had to bring her treatment forward."I want to fast-forward now until March when she will be coming home and my chemo will be over," she told.Photographs of Ally, who is being treated in the neo natal intensive care unit, were released on Tuesday. Ms Loughlin, a Metropolitan Police officer, from Portishead, North Somerset, told "It's almost like lifting a piece of toast, that's how tiny she feels. "She came out crying, which we really didn't expect because she is so little."Ms Loughlin found out she had inflammatory breast cancer when she was 13 weeks pregnant.
Doctors gave her the option of terminating the pregnancy to begin aggressive chemotherapy. But Ms Loughlin, who also has two little boys, decided to have the less aggressive chemotherapy to give the baby the best chance. After the treatment failed, doctors said the risk to her was so big it was better to bring the birth forward.
Ms Loughlin said: "I would never do anything differently, she is worth every second of it." She is due to start chemotherapy on 23 December, if she is sufficiently recovered from the Caesarean section.
"I'm looking forward to getting on with it now and to kicking this thing so that I can basically just get on with a normal life really." "The bit that I'm dreading the most is going home for the first time and leaving her here... I'm dreading that part of it."
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