U.S. Surgeon Gary Hartman Separated Conjoined Filipino Twin Sisters at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto

Conjoined Twins Angelina (C) and Angelica (L)

SAN FRANCISCO – Two conjoined Filipino sisters were successfully separated by U.S. surgeons in a California hospital on Tuesday (Nov. 01).

According to details; 2-year-old sisters Angelina and Angelica Sabuco, who were joined at the chest and abdomen at the time of their birth, were separated after 8-hour surgery at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in the northern city of Palo Alto.

After the twin sisters shifted to separate operation theatres for further surgeries needed, the hospital’s spokesperson Reena Mukamal said, “The surgeons are happy with the progress of the operation so far.”

The twin sisters, who turned two in August, were joined at the chest and belly but have separate brains, hearts, kidneys, stomachs and intestines.

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British-born Singer Beryl Davis Died at 87 in Los Angeles

Beryl Davis Died at 87 in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES – British singer Beryl Davis died in Los Angeles on Friday at the age of 87.

Greg Purdy, family spokesperson, told the Los Angeles Times newspaper that she passed away on Friday from complications of Alzheimer's disease.

Beryl Davis, a popular singer during World War II, was born in Plymouth and started to perform, when she was just three, with her father and band leader Harry Davis.

After singing on Bob Hope’s radio show, she became a celebrity in U.S. She was also honored to sing along Frank Sinatra on the radio show Your Hit Parade.

She was married once, to Hollywood radio and TV star Peter Potter in 1948, but they ultimately divorced.

Her partner of 35 years, Buck Stapleton, died in 2003. She is survived by three children a sister and two grandchildren.

Bank of America Cancels Plans to Charge $5 Debit Card Fee

NEW YORK (Nov. 01) – At last Bank of America shows its intentions to drop the debit card fee of $5, proposed to be started from next year.

Bank of America Cancels Plans to Charge $5 Debit Card Fee

Bank of America with its final decision to drop the fee will follow other main banks, including Chase and Wells Fargo, which declared last week that they were withdrawing tests of similar charges.

This U-turn by the banking industry comes in the middle of rising public fury over higher fees and charges. A movement to get customers to switch to credit unions and community banks had marked this Saturday as "Bank Transfer Day."

Dorothy Rodham, Mother of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Died in Washington at 92

WASHINGTON - Dorothy Rodham, mother of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, died at the age of 92 Tuesday morning. She died at Georgetown University Hospital surrounded by family, according to the Clinton family’s statement.

Dorothy Rodham, Mother of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Died in Washington at 92

Earlier on Monday, Hillary Clinton postponed her official visits to London and Turkey due to serious condition of her mother. She was with her mother in Washington D.C. when her mother breathed her last moments.

Rodham kept herself away from, despite her daughter’s public life, giving only one televised interview, which aired on the Oprah Winfrey show in 2004.

“She was – a warm, generous and strong woman,” the Clinton family said in a statement, “an intellectual; a woman who told a great joke and always got the joke; an extraordinary friend and, most of all, a loving wife, mother and grandmother.”

VIDEO: LOT Flight From U.S. to Poland Carrying 230 Passengers Crash Landed at Chopin Airport Warsaw

WARSAW, Poland (Nov. 01) – Breaking News: A troubling landing gear of Boeing 767 forced it for an emergency landing at the Polish capital city of Warsaw on Tuesday.

Boeing 767 Carrying 230 Passengers Crash Landed at Chopin Airport, Warsaw, Poland

Reportedly, a flight of Polish flag carrier LOT from New York to Warsaw carrying 230 passengers, including crew, was crash landed on the Chopin Airport after the pilot reported a problem in landing gear operation.

No immediate reports are available about any damages; while the TV footage showing the plane touching the ground without landing gear in place. The plane slid a long way along the runway on its belly before stopping eventually. The airport's emergency team then quenched a small fire broken out as a result of crash landing, TVN24 reports.

Leszek Chorzewski, the spokesman for LOT, the Polish airline that operated the flight, said none of the passengers was injured. The plane landed on its belly without its wheels.

Passengers could be seen fleeing the plane. The airport has been closed until 8 a.m. on Wednesday. 

Reportedly, the plane had dropped fuel and looped above the city for some time and in the mean time Warsaw airport shut down to all other flights. Nearby streets were also get cleared, and a landing strip was especially prepared at the airport for the crash landing.

Hendrick's Plane Crash Landing -- NASCAR's Owner, Rick Hendrick, and His Wife Sustained Minor Injuries Plane's Crash Landing at Key West, Fla.

KEY WEST, Fla. – The owner of NASCAR's top team and his wife survived a crash landing which could easily be termed as fatal if luck wouldn’t favor those on board, including pilot and co-pilot.

NASCAR's Owner, Rick Hendrick, and His Wife Sustained Minor Injuries Plane's Crash Landing at Key West, Fla.

Reportedly, a small plane carrying Rick Hendrick and his wife, Linda Hendrick, lost its brakes and crash landed on Monday evening, and the couple suffered trivial injuries, airport officials said.

Peter Horton, county airport director, told that the small jet, Gulfstream 150, stranded off the runway at the Key West International Airport Monday at 7:45 p.m. All four on board were taken to the hospital for immediate medical attention.

Rick and Linda suffered small injuries while the pilot and co-pilot apparently shifted to hospital just for precautionary measures, Horton told further.

Hendricks family had gone through a plane crash tragedy in 2004 in which Hendrick’s son Ricky, his brother and twin nieces were among the 10 killed.

Photographs of the crash show the plane was mostly unbroken and with its nose lying on the ground about 20 feet in front of a chain-linked airport boundary fence.

Apparently the brakes failure led to the accident but the exact and detailed cause of the crash will be investigated by the National Transportation and Safety Board.

Watch Video: Unmanned Spacecraft Shenzhou 8 Launched Successfully by China

SHANGHAI, China – China launched an unmanned spacecraft "Shenzhou 8" for the country's first space docking. The launch marked the start of another key mission for the country’s ambitions to build a permanent space station by the around 2020.

Shenzhou 8 Launched Successfully by China

The "Shenzhou 8" set off aboard a Long March CZ-2F rocket from the remote Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert, Gansu Province in northwest China at 05:58, Tuesday (21:58 GMT Monday). Shenzhou-8 will attempt to make contact and dock with the Tiangong-1 lab, launched in September.

In 2003 China became the third nation to launch an astronaut into space, after Russia and the United States.