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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ From foreign press In Britain, a 41-year-old woman has given birth to a third set of twins, local media said. Twin girls Isla and Rowan were born Wednesday in the city of Glasgow. They are the third set of twins for the mother Karen Rodger. She has two other sets of boys, now 12 and 14 years old. They made headline news in the local media. Some described the Rodger family's news as a "Hat trick of twins". Commenting on how hard it will be to take care of six children, the mother said that having a large family around the table at Christmas time will make it all worthwhile. Also in the Czech Republic, a mother safely delivered five babies on Sunday, for the first time in the country's history. 23-year-old Alexandra Kinova gave birth to four boys and one girl by Caesarean section with the help of 40 doctors and nurses. The operation had been planned for a month. The quintuplets have one older brother. xxxxxxx Victims of Tiananmen incident mourned in Hong Kong. People have gathered at a memorial in Hong Kong to pray for the victims of the 1989 crackdown on the democratic uprising at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. A Hong Kong-based pro-democracy group organized its annual event at a downtown park on Tuesday night. The organizer says about 150,000 people showed up. Braving downpours, the participants mourned the victims at the candlelight vigil. A statement by the organizer urges the Chinese government to change its views on the incident which it maintains was a political disturbance by some students. It also calls for the release of pro-democracy activists detained in mainland China. The Chinese government still refuses to allow a memorial like this on the mainland even after President Xi Jinping took office. It has barred some people from traveling to Hong Kong to attend the event. Twenty-four years on, the Tiananmen incident remains a thorny issue for China. A student from mainland China attended the event for the first time. She said the government should tell its people exactly what happened without cover-ups and distortion. xxxxxxx A new lighting system using LED bulbs has been installed to illuminate the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, lit by LED lights made by Japanese manufacturer Toshiba, was shown to the media on Tuesday. Representatives from Toshiba used a replica of the painting to explain the system. The new system uses 34 LED lights arranged to evenly highlight the painting. The color tone was adjusted with the cooperation of Louvre curators. The new lighting helps to make the Mona Lisa's skin tone more vivid and the lake and forest in the background look clearer. The use of infrared and ultraviolet rays is kept to a minimum to protect the painting. Louvre managing director Herve Barbaret thinks the new technology has restored the original state of the work that Da Vinci wanted to express.

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