U.S. President George W. Bush poses with his daughter Jenna, prior to her wedding to Henry Hager at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas, May 10, 2008. Photo taken May 10, 2008
Henry Hager and Jenna Bush exchange vows at the altar on Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas, May 10, 2008. Proceeding over the wedding ceremony is the Rev. Kirbyjohn Caldwell. Photo taken May 10, 2008
Jenna and Harry Hager cut their wedding cake following their wedding ceremony at Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas May 10, 2008. Photo taken May 10, 2008
Jenna Bush, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush, poses for a photographer prior to her wedding to Henry Hager at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas May 10, 2008. Picture taken May 10, 2008
Jenna and Harry Hager pose for photographs along the lake following their wedding ceremony at Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas May 10, 2008. Picture taken May 10, 2008
Bush welcomes "spectacular" wedding for first daughter
Bush welcomes "spectacular" wedding for first daughter
U.S. President George W. Bush poses with his daughter Jenna, prior to her wedding to Henry Hager at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas, May 10, 2008. Photo taken May 10, 2008
Henry Hager and Jenna Bush exchange vows at the altar on Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas, May 10, 2008. Proceeding over the wedding ceremony is the Rev. Kirbyjohn Caldwell. Photo taken May 10, 2008
Jenna and Harry Hager cut their wedding cake following their wedding ceremony at Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas May 10, 2008. Photo taken May 10, 2008
Jenna Bush, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush, poses for a photographer prior to her wedding to Henry Hager at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas May 10, 2008. Picture taken May 10, 2008
Jenna and Harry Hager pose for photographs along the lake following their wedding ceremony at Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas May 10, 2008. Picture taken May 10, 2008
Birdman takes to the skies
Yves Rossy, known as the "Fusion Man," flies with a jet-powered single wing over the Alps in Bex, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Some people go fishing on their day off. Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a small plane with a pair of jet-powered wings and perform figure eights above the Swiss Alps. The revolutionary human flying machine comes after five years of training and many more years of dreaming
Yves Rossy, known as the "Fusion Man," flies with a jet-powered single wing over the Alps in Bex, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Some people go fishing on their day off. Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a small plane with a pair of jet-powered wings and perform figure eights above the Swiss Alps. The revolutionary human flying machine comes after five years of training and many more years of dreaming
Former professional Swiss military pilot Yves Rossy, also known as "Fusionman", flies in the sky like a rocketeer in the southern Swiss Alps near Bex May 14, 2008. Rossy is the first man ever to successfully fly with wings, full-powered by four engines in his back.
Birdman takes to the skies
Yves Rossy, known as the "Fusion Man," flies with a jet-powered single wing over the Alps in Bex, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Some people go fishing on their day off. Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a small plane with a pair of jet-powered wings and perform figure eights above the Swiss Alps. The revolutionary human flying machine comes after five years of training and many more years of dreaming
Yves Rossy, known as the "Fusion Man," flies with a jet-powered single wing over the Alps in Bex, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Some people go fishing on their day off. Yves Rossy likes to jump out of a small plane with a pair of jet-powered wings and perform figure eights above the Swiss Alps. The revolutionary human flying machine comes after five years of training and many more years of dreaming
Former professional Swiss military pilot Yves Rossy, also known as "Fusionman", flies in the sky like a rocketeer in the southern Swiss Alps near Bex May 14, 2008. Rossy is the first man ever to successfully fly with wings, full-powered by four engines in his back.
UK girl, 18, has had three hearts
Leanne Nicholson, a medical miracle, and lucky to be alive, is recovering at her home in Choppington, in Northumberland, from her second heart transplant three months ago.
Until the age of 12, Leanne was a normal and healthy child. But in April 2002 a virus -- unnamed and unknown -- swept through her body, attacking the muscle tissue of her heart.
She was diagnosed with severe cardiomyopathy, literally "heart muscle disease."
