Black and White parents, Black and White twins

At 17 months, Triniti and Ghabriael are chubby-cheeked twins, born 11 weeks early at three pounds each and now healthy and a joy to their parents.
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But when their mother, Khristi Cunningham of Akron, Ohio, takes them in public, the babies get a lot of second looks and questions. Picture when you continue

Triniti has ebony-colored skin and all the classic dark features of an African American, but "Gabe," as his parents call him, is ivory-white with steely blue eyes and blond hair. He's now 10 pounds heavier than his sister, but it's their racial identity that gets people scratching their heads.
"People ask, 'How did it happen?' Are you sure they are twins?" said Cunningham, 29. "We get a lot of stares, and I am sure people make comments behind my back."
Their mother is white and their father, Charles Cunningham, is black.
"I don't know how it happened," said Cunningham. "They are fraternal twins, so they aren't any closer than if they had been born years apart. Ours just happen to have the same birthday."
Geneticists say racial differences involve many genes and are more complex in determining looks than those for eye color, but the startling difference between the twins raises an interesting question about how mixed-race families are viewed in a country that is increasing biracial.
Even the Cunningham's pediatrician was baffled by the black and white babies.

"She asked if they were identical twins," said Cunningham. "That was the last time we went to see her."
Having a black and white twin is "no big deal from my viewpoint," said Dr. Ronald Bachman, retired chief emeritus of the genetics department at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in California.
"I share a common trait with most medical geneticists," he said. "We don't know a hell of a lot and don't pay much attention to skin color and eye color, although we are asked at cocktail parties all the time."
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You can only imagine: Indian man with 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren

A 66-year-old man in a remote village in northeast India has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren, all living under one roof and is still wanting more. More pictures when you continue.


They all live in a four storied building with 100 rooms in a mountainous village in Mizoram state, sharing borders with Burma and Bangladesh, according to reports.

"I once married 10 women in one year," Ziona Chana said.

His wives share a dormitory near Ziona's private bedroom and locals said he likes to have seven or eight of them by his side at all times.

The sons and their wives, and all their children, live in different rooms in the same building, but share a common kitchen.

The wives take turns cooking, while his daughters clean the house and do washing. The men do outdoor jobs like farming and taking care of livestock.

The family, all 167 of them, consumes around 200lb of rice and more than 130lb of potatoes a day. They are supported by their own resources and occasional donations from followers.
"Even today, I am ready to expand my family and willing to go to any extent to marry," Ziona said.
"I have so many people to care (for) and look after, and I consider myself a lucky man."
Mr Chana met his oldest wife, who is three years older than he is, when he was 17.
He heads a local Christian religious sect, called the "Chana", which allows polygamy. Formed in June 1942, the sect believes it will soon be ruling the world with Christ and has a membership of around 400 families.

Sports: Carmelo Anthony signs deal with Knicks

Carmelo Anthony's trade from the Denver Nuggets to the New York Knicks has sunk in, ending a seven-month saga about where the flamboyant playmaker would finish the NBA season.
Two days before the NBA trade deadline, the 26-year-old forward who helped the Americans win gold at the Beijing Olympics was sent to New York in a 12-player deal that will unite him with another NBA star in Amare Stoudemire.

