Once again, a civic-run hospital got dragged in a baby-swap storm.

Mohammed Sartaj, a fruit vendor, filed a complaint against the doctors at a maternity home run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in Oshiwara, for swapping his baby boy for a girl, minutes after the delivery on Wednesday evening.

Sartaj’s wife Reshma Bano also said that soon after giving birth to her baby, she was informed by the doctors that it was a boy.

Bano was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon and delivered the child around 6 pm.

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La Paz/Caracas  - An elite Bolivian police squad killed three members of an alleged terrorist group Thursday at a hotel in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

Bolivian President Evo Morales saif from the Venezuelan city of Cumana that the dead were foreign "mercenaries" who were planning attacks on Morales himself and other high government officials.

The Santa Cruz daily El Deber reported in its online edition, citing national Police Chief Victor Hugo Escobar, that the three dead included one Bolivian with a Hungarian and a Colombian.

London, Apr 16 : A chipped teapot which makes only one cup of tea has fetched a record 80,000 pounds at an auction.

The 250-year-old tiny antique was discovered in a pile of bric-a-brac, and carries a message against the act that led to the Boston Tea Party.

The rare orange pot was made by Wedgwood and carries the controversial messages "No Stamp Act" and "Success to Trade in America". It implies protest against the Stamp Tax - the row that led to the American Revolution and US independence.

You are asking for a religious trouble (fatwa), if you are Muslim, using verses ("aayats") from the Koran as ringtones on your mobile phones! Ashraful Madaris, an Islamic seminary in Kanpur city of India, has issues a fatwa on using Quranic ringtones on mobile phones.

Ashraful Madaris has stated that it is a sin to use “aayats” (verses from the Quran) as ringtones and answer the phone calls during “aayats”. According to the Muslim organization, Muslims are prohibited to use ringtones from Quran on their mobile phones; Muslims are forbidden to mobile phones during “aayats” or prayers, as the acts degrade the Quran.

Al-Arish, Egypt  - In two separate incidents, Egyptian security forces Wednesday found an estimated 900 kilograms of explosives in the Sinai peninsula and arrested three Palestinians for entering Egypt illegally, police said.

The explosives, which were discovered in the Jafjafa region of central Sinai, included 50 kilograms of TNT and 18 mobile phones that could have been used to detonate the explosives remotely, a source in Egypt's Interior Ministry told German Press Agency dpa, on condition of anonymity.