Identical NY twins marry in double ceremony

Here comes the bride. Wait, here she comes again! Identical twin sisters Francine and Maria Munafo have added their weddings to the list of special events they've shared by marrying in a double ceremony in suburban New York.

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The chances are about one in 10 million, but Alexandra, Antonia and Adriana beat the odds: Three identical newborn girls are healthy after being born at the Bonn University Clinic, according to a hospital spokeswoman on Tuesday.

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Video: Identical twins marry in bizarre ceremony It was a case of double vision when a set of identical twin brothers married another pair of twin sisters in a military ceremony in Pechora, north Russia.

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A court in Poland has awarded just over $500,000 (£339,000) in damages to the families of three women mistakenly switched at birth by hospital staff. Two of the women are identical twins who grew up in separate families because of the mix-up.

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Five weeks after their arrest, Berlin police have released two suspects in the spectacular robbery of the city's KaDeWe department store because DNA tests can't tell the identical twins apart, daily Berliner Morgenpost reported on Thursday.

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Investigations into the spectacular heist at Berlin's luxury department store KaDeWe have run into a problem: The suspected robbers may be identical twins. That means that the traces of DNA found at the crime scene could be useless under German law.

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Malaysian identical twin brothers have escaped hanging for drug trafficking as a court failed to decide which brother was the criminal, and cleared both. A judge in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, said the case was unique and she could not send the wrong person to his death.

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Men: Are they all the same?

Q. "I married when I was eighteen, the marriage lasted seven years. I never married again, nor would I ever do so. Once bitten, twice shy! Do you agree, Elaine?"

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Contrary to our previous beliefs, identical twins are not genetically identical. This surprising finding is presented by American, Swedish, and Dutch scientists in a study being published today in the prestigious journal American Journal of Human Genetics.

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Newsvine sent out the following update on what's been happening since MSNBC bought the site, and a preview of what features are in the works next year.

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The parents of identical twin girls who were separated at birth in Ecuador are suing doctors who they say kidnapped one of the babies. The two girls, Andrea and Marielisa, are now 15 and were recently introduced by mutual friends.

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A researcher who specializes in multiple-birth pregnancies has confirmed that taller women are more likely to have twins.

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A 26-year-old Indian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets and the girls are healthy after their first six weeks of life, an Indian news agency reported Friday. Doctors say there are fewer than 100 identical quadruplets in the world.

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