18-carat gold toilet stolen from British palace

London: A gang of thieves on Saturday stole an 18-carat gold toilet from an art exhibition at Britain’s Blenheim Palace, the police said. The fully functioning piece by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, dubbed “America”, was once displayed at New York’s Guggenheim museum and offered on loan to US President Donald Trump. A 66-year-old man has been arrested over the theft at the 18th-century stately home in Oxfordshire, where an exhibition of Cattelan works opened on Thursday. “As the toilet being plumbed into the building, this has caused significant damage and flooding to the World Heritage Site,” an official said. AFP

Born on 9/11 at 9.11 pm, baby weighs 9lbs 11oz 

Washington: A mother in the US called her newborn daughter a “little miracle” as she was born on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at 9.11 pm weighing 9lbs 11oz. Little Christina Brown came into the world at Methodist LeBonheur Hospital in Germantown, Tennessee. “She is a new life amongst the devastation and destruction,” said her mother Cametrione Moore-Brown. “We heard the doctor announce the time of birth 9/11 and then when they weighed Christina, we heard gasps of astonishment when everyone realised Christina weighed 9/11, was born at 9.11 and on 9/11,” said father Justin Brown. IANS