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Solar plane lands in New York City

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...
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Doctors in Switzerland separated eight-day-old conjoined sisters, believed to be the youngest babies to be successfully parted

The twins, born in December, were fused at the liver and chest.  Swiss media say doctors had originally planned to separate them when they were several months old but brought the operation forward when they each suffered a life-threatening condition.  The operation reportedly carried a 1% chance of success.  The twins, named Lydia and Maya, were born eight weeks premature at the Inselspital hospital in Bern, along with a triplet who was fully separate and healthy. The hospital said the twins were "extensively conjoined on the liver, but had all vital organs". They weighed just 2.2kg (4lb 14oz) together. One of the twins had too much blood, and very high blood pressure, while the other one did not have enough.  A 13-strong medical team took five hours to separate the girls on 10 December.  "Such small conjoined siblings had never been successfully separated before," the hospital said.The head of paediatric surgery, Steffen Berger, paid tribute to th...
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Mum can't wait for chemo after baby born 12 weeks early

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 sai...
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