October 26, 2011
ZAGREB — Doctors in a Croatian hospital removed a perfectly healthy kidney from a 56-year-old woman scheduled to have spinal surgery after a mix-up in the hospital, local dailies reported Wednesday.
"Unfortunately it is true. The hospital is talking to the patient and (her) family about compensation," Health Minister Darko Milinovic was quoted by the Jutarnji List daily as saying.
The mistake occurred when two women patients with the same family name and almost identical first names were admitted to a hospital in the southern Adriatic town of Dubrovnik, the paper said.
A probe to establish the cause of the mistake, that occured last month, is underway.
NYC performance artist gives birth in art gallery
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK — A performance artist who said giving birth is the "highest form of art" has delivered a baby boy — inside a New York City art gallery
The Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn said Marni Kotak gave birth to a healthy infant, weighing 9 pounds, 2 ounces, and 21 inches long.
The 36-year-old artist had set up a home-birth center at the gallery, turning the space into a brightly decorated bedroom with ocean blue walls and photo-imprinted pillows.
The gallery said in a statement that "Baby X" was born at 10:17 a.m. Tuesday. It didn't say how many people witnessed the birth or give any other detail.
The gallery said a video of the birth will be added to its upcoming exhibition.
It's not a UFO, it's the moon
By Gaby Leslie, Yahoo!
The anonymous man from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, described a brightly-lit UFO with a hole hovering over his house and coming towards him.
The caller, who was recorded by Hertfordshire Police, appears to be confused about it on the phone.
However, the operator treats his account seriously and assures him that she has logged it and will get it checked out.
After realising his error, the local man called back two minutes later to apologize to an exasperated operator.
In nervous laughter, he says: “I made a mistake. I thought I saw something really strange, but I didn't. You won't believe this, you won't believe it. It's the moon.”
Hertfordshire Police posted the audio footage online yesterday of some of the calls that were made earlier this month.
Jason Baxter, assistant manager at the force communications room, said: “While the caller here may not have been phoning out of malice, his call still tied up valuable police resources and time for something which was not an emergency.
“It also illustrates the kind of bogus call we might receive to 999, whether as a hoax or an inappropriate call.”
Police made the calls public as a reminder before Halloween that making a bogus call can stop important 999 calls from getting through.
The maximum penalty for hoax call offences is up to six months imprisonment and a £5,000 ($8,003) fine.
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