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Family Holidays A woman has given birth inside a toilet at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital, her husband said this morning.
Kathy Patsidis’s baby was born at 4pm yesterday, after she was repeatedly told there were not enough staff at the hospital, her husband Nick Patsidis said on radio 2UE this morning.
The incident comes less than [...]

Then the Yankees drafted Hughes%26#8217;s son, also named Phil, in 2004. Hughes reveled in the Red Sox%26#8217; championship that season, but then made a break with the team of his youth.%26#8220;We just said, %26#8216;Well, all the Red Sox memorabilia comes down off the walls now, as long as you%26#8217;re a Yankee,%26#8217; %26#8221; Phil Sr., [...]

She has worked as prosecutor for the Outagamie County district attorney’s office and has handled family law, business litigation, employment law and personal injury litigation for a private firm. She also served as claims council for American Family Mutual Insurance and as a consultant for Lawrence University on sexual harassment and sexual assault.
During that time, [...]

Watching Grigori Drobot among his English-as-a-second-language classmates, the only thing one can be certain of is that he is happy. He is the opposite of what people with his condition are expected to be: antisocial and egocentric.Drobot, 19, a newcomer from Belarus, has a mild level of autism, says his doctor, Helen Chekna. But that [...]

The hundreds of used cheques and heaps of discarded motor insurance claim forms are shunted along the conveyor belt to be gobbled up by the hungry mouth of “BB”, the vast blue recycling machine. Watching wide-eyed from the nearby viewing platform is a group of year 4 pupils from St Christopher’s Roman Catholic primary school [...]

The president of York University wants to open a new $150 million medical school that would focus almost entirely on training family doctors to help fill the shortage in Ontario.And Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman says he favours the idea.After a speech to [...]

LONDON–As a Toronto-area family stands vigil at a British hospital awaiting word on the fate of their critically injured daughter, they issued a warning last night to all Canadian travellers on the life-or-death price of tragedy abroad.Michelle Senayah, 23, who suffered a fractured skull, swelling and bleeding of the brain last Thursday in a scooter [...]

Microsoft executives, in a conference call, characterized the announcement as a %26#8220;strategic shift%26#8221; in the company%26#8217;s business practices and its handling of technical information. They also portrayed the moves as only partly a nod to the continuing challenge Microsoft faces from Europe%26#8217;s antitrust regulators. The broader goal, they said, is to bring Microsoft%26#8217;s [...]

Playground politicsThose wondering whether Ed Balls (the new prime minister’s most devoted lieutenant) and Lord Adonis (the old prime minister’s closest education adviser) can really work together should be reassured by a picture, which was taken last July on a joint visit to the TreeHouse special school for children with autism in Muswell Hill, north [...]

PERTH (Reuters) - Heath Ledger was remembered at a private
memorial service in his Australian home town on Saturday, with
fellow actor Cate Blanchett giving a eulogy and Ledger’s father
thanking his son’s fans for their support.Ledger, 28, best known for his role as a conflicted gay
cowboy in the 2005 movie “Brokeback Mountain,” died of an
accidental overdose [...]