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Nigerian city celebrates its abundance of twins with annual festival

With the highest concentration of twins in Nigeria, Igbo-Ora is the west African nation's self-proclaimed twin capital. The city is organises an annual "Twin Festival", where twins from Igbo-Ora and elsewhere gather to celebrate their existence.

17/10/2022

Nature

Meet the two-headed tortoise with multiple personalities

Janus, the world’s oldest two-headed tortoise has two different personalities: one head is partial to endives and the other to carrots.

05/09/2022

Health news

Conjoined twins aged 3 separated with help of virtual reality

Twins Bernado and Arthur Lima, 3, can now look at each other in the face for the first time after a "man-on-Mars" surgery using virtual reality.

02/08/2022

World News

More twins born than ever before amid rise in fertility treatments

Rates of twin births have more than doubled in Europe over the past 30 years and soared by 71 per cent in North America, according to research by the University of Oxford.

12/03/2021

Ireland

Irish town severs twinning ties with Poland over 'LGBT-free' zone

The town of Fermoy in Ireland has terminated its twinning agreement with Nowa Dęba in Poland over "LGBT-free" zones.

16/10/2020

France

French community suspends Polish ties over anti-LGBT declaration

A Polish town's attitude towards gay people has cost it its French twin.

18/02/2020

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Watch: Footage of first giant panda cubs to be born at Berlin Zoo

Footage has been released of the first giant panda cubs to be born at Berlin Zoo.

01/10/2019

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Double vision? 50 pairs of twins gather for parade in Crimea

The little twin brothers and sisters marched with their parents along the Yalta village on the Black Sea in Crimea on Sunday (May 26) as part of the Festival of the Crimean Twins. The parade was held in the city for the second time and gathered some 50 pairs of twins.

27/05/2019

Hungary

Hungarian doctors make progress on separating conjoined twins

Rabia and Rukia are conjoined at the head, an extremely rare event that occurs in about one in 2.5 million live births.

12/02/2019