Two long lost sisters who had not been in touch for 26 years have been reunited through their own misfortune - when they found themselves in neighbouring hospital beds.
Mary Sheldon and Ruth Higginson were put in a two-bed room at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
The pair had lost touch after a disagreement and were [...]

The American literary giant Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, is to be reunited with his wife after more than 130 years, after the excavation of her remains.
From an unkempt and crumbling plot in Kensal Green cemetery, northwest London, just after dawn yesterday, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and the couple’s daughter, Una, were exhumed, [...]

Two sisters who were separated after their mother was murdered and their father died have been reunited after almost 50 years.
Christine Bull, 53 and from Carlton in Nottingham, and her sister Jacqueline, 61, now living in Melbourne, Australia, found each other through a website.
After the death of their father in 1961, Christine was put in [...]

1969: Israel elects first female leader
Golda Meir, the “grand old woman of Israeli politics”, is to become the first female prime minister of Israel.
The 70-year-old’s candidature was officially accepted by the Labour Party in Tel Aviv after she received 287 votes from her own central committee. Forty-five MPs abstained.
On Sunday she will formally succeed her [...]