Britain allows TV ads for abortion clinics
Britain's broadcast advertising body has given the go-ahead for private abortion clinics to advertise their services on television, angering those who say that the move desensitizes the public to the practice.
The Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice said Friday that there was no justification for barring private clinics that offer post-pregnancy services, including abortions, from advertising on television. Nonprofit post-pregnancy services are already allowed to advertise on television, and their for-profit counterparts are allowed to advertise in all other media.
Death toll hits 143 in Nigeria attack
A coordinated attack by a radical Islamist sect in north Nigeria's largest city killed at least 143 people, a hospital official said Saturday. It was the extremist group's deadliest assault since beginning its campaign of terror in Africa's most populous nation.
Soldiers and police officers swarmed Kano's streets as Nigeria's president again promised the sect known as Boko Haram would "face the full wrath of the law."
Friday's attacks hit police stations, immigration offices and the local headquarters of Nigeria's secret police in Kano, a city of more than 9 million people.
Gunmen kill 4 Iraqi security forces
Gunmen killed two Iraqi soldiers and two police officers in a series of shootings Saturday in the latest attacks amid an escalating political crisis.
The two soldiers were killed when assailants fired on an Iraqi military patrol in the former al-Qaida stronghold city of Fallujah.
Another attack took place in the predominantly Sunni town of Hawija, a former insurgent stronghold 150 miles north of Baghdad.
Exiled president's return is thwarted
Madagascar's toppled president tried to end his exile in South Africa Saturday, but his commercial plane was forced to turn back mid-flight when his landing was blocked by the populist former disc jockey who toppled him.
Ex-President Marc Ravalomanana has been exiled in South Africa since being toppled in 2009. When he tried to return last year, he was stopped at the Johannesburg airport after aviation authorities in Madagascar wrote to say he was not welcome.
On Saturday, the politician who toppled him with military backing, Andry Rajoelina, issued a notice closing the country's main airports to prevent the former leader's return.
Triple transplant is world's first
A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday performed the world's first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said.
At the same time, a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the coastal city of Antalya, transplanted the face of the same donor onto another patient — a 19-year-old man. It was Turkey's first face transplant.
From wire reports
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