International Women’s Day: Protest And Celebration Around The World (PICTURES)

International Women’s Day has been marked across the globe with political protest as well as celebration and solemn observation.

In Britain, Karren Brady, vice-chairman of West Ham United and Alex Wek, rights campaigner and model, whose family fled South Sudan following the civil war, joined Nick Clegg in opening the London Stock Exchange.

Prime Minister David Cameron met charities and campaigners to discuss how to deal with the problem of stalking. Blogging for the Huffington Post UK, Prime Minister Cameron made a call to arms, writing:

“It is despicable that in the 21st century so many medieval practices and attitudes remain. And it is appalling that time and again, this is shoved under the carpet. People turn a blind eye and a culture of shame and secrecy is perpetuated.

Stem Cells Could Offer Women ‘Unlimited Egg Supply’

In what could be a major breakthrough for fertility treatment, unlimited egg supply for women may be a step closer following new stem cell research.

The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, challenges the long-held belief that women are born with a finite supply of eggs that will be exhausted by menopause.

Scientists isolated stem cells in the ovaries of reproductive age women and found they can produce immature eggs (oocytes) in laboratory conditions – and further tests on mice revealed the eggs could be fertilised.

The study is not the first to dispute the notion that a woman’s egg supply is gradually depleted, running out by middle age.

Lead researcher Dr Jonathan Tilly, from Massachusetts General Hospital, first questioned this theory in 2004 in a study that revealed mice have some egg-producing stem cells.

Dr Tilly said: “The primary objective of the current study was to prove that oocyte-producing stem cells do in fact exist in the ovaries of women during reproductive life, which we feel this study demonstrates very clearly.”

Researchers found the stem cells, which go on to produce oocytes, by searching for a protein that is unique to the surface of the stem cells.

Oocytes are immature female sex cells that mature to give rise to a fully mature egg cell.

The researchers grafted human ovarian tissue around the stem cells inside mice and found they “spontaneously generated” egg cells that looked and acted like oocytes.

Woman With Two Vaginas: Hazel Jones Gets $1m Porn Offer From Vivid Entertainment (Video, Pictures)

A British woman with two vaginas has been offered $1m to appear in a porn film.

The offer was made to Hazel Jones by Vivid Entertainment boss Steve Hirsch, who wrote to her praising her as an “extraordinary woman”.

The letter, seen by TMZ, added: “I would like to make you an offer to star in an upcoming Vivid production. We would pay you up to $1m for your services.”

It is not yet known if Miss Jones has responded to the offer.

Miss Jones, 27, revealed her one in a million condition – known as uterus didelphys – on the This Morning show earlier this month.

Embarrassing Bodies health expert Dr Dawn Harper explained on the show that Hazel’s condition occurred because the uterus tube septum failed to break down when Miss Jones was a baby, meaning two uteruses formed instead of one.

Uterus didelphys, more commonly known as ‘double uterus’ happens when a woman’s uterus forms differently and goes on to develop into two uteruses (wombs). While the condition itself is not uncommon, having two separate vaginas is extremely rare.

”The two tubes have made two separate uteruses and two vaginas and two cervixes. And although it’s relatively common to have a septum within the uterus, to actually have two separate uteruses is much rarer – one in a million,” explained Dr Harper.

MIss Jones first discovered something was wrong when she reached puberty and started her periods at 14.