Maryam Babangida, dying from cancer, is believed dead according to Nigerian reports Monday. Maryam Babangida’s unconfirmed death following cancer treatment is being reported across Nigeria websites Monday.

No official confirmation of death has been issued.

Maryam Babangida, former First Lady of Nigeria and Chairperson for the Better Life for Rural Woman, was reported “dying” on Nigerian websites starting November 13. Maryam was reportedly here in Los Angeles at the UCLA Cancer Center as of last week. General Babangida was reportedly grated a US visa to be bedside with Maryam.

Maryam Babangida’s condition was reported worsening in the last six months, Maryam’s cancer in advance stage claimed reports.

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The yacht of Paul and Rachel Chandler, British tourists believed kidnapped by Somali pirates has been found. Paul and Rachel Chandler’s family says the Lynn Rival, the couple’s yacht on route to Tanzania, has been found by the British navy moments ago.

Hostage negotiator Dr James Alvarez says the Chandler’s family will now have to pay to release the hostages. “The bad news is they will have to pay a ransom” Alvarez says that the Somali pirates do not harm their captives but assume they all have money.

However, Somali premier Omar Sharmarke says that it is invovlved. This comes as officials aren’t convniced the Chandlers have been kidnapped. “We don’t have any sympathy for these pirates. Piracy is a criminal activity and we want to see it end.”

The couple sent a distress signal out on last Friday.

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London Lite says its considering closing. Popular British paper the London Lite said it may close in a statement today; the Lite’s losses were heavy for August at $13 million.

The London Lite deals with London news, sport and celeb reports and is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGOa.L).

If the London Lite fails, this would be the second London freesheet to close in 60 days following News Corp’s closure of The London Paper.

Other analysts tell the FT today they believe there are chances the London Lite could merge with the Standard. Steve Auckland, manager director of Associated Newspapers (under DMGT) says “Despite reaching a large audience with an excellenet editorial format, we are concerned about the commercial viability in this highly competitive market.”

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PICTURE. News of the death of Mermaid Girl (picture above) is captivating a nation which has followed the Mermaid Syndrome (sirenomelia) fight of Shiloh Pepin for over a year.

Sirenomelia is when your lower body doesn’t develop correctly as a fetus resulting in the two limbs attached. Most fail to survive hours after birth. But Shiloh was doing great following a kidney transplant in 2007.

The syndrome is a congenital deformity where your legs grow together appearing like the tail of a mermaid. The condition only occurs in one of every 100,000 births with persons passing within 48 hours of birth.

Only three people have ever survived to live with the syndrome.

In 2007 TLC recorded Pepin for their documentary “Mermaid Girl”. The show would air in December 2008 and then June of 2009. Doctors say Pepin was in critical condition since last week.

Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

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PICTURE. Here again is a photo of Shiloh Pepin aka Mermaid Girl featured on LALATE in December. Shiloh Pepin whose Mermaid Syndrome brought national headlines in 2008 has died.

Pepin was 10.

Shiloh was born with sirenomelia which involves both legs attached from the waist down. Initial doctors reports had said Shiloh would only have a day to live. Instead, she lived 10 years full of joy.

In December 2008, LALATE profiled Pepin, the subject of a TLC special at the time. Pepin was believed to be one of only three people who ever survived sirenomelia.

The TLC documentary entitled “Mermaid Girl” followed Shiloh in her Kennebunkport home during 2007. Her mom had said to local press in December that coverage from TLC got the girl her own wetsuit to learn swimming.

Pepin had a kidney transplant in 2007. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

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When is Daylight Savings Time? Your Daylight Savings Time Schedule for 2009 is about to end.

Daylight Savings Time will end November 1, 2009! So before you go to bed the night before, remember to set your clocks backwards. You will get an extra hour of sleep. Daylight Savings Time will next start the second Sunday in March 2010.

The concept of Daylight Savings Time came from George Vernon Hudson in 1895. But historians note that Romans used different clock scales in ancient times at different parts of the years.

Daylight Savings Time has always caused controversy. Churchill said once in support of Daylight Savings Time that it affords “the opportunities for the pursuit of health and happiness among the millions of people who live in this country”.

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VIDEO! Here is Australian youtube video of that baby stroller and an arriving train. The baby stroller train story ends fine with officials saying the baby only “needed a feed and a nap” after the ordeal.

“Luckily he was strapped into his [stroller] … at that time which probably save his life” said officials. But it was but for the stroller on a decline and his mom walking away that the child actually took the fall in the first place. “Fortunately the train was slowing as it pulled into the station.”

The baby boy, six months old, is fine and unharmed. The mother? Well her choice to take her hands of a stroller was not so fine. Police tell Australian press that parents should “be cautious in train stations”.

Yes, and parents thinking would help too. Watch the video below.

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