Her heart was so damaged by the virus that the doctors said it was as though she'd suffered three major heart attacks.
The first transplanted heart came from a young woman who had died of a head injury. And the transplant was, to everyone's huge relief, a success in 2002.
But after just 14 months, Leanne went into chronic rejection. Her body began to recognize the heart as an alien tissue and started to attack it so powerfully that even the strongest immuno-suppressive drugs did not work.
Surgeons attempted to fit Leanne with a pacemaker to regulate her heartbeat and help it keep a regular rhythm. But the operation was not a success because the heart was so weak, so in 2003 Leanne was once again rushed to intensive care with heart failure.
"To receive a second heart transplant is a million-to-one chance as there is such a shortage of donor organs," says Leanne.
In January this year, shortly after she spent her 18th birthday, Leanne again went into complete heart failure.
Her parents were told that a transplant was the only option. Without it she had at best just 30 days to live.
Doctors told them to say goodbye to Leanne, who by then was on life support, unconscious and with pipes, drains and wires all over her.
She was lucky enough that after three days of fighting for life, a heart was found, from a 35-year-old man from London who had died in a car accident.
Leanne is now making a steady recovery and said she had not felt so well in years.
The average survival rate for heart transplant patients is ten years, with many living for 20 years or more, and so her future is looking brighter than it has for a very long time.
UK girl, 18, has had three hearts
Leanne Nicholson, a medical miracle, and lucky to be alive, is recovering at her home in Choppington, in Northumberland, from her second heart transplant three months ago.
Until the age of 12, Leanne was a normal and healthy child. But in April 2002 a virus -- unnamed and unknown -- swept through her body, attacking the muscle tissue of her heart.
She was diagnosed with severe cardiomyopathy, literally "heart muscle disease."
Her heart was so damaged by the virus that the doctors said it was as though she'd suffered three major heart attacks.
The first transplanted heart came from a young woman who had died of a head injury. And the transplant was, to everyone's huge relief, a success in 2002.
But after just 14 months, Leanne went into chronic rejection. Her body began to recognize the heart as an alien tissue and started to attack it so powerfully that even the strongest immuno-suppressive drugs did not work.
Surgeons attempted to fit Leanne with a pacemaker to regulate her heartbeat and help it keep a regular rhythm. But the operation was not a success because the heart was so weak, so in 2003 Leanne was once again rushed to intensive care with heart failure.
"To receive a second heart transplant is a million-to-one chance as there is such a shortage of donor organs," says Leanne.
In January this year, shortly after she spent her 18th birthday, Leanne again went into complete heart failure.
Her parents were told that a transplant was the only option. Without it she had at best just 30 days to live.
Doctors told them to say goodbye to Leanne, who by then was on life support, unconscious and with pipes, drains and wires all over her.
She was lucky enough that after three days of fighting for life, a heart was found, from a 35-year-old man from London who had died in a car accident.
Leanne is now making a steady recovery and said she had not felt so well in years.
The average survival rate for heart transplant patients is ten years, with many living for 20 years or more, and so her future is looking brighter than it has for a very long time.
Thousands evacuate after Chile volcano Chaiten erupts
Chile's long-dormant Chaiten volcano spewed clouds of gray smoke, hot rocks and toxic gas on Tuesday, forcing authorities to order the complete evacuation of two nearby towns, media reports said.
More than 4,000 people left the town of Chaiten, 10 kilometers (six miles) from the volcano, after the initial eruption. Several hundred are still waiting to leave. Futaleufu, 70 kilometers (44 miles) to the east, is also being evacuated.
The volcano's column of smoke and ash stretched more than 19 kilometers (12 miles) into the sky on Monday, Chile's National Geology and Mineral Service reported, and it extended well into neighboring Argentina and to the Atlantic Ocean.
Chilean officials said molten rock was being thrown from the volcano but that no lava flows had been detected.
