Washington  - A Canadian woman who gave birth to twins on a freezing street in Windsor, Ontario amidst snow and rain was in good condition and the newborns were expected to survive, it was reported Thursday.

Police officers on a routine patrol first thought they were at a crime scene when they saw a woman covered in blood screaming for help and waving them down. The
27-year-old woman was clutching a baby and said she had just given birth, the Windsor Star reported.

London, December 24 : British and Canadian chemists have developed a chameleon-like "opal" that can rapidly take any colour.

The new material can rapidly shrink or swell to change the colour of light that it scatters.

For creating it, the researchers first stacked up silica marbles on a flat electrode, each 270 nanometres across. They then added a polymer on top to encase the sphere and hold them in place, and then dissolve the spheres with acid to leave behind a regular pattern of air pockets inside the polymer.

Finally, the team fill these pockets with a liquid electrolyte, and seal the structure.

Canadian research has revealed that a one-time set of steroid injections for pregnant women at high risk of giving birth prematurely is enough to deal with major problems for the baby. Study revealed that multiple courses of steroids do not improve outcomes after premature birth and may lead to smaller babies.

Alzheimer's disease, which is characterized by progressive brain deterioration and leads to dementia, affects about 300,000 Canadians and 500,000 Americans under the age of 65.  

Recent study has shown that Alzheimer's affect women more adversely as compared to men. Michael S. Rafii, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Memory Disorders Clinic and an attending neurologist at the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer Disease Research Center at the University of California, San Diego said that there are evidence that AD affects women differently than men.

Ottawa, Dec 19 : A top archeologist has said that the upcoming Dakar Rally, which has been relocated to Argentina and Chile because of security fears, could damage important archeological sites.

According to a report by the Canadian Press, the rally, which this year will feature more than 500 vehicles, was transferred from Africa because of terrorism concerns and will be held in South America from January 3-18.

Five hundred and thirty teams will participate in the rally, with 82 trucks, 188 cars, 30 4x4s and 230 motorcycles racing over 9,000 kilometers and cross over the Andes mountain range separating Argentina and Chile.

San Francisco - Dozens of skiers and snowboarders were rescued from dangling ski gondolas at the Canadian resort of Whistler after a tower supporting the cable cars partially collapsed.

A spokesman for the ski resort, which is one of the largest in North America, said 53 passengers were rescued Tuesday. No serious injuries were reported even though about 30 gondola cars, each of which can hold eight passengers, were suspended in the air.

The broken tower was close to the base of the mountain. The partial collapse of a truss caused the cable to sag between the two adjacent towers although none hit the ground, pictures from Canadian Television News showed.