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China may be leading the global economic recovery, but the country's domestic dating market is sluggish.

"I've been single for four years straight, and I really want to get married," complains Dong Chun, an eligible 28-year-old Beijing resident with a Master's degree.

Dong has achieved significant career success working long hours in her top position with a prestigious media company, but despite her good fortune, she's worried about the future — specifically, about whom she will spend it with.

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Updated 1:30 a.m. EDT, Friday.

A baby girl with two heads was born at Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital (FMH), a government hospital in Manila, the Philippines on Tuesday night.

"Baby Girl Arciaga," now under observation at the Philippine Heart Center, was born with two hearts contained in one sac. The heads have separate brains and spines, but share most other vital organs, including lungs and kidneys.

"This is a very rare case. It's new even to us," Dr. Ruben Flores, FMH's director, said in a television interview.

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The Women's Institute, a bastion of traditional British society, has been surprising its critics a lot in recent years. Now, the ladies are taking on human traffickers who force women into prostitution, in their own distinctive way.

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We’ll probably never know whether 15-year-old Rania al Ambaki was the victim of a breathtakingly cruel conspiracy, or a willing woman terrorist. She told Elizabeth Palmer she never wanted to kill anyone.

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