The five-day-old eruption is the first in at least 9,000 years for the volcano in southern Chile, according to volcanologists at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
A government vulcanologist warned there could be a big eruption at any time.
"There could be a major explosion that could collapse the volcano's cone," said Luis Lara of the National Geologic and Mining Service.
Residents of Futaleufu, a town near the erupting volcano in Chile, wait on a bus to evacuate to Argentina's Esquel City, May 6, 2008
Members of Chilean armed forces watch the smoke rising from Chaiten volcano at Chaiten town, located some 1220 km (760 miles) south of Santiago May 4, 2008. Chile's long-dormant Chaiten volcano spewed clouds of gray smoke, hot rocks and toxic gas on Tuesday, forcing authorities to order the complete evacuation of two nearby towns
Chile's Chaiten volcano erupts south of Santiago in this image captured by NASA's Terra satellite at 10:35 a.m. local time on May 3 and released on May 6, 2008. The image shows a long cloud-like plume of smoke and ash flowing southeast from the summit of the volcano across the Andes mountains, across part of Argentina and then dissipating over the Atlantic ocean
Thousands evacuate after Chile volcano Chaiten erupts
Chile's long-dormant Chaiten volcano spewed clouds of gray smoke, hot rocks and toxic gas on Tuesday, forcing authorities to order the complete evacuation of two nearby towns, media reports said.
More than 4,000 people left the town of Chaiten, 10 kilometers (six miles) from the volcano, after the initial eruption. Several hundred are still waiting to leave. Futaleufu, 70 kilometers (44 miles) to the east, is also being evacuated.
The volcano's column of smoke and ash stretched more than 19 kilometers (12 miles) into the sky on Monday, Chile's National Geology and Mineral Service reported, and it extended well into neighboring Argentina and to the Atlantic Ocean.
Chilean officials said molten rock was being thrown from the volcano but that no lava flows had been detected.
The five-day-old eruption is the first in at least 9,000 years for the volcano in southern Chile, according to volcanologists at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
A government vulcanologist warned there could be a big eruption at any time.
"There could be a major explosion that could collapse the volcano's cone," said Luis Lara of the National Geologic and Mining Service.
Residents of Futaleufu, a town near the erupting volcano in Chile, wait on a bus to evacuate to Argentina's Esquel City, May 6, 2008
Members of Chilean armed forces watch the smoke rising from Chaiten volcano at Chaiten town, located some 1220 km (760 miles) south of Santiago May 4, 2008. Chile's long-dormant Chaiten volcano spewed clouds of gray smoke, hot rocks and toxic gas on Tuesday, forcing authorities to order the complete evacuation of two nearby towns
Chile's Chaiten volcano erupts south of Santiago in this image captured by NASA's Terra satellite at 10:35 a.m. local time on May 3 and released on May 6, 2008. The image shows a long cloud-like plume of smoke and ash flowing southeast from the summit of the volcano across the Andes mountains, across part of Argentina and then dissipating over the Atlantic ocean
Dead whale pulled out to sea in San Francisco
A dead whale is pulled out to sea in San Francisco, California, May 9, 2008. Port officials hauled out the carcass of a young Gray Whale approximately 30 feet long that was lodged between pier pilings along San Francisco's waterfront.
People watch a dead whale being pulled out from under a pier in San Francisco, California, May 9, 2008. Port officials hauled out the carcass of a young Gray Whale approximately 30 feet long that was lodged between pier pilings along San Francisco's waterfront.
Dead whale pulled out to sea in San Francisco
A dead whale is pulled out to sea in San Francisco, California, May 9, 2008. Port officials hauled out the carcass of a young Gray Whale approximately 30 feet long that was lodged between pier pilings along San Francisco's waterfront.
People watch a dead whale being pulled out from under a pier in San Francisco, California, May 9, 2008. Port officials hauled out the carcass of a young Gray Whale approximately 30 feet long that was lodged between pier pilings along San Francisco's waterfront.
