Barranquilla: Colombian teenager Liliana Caceres, who stuffed her shirt and pretended she was pregnant with sextuplets for six months in an effort to improve relations with her husband, admitted the sham after being brought into hospital for medical tests. The 16-year-old girl padded out her shirt and did not let her 22-year-old husband touch her stomach, to stop him from discovering her fake pregnancy.

q A Palestinian mechanic named his quadruplets after leader Yasser Arafat and his family. Atis Siksik's wife Mona gave birth on Friday to two boys and two girls, in Rafah, a town in the southern Gaza Strip. The couple named the boys Yasser and Arafat, and the girls Soha and Zahwa, after Arafat's wife and daughter.