Seven-year-old twins fight off kidnapper to save baby brother

Seven-year-old twins, Luis and Lucius were left in the car to look after their one-year-old baby brother as their mum Lucia who was planning to drive to church popped back into the house because she had forgotten the baby's bottle. The drama unfolded a few seconds after Lucia went into their house in San Antonio, Texas. A carjacker suddenly appeared from nowhere and was stealing the car with the three kids.

The brave twins realising the gravity of the situation instantly sprang into action and started battering the intruder until he let the boys out.

Lucius said: "I was kicking him."

Luis said: "I was hitting him with a [toy] snake."

San Antonio police chief William McManus said: "When she came back the car was gone." He added that the twins immediately began laying into the carjacker and screaming at him.

The officer said: "They just knew that that guy wasn't supposed to be in the car and they were beating him."The thief let the boys and the baby out on a street in Las Palmas, roughly 10 miles from their home.

They were reunited with their mum within hours.

She told TV reporters she had only just bought the toy snake for the boys, adding: "I didn't want to buy it for them, but I guess God knew that he was going to use it today."The mum praised the bravery of her twins, saying: "I thank God for them that they took charge."

The man who stole the car is thought to be in his mid-30s. Lucia said she had seen him in the neighbourhood a few times before.

Nagging husbands likely to die young

Beware! If you want to be a widow at a young age start nagging your husband!Scientists in Denmark have found that henpecked men are twice as likely to die in the middle age.

According to the research bickering among couples can be a real health hazard and stressed out men are literally being nagged to death.

Some 10,000 men and women aged 36 to 52 from Denmark were quizzed about who made the most demands on them and caused the most conflict.

Researchers found that out of every 100,000 people, 315 deaths could be caused by spousal demands and worries. The findings were published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

Dr Rikke Lund, Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, at University of Copenhagen, said: "It is interesting that we have identified that males who are exposed to worries and demands by their partners have higher mortality and are the ones we should focus on.

"We tend to struggle to reach this group with public health interventions and maybe we should be focused less on the individual and more on social networks as a whole."

Dr Lund suggested that men have fewer people in their social life and so less people to share their worries with.

He said: "Their partner is more important to them in a relatively small social network." Stress is known to have physical effects on health, increasing the risk of heart disease and strokes and leading to "comfort eating" of junk food.