Imagine the surprise of a black Nigerian couple in London when they discovered their newborn baby was a white girl.

No, it's not the second coming of Michael Jackson.

Professor Bryan Sykes, the head of human genetics at Oxford University, tells the British newspaper The Sun there's a perfectly reasonable scientific explanation for this sort of phenomenon: These things happen.

But they don't happen often. Ben and Angela Ihegboro tell the newspaper they didn't think they had any white ancestry, but Sykes says there must be a white skeleton in one of their family closets for Angela to give birth July 19 to a California surfer girl.

Newborn Nmachi has blue eyes and blond hair that would put Paris Hilton to shame.

Angie Cromer got pregnant -- while she was pregnant.

The Murray, Utah, woman was born with two uteruses. That means her babies will not be twins. They likely will be born a few days apart from two separate pregnancies.

KLS, the NBC affiliate the Salt Lake City, reports the odds of that happening are about one in five million.

Such births are extraordinarily rare, Cromar's obstetrician, Dr. Steve Terry, tells the station.

"Probably less than a hundred so far worldwide have been reported," he says. "So she's a member of a very small elite club."

Britain's "fattest" town is trying to drop its dubious distinction -- along with some pounds.

More than 11 percent of the residents of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, are obese, and now the government is promoting a healthy living initiative. At the Carnegie Club, up to 20 obese children ages 4 to 17 come to work out and take nutrition classes each Sunday, Britain's The Mirror reports.

Professor Paul Gately, the club's director, says they've never offered the program to children so young before, which shows how serious the obesity epidemic is.

"Every parent I meet wants to help their child overcome their weight problem," Gately says. "But they need guidance."

If you want to know if he loves you so, it's in his kiss.

That works for boyfriends. But if you want to know if your kid can play the cello, it's in his genes.

Step right up, folks. Be the first on your block to get a handy-dandy, gen-u-wine at-home genetic test kit. Not only can you learn what horrible diseases your child might get later in life, you can learn what your kid's natural talents are, too.

Is he a born ballet dancer or accountant? Let one of these kits tell you.

They're all the rage. Seriously.

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It's standard operating procedure for a parent with fighting kids: If you're feeling particularly energetic, you stop to figure out who did what and maybe even who started it (or not), and then you send your kids to their room.

Turns out, it's time to throw away that parenting manual.

A researcher from the University of Illinois says that approach is not the best one for raising siblings who can get along. By focusing on the conflicts between kids, parents are preventing them from learning how to work things out, Laurie Kramer, professor of applied family studies, writes in the journal Child Development Perspectives.

"Even if you're successful at reducing conflict and antagonism, research suggests that you'll probably be left with little positive interaction between siblings," Kramer says in a statement. "Do you really want your kids to head for their rooms and spend time mainly on their own interests and with their own friends?"

After a mother was asked to leave a Kentucky restaurant for breast-feeding, she came back -- to protest.

Corday Piston was breast-feeding her 6-month-old daughter on the patio at Johnny Rockets in Newport, Ky., just outside of Cincinnati, when a manager asked Piston to move to a public bench. She said it was too hot, so the manager suggested she breast-feed in the bathroom. Piston rejected the option as disgusting, and the manager then asked her to leave because she was making people uncomfortable, ksdk.com reports.

The experience prompted Piston to call on other breast-feeding moms to organize protests of Johnny Rockets locations nationwide. About a dozen moms protested at the Johnny Rockets in Newport July 18, with signs with messages such as "Public breastfeeding is legal" and "Mothers are not second class citizens," local12.com reports.

There used to be a time when paper routes and babysitting were as a part of the teen experience as pep rallies and Clearasil.

In Arizona, where I grew up and where my parents still live, my mom tells me that the middle class teenagers in her suburban neighborhood don't do the menial jobs that my siblings and I did to earn spending cash.

Gone are the fliers that used to come to her door at the beginning of each summer advertising lawn and babysitting services by entrepreneurial youths. Instead, the teens in her neighborhood have all the spare time and gadgets of their wealthy peers. Like rich kids of another generation, an increasing number of middle class kids also spend their summers free of chores and responsibilities; while they luxuriate by the pool or socialize incessantly on their laptops and cellphones, foreign-born maids clean the house and a team of subcontractors swoops in once a week to the mow the lawn and clean the pool.

Leaving aside the heated debates about illegal immigration and the wage distortions created by cheap labor, I wonder what the long-term impact of all this leisure will be on the resourcefulness and work ethic of America's middle class kids, the demographic our nation has always depended on to power our economy. Are we really doing them a favor by liberating them of work and chores? Or are we setting them up for failure when they enter the cold, competitive global market?

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A rural school district that canceled its prom rather than allow a lesbian student to attend with her girlfriend has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit the ACLU filed on her behalf.

The district also agreed to follow a non-discrimination policy as part of the settlement, though it argues such a policy was already in place.

Constance McMillen, 18, said the victory came at the price of her being shunned in her small hometown of Fulton.

"I knew it was a good cause, but sometimes it really got to me. I knew it would change things for others in the future and I kept going and I kept pushing," McMillen said in an interview Tuesday.

The flap started in March when McMillen challenged the Itawamba County School District's rules banning prom dates of the same gender and allowing only male students to wear tuxedos. The district responded by canceling its prom, prompting the ACLU to file suit claiming the teen's rights had been violated and demanding the prom be reinstated.