Conjoined South African twin girls separated

Twin 14-month-old girls in South Africa joined at the head were separated in a 16-hour operation, one of their doctors said today.

Danielle and Danika Lowton lay apart for the first time since their birth at about 8:45pm (1845 GMT) on Friday, a statement from the Arwyp Medical Centre, a private hospital in Kempton Park, near Johannesburg, said. They were in critical but stable condition today.