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Image copyright AIIMS Image caption The twin boys were separated after 16 hours of surgery Surgeons in the Indian capital, Delhi, have separated twin boys who were conjoined at the tops of their heads. Two-year-old Jaga and Kalia underwent 16 hours of surgery, and are now in the intensive care unit, doctors said. A team of 30 doctors carried out the surgery - the first of its kind in India - at a state-run hospital. The boys were born with shared blood vessels and brain tissues, a very rare condition that occurs once in about three million births. The director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Randeep Guleria, told the Press Trust of India that the "next 18 days would be extremely critical to ascertain the success of the surgery". The twins, hailing from a village in eastern Orissa state, were joined at the head - a condition known as craniopagus. Even before the operation they had defeated the odds; craniopagus occurs in one in three million bir...

Image copyright RICHARDSON POLICE DEPARTMENT/FACEBOOK Image caption The disappearance of the three-year-old sparked off a massive search Police in Texas say they have found a body in the search for three-year-old Sherin Mathews, who went missing on 7 October when her father sent her out of their home at 03:00 as punishment. The Richardson police department told reporters the remains were "most likely" those of Sherin, whose disappearance made headlines in Dallas and India. The Indian-origin couple adopted the girl two years ago from an Indian orphanage. Police have not given any details of how she may have died. The body was found in a tunnel about half a mile from her home on Sunday. The area is being "treated as a crime scene", police said. The Press Trust of India news agency reported that an identification process was under way, but police said they had "no reason" to believe the body was of any other child. Sherin's father, Wesley Ma...