We all know the stories...twins separated at birth, united in adulthood, find their lives have been remarkably similar, from their hobbies and occupations to their tastes and life experiences. (Accepting of course that this doesn't happen with every pair of separated twins, and that even the...

From the BBC : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4378742.stm Rape case hears of twin brother The wood where the attack is alleged to have taken place A man accused of raping a student in Midlothian has lodged a special defence of alibi and has told the court he has an identical twin...

Operation begins on conjoined twins "Surgeons at a Los Angeles hospital have begun a rare operation to separate twin girls who are joined by the top of their heads. The skulls of the one-year-old girls, originally from Guatemala, are fused with their faces tilted in opposite directions...

Finnish twins joined in death Seventy-year-old twin brothers have died within hours of one another after separate accidents on the same road in northern Finland. The first of the twins died when he was hit by a lorry while riding his bike in Raahe, 600 kilometres north of the capital...