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Former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell was ready to adopt her second child, until she got some unexpected news from the doctor. That’s when the birth mother, Jami Weaver, said the child was rejected. Jami Weaver claims that the agreement fell through when she learned her unborn child was diagnosed with gastroschisis (a congenital deformity where the bowel protrudes through the abdominal wall) last summer. 'Rosie told me she could not handle having a special needs child,' she said. Perhaps if she’d have done some research, O’Donnell would have discovered that babies with gastroschisis have a 90 percent survival rate,...

ANKARA: Turkey and Israel have scrapped a long-standing project to ship water from Turkey's southern coast to the Jewish state on the grounds that the deal is no longer feasible, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced Friday. "The two sides have reached an agreement to cancel the deal because rising oil prices have increased the cost of transporting water in specially built tankers," a ministry statement said. Another reason, it said, was the Turkish government's decision to privatize the water-treatment facilities on the Manavgat River, from where the water was to be shipped to Israel. The project, negotiations on which have...