Sweden's Oldest Twins Turning 100
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They have lived for 200 years between them, but Sweden's oldest pair of twins had never seen anything like this before. Holding up a birthday cake and two bouquets of flowers, Siri Ingvarsson and Gunhild Gaellstedt seemed bewildered by the number of photographers huddled around them in the living room of Gaellstedt's Stockholm apartment earlier this week.
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The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three Americans yesterday, including Leonid Hurwicz, a 90-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, the oldest person ever to win a Nobel.
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LONDON - A 67-year-old woman who is believed to be the world's oldest new mother told a British Sunday newspaper she lied to a U.S. fertility clinic - saying she was 55 - to get treatment. Carmela Bousada said in her first interview since she gave birth to twin boys on Dec.
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Marianne Fredriksson, one of Sweden's best known and most translated authors, has died at the age of 79, Swedish media quoted her agent as saying on Sunday.
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Today, three days before her 57th birthday, Aleta St. James is scheduled to have a boy and a girl, making her the oldest American woman to have twins.
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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden, recognized as the world's oldest person, died Monday in a nursing home, the home's administrator said. She was 116. Bolden was born Aug. 15, 1890, according to the Gerontology Research Group, a Los Angeles organization that tracks the ages of the world's oldest people.
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Sweden has returned to Aboriginal elders the remains of 15 of their ancestors taken from Australia for scientific research a century ago.
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"This is my sister, my darling baby   sister," said Simon Glasberg through tears as he hugged Hilda   Shlick, 75, who he had not seen for 65 years since their family   split up in a bid to flee the Nazi Holocaust.
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Doctors said a 66-year-old Romanian woman became the world's oldest woman recorded to give birth when she delivered a daughter by cesarean section. The child's twin sister was stillborn, they said.
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Royalty, scientists, business leaders and diplomats began gathering in the capitals of Sweden and Norway on Friday for the traditional twin ceremonies honoring the year's Nobel Prize winners from Kenya, ...
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1. Ingemar Stenmark, Sweden: 86 2. Hermann Maier, Austria: 53
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STOCKHOLM, Dec 30  The final tally of Swedes killed by the Asian tsunami could be more than 1,000, Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson said today.
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A 67-year-old Romanian today became the oldest woman ever known to have given birth, although one of her twin girls died shortly afterwards, Bucharest's Giulesti Hospital said, in a report carried by a TV ...
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ATLANTA Dec 14, 2004 - Two twin sisters are seeing double or make that quadruple after delivering two sets of twin boys Tuesday. Twenty-one-year-olds Ashlee Spinks of Indianapolis and Andrea Springer of
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Sweden returned to Aboriginal elders the remains of 15 of their ancestors taken from Australia for scientific research a century ago.
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A 67-year-old retired Romanian university teacher, Adriana Iliescu, is seven months pregnant with twins after almost a decade of treatment in fertility clinics, the private television state Realitatea TV reported.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Hundreds of Swedes paused outside a department store Saturday to remember their former foreign minister, a popular politician who was stabbed and killed by a mentally ill man while shopping one year ago.