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Life's a beach! Get the brightest stories sent to your inbox with the Daily Star newsletterA Ugandan woman has stunned doctors by successfully welcoming a baby following one round of IVF treatment – and despite being past the age of retirement.Safinah Namukwaya has longed to welcome a child since first marrying in 1973, and sadly suffered an ectopic pregnancy – when an egg fertilises and grows outside the uterus – before the marriage collapsed.The resident of Nunda Village in Lwabenge Sub County, Kalungu District in Uganda married again in 1996 and longed to welcome a child with her husband, Badru Walusimbi.Ms Namukwaya then feared her hopes of having children were over when she reached menopause when aged 45.However, in March last year,

Life's a beach! Get the brightest stories sent to your inbox with the Daily Star newsletterA convicted killer serving 23 years for the murder of his flatmate was sent a mummified finger that had been fashioned into a necklace.Thomas Stone, 27, pleaded guilty in late 2018 to stabbing 41-year-old Robert James Mitchell in February 2017 at Morisset Hospital.Stone and Robert shared a low-security cottage at the psychiatric hospital and Stone stabbed his flatmate three times with a kitchen knife, killing him.The 23-year-old had been admitted to the hospital with schizophrenia, and in the months leading up to Robert's death, medics said his mental illness appeared to have stabilised.Stone is now serving a 23-year sentence for Robert’s death at the

Life's a beach! Get the brightest stories sent to your inbox with the Daily Star newsletterA mum-of-five joked she was going to give up housework and be more “like a man”.Mandy Nolan, a comedian from Australia, said lockdown has shown her how much she hates cleaning.She used to obsess over tidying her house, but has now vowed to channel her energy into things she enjoys doing more.Instead of wiping, dusting and mopping, she plans to read, write, dance, sleep and have sex.In a candid Facebook post, Mandy wrote: “During COVID I lost interest in cleaning because NO ONE was coming over.“I realised it was a stupid thing to care about and ultimately it didn’t make me happy.”She continued: “It actually makes me angry because I feel unvalued,

Life's a beach! Get the brightest stories sent to your inbox with the Daily Star newsletterA little boy was left with a zip-like scar after surgery to relocate his only kidney – the first UK operation of its kind.Ivor Jeffrey lost his first kidney at one and with his second failing rapidly, his devastated parents accepted an operation was their boy’s only hope.The 12-hour complete aortic bypass saw medics move Ivor’s kidney from the right to the left hand side of his body.It left the tot with a giant scar running across his stomach, which was held together by staples – resembling a giant zip across his tiny body.Mum Toni-Lee Jeffrey, 29, said: “Ivor has been a medical mystery since the day he was born.

Life's a beach! Get the brightest stories sent to your inbox with the Daily Star newsletterA baby girl born without all four limbs has left doctors baffled after the infant appeared to be completely healthy in the womb.Doctors in India’s Madhya Pradesh were left shocked after a baby girl born to a family in the Sakla village of Sironj Tehsil in Vidisha was born with a rare disorder that left her limbless.The rare condition is known as autosomal recessive congenital disorder, or Tetra-Amelia, and is characterised by the absence of all four limbs.In Images taken of the little girl, the infant can be seen wrapped in a blanket next to her mother, with just her head and torso in view.A second picture shows the infant next to her mother,

Life's a beach! Get the brightest stories sent to your inbox with the Daily Star newsletterA man held on suspicion of carrying out a terror attack in Reading has been charged with three counts of murder and three of attempted murder. Khairi Saadallah, 25, has been charged in connection with the deaths of three people who were stabbed in Reading on June 20th.

Life's a beach! Get the brightest stories sent to your inbox with the Daily Star newsletterA man has been jailed after throwing a beer bottle at his girlfriend’s head after she rumbled his relationship with a woman he claimed was his aunt.A controversial love triangle was formed by 37-year-old Colin McArthur from Merseyside, his girlfriend Tracy Smith, and a second woman that Mr McArthur claimed was his “aunt Liz”.Tensions flared in April when Mr McArthur invited his “aunt” to visit him at the home he shared with Ms Smith in Liverpool.Ms Smith became suspicious when the three of them drank and socialised together in the couple’s home, and was subsequently shocked to find her boyfriend and his alleged aunt “engaged with each other” when she

Life's a beach! Get the brightest stories sent to your inbox with the Daily Star newsletterA policeman who was “seriously injured” in a Glasgow stabbing on Friday afternoon has said he will “never forget” the incident he was “confronted with.” PC David Whyte, 42, was rushed to hospital in critical condition on Friday, but is now recovering at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.In a statement issued on to the Police Scotland Twitter, PC Whyte said he would like to hank his “colleagues who put themselves in harms way” to contain the incident.He said he received “vital treatment” from emergency services, along with others who were injured in the incident.