"Every team needs a 1, 1A punch," Stoudemire said. "With the ways that we both can score .... we're very versatile, so it's hard to guard us.
"It's two highly talented offensive players. It's going to be electric. We're taking the right steps to building something special in New York."
Denver completed a three-team swap with the Knicks on Tuesday night. The Minnesota Timberwolves also were involved in the trade, which couldn't be finalized until Anthony signed a three-year, $65 million contract extension with the Nuggets.
"It's what he wants. It's what I wanted, to come to New York and play on the big stage," Stoudemire said. "He has the same type of swagger. This is what he wants and he can handle it. We're going to do it together."
Anthony ranks sixth in the NBA with 25.2 points a game. He has also averaged 7.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists a game this season for the Nuggets, where he has played for his entire career since joining the NBA as the third overall pick in the 2003 NBA Draft.
Anthony, guards Chauncey Billups and Anthony Carter, forward Renaldo Balkman and center Shelden Williams were sent to the Knicks in exchange for forwards Danilo Gallinari of Italy and Wilson Chandler, guard Raymond Felton, Russian center Timofey Mozgov and $3 million.
The Knicks also sent the Nuggets a first-round pick in the 2014 NBA Draft and second-round selections in the 2012 and 2013 NBA Drafts, both of which originally belonged to the Golden State Warriors.
In a related deal to cope with salary cap issues, the Knicks sent center Eddy Curry, forward Anthony Randolph and $3 million to Minnesota for swingman Corey Brewer.
Anthony, who is from New York, had rejected a three-year contract extension offer from Denver worth $65 million last year, setting the stage for the deal and the drawn-out saga of where he would go.
Anthony had to sign the extension with the Nuggets before the trade deal to the Knicks could be completed.
The New Jersey Nets several times appeared near a deal, but Anthony's refusal to sign a longer-term contract thwarted efforts from the Knicks' cross-rival rivals to deny New York the coveted point producer.
The Knicks hope to have Anthony in uniform on Wednesday when they host Milwaukee, but they will join the Miami Heat -- with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh -- and Boston with multiple stars and huge expectations.
"It's not easy and it's not going to get any easier for us now because the target is on our back," Stoudemire said. "Teams are going to be eager to play against us."
Anthony sparked Denver into the NBA playoffs in each of his seven full seasons with the club, but the Nuggets only went beyond the first round once, that in 2009 when they lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference finals, the club's deepest playoff run since 1985.
At 32-25, Denver ranks seventh in the Western Conference, one game ahead of Utah and Memphis in a fight for the last playoff berths.
The Knicks, 28-26, are sixth in the Eastern Conference, two games ahead of Philadelphia and 5 1/2 games behind fifth-place Atlanta.
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Lady Gaga on Grammys, HIV/AIDS: Wears condom outfit

Pop sensation Lady Gaga wore a "condom-inspired outfit" when she visited "Good Morning America" on Feb. 17 to talk about her work with the MAC Viva Glam Campaign, which works to raise awareness about women with HIV/AIDS. "Today was a latex condom-inspired outfit because we're here to talk about safe sex," Gaga told Robin Roberts on "GMA." "Today I really wanted to -- head to toe -- be representative about what we women … need to be concerned about … which is HIV."

Gaga is a spokesperson for MAC's Viva Glam campaign which raises money and awareness for HIV and AIDS prevention globally.
Wearing nude latex pants, a latex overcoat, a white, exaggerated hat, and flesh-toned implants around her eyes, Gaga said that her time in an egg-shaped vessel before Sunday's Grammys allowed her to experience a "rebirth."
The 24-year-old singer was carried down the red carpet in an egg by a fleet of models.
"I was in there for three days…I was viva glamming for three whole days because I wanted to have a rebirth and I think the universe needs to have a rebirth," she said. "I think we all need to be inside a vessel for a three whole days, thinking about how we can love ourselves more, protect ourselves more, live life with more passion and look not outwards for validation but inwards, look inside of yourself to your spirit and your inner light."
The native New Yorker, who has sold 60 million singles worldwide, said that her three grammy wins Sunday were a complete surprise.
"I so genuinely did not think I was going to win...I was shocked and so honored and so humbled and it was a very joyous day being able to sing 'Born This Way' for the first time."
Gaga's new hit single, "Born This Way," has already reached number one on the Billboard charts since its release last week.
"Born This Way is so much bigger than me, it's not about me at all really…the song when I wrote it, I just knew it was destined to reach so many people all over the world and the most humbling thing for me this past weekend has been watching the fans just harness onto the record and people that weren't my fans before really, really enjoying the music and feeling uplifted and a sense of positivity," she said.