Kate Middleton Stuns in Sequined Jenny Packham Gown in First Red Carpet Apperance Since Royal Baby Birth

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Now this is what you call a new mom glow!

Kate Middleton may have dressed causally for her first appearance since welcoming Prince George on July 22, but for her red carpet debut she went all out.

Clad in a dazzling metallic Jenny Packham gown and matching sandals, the duchess attended the Tusk Conservation Awards at the Royal Society in London on Thursday with husband Prince William.

Thanks to the dress's silky sequin draping, the elegant number emphasized her super-slim new mom body, which the world has already gotten glimpses of in the last few weeks.

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Of course, this is the second time since welcoming her first child that the Duchess of Cambridge has opted for the British designer. She now-famously had a blue polka-dot frock specially made by the brand for Prince George's first photos outside of St. Mary's Hospital in London.

Unlike that dress, this Jenny Packham gown is indeed for sale. Well, for a limited time. No doubt this style will sell out in only a matter of hours.

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U.S. teenage birth rate at new low, government report shows

By Lisa Maria Garza

Fri Sep 6, 2013 10:01pm EDT

n">(Reuters) - The rate of teenage pregnancy in the United States is at a historic low, and has dropped by more than half in the last two decades, declining across nearly all racial and ethnic groups, according to a government report released on Friday.

The rate for girls ages 15-19 dropped to 29.4 births per 1,000 last year from 31.3 per 1,000 in 2011. This was less than half the 61.8 births per 1,000 teenage girls recorded in 1991.

"That is an astonishing success in terms of this particular topic of debate," said Brady Hamilton, a statistician with the National Center for Health Statistics who led the data collection. The Center is part of the U.S. government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The numbers have steadily declined over the last two decades, except for a brief spike in 2006 and 2007, Hamilton said. Among racial and ethnic groups, the largest decline since 2007 was reported for Hispanic teenagers, for whom the rate dropped 39 percent to 46.3 births per 1,000 to 2012 from 2007.

Last year, the rate of births for white, Black, Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander teenagers declined from 5 to 7 percent compared to 2011.

Bill Albert, a spokesman for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, said it was impossible to predict if the drop in teenage mothers will continue, so it is important for parents and policymakers not to mistake progress for absolute victory.

"Obviously they are making better decisions, having less sex and using more contraception," he said.

The Obama administration has invested in efforts aimed at lowering the rate of teenage pregnancies. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gave $155 million in teenage pregnancy prevention grants to states, school districts and non-profit organizations.

(Editing by Eric Walsh)

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Giant panda in Madrid zoo gives birth to male cub

MADRID | Sat Aug 31, 2013 12:12pm EDT

MADRID (Reuters) - A giant panda in Madrid zoo has given birth to a healthy male and the one-day old, pink-skinned cub is already proving a handful, screaming his way through his first medical checkup.

The new arrival, delivered after a natural birth in the early hours of Friday, is only the 10th specimen of the highly endangered animal in Europe, Madrid zoo said.

The cub - the third for Giant Panda Hua Zui Ba, whose twins born in 2010 have since been transferred to China - weighed in at a larger-than-average 210 grams and was 15 centimeters long.

"The team of specialists and veterinarians have confirmed it is a boy with a good set of lungs," the zoo said in a statement. "The new giant panda cub...has shown it has a lot of character."

Visitors will be unable to see Madrid's baby panda, which has not yet been named, for several months. Its Giant Panda mother was now unlikely to give birth to a second cub, the zoo said. Female pandas can often have two offsprings at a time.

Like Madrid's newest cub, most pandas bred in captivity are conceived through artificial insemination. Reproduction is difficult as females are only able to conceive for about two or three days in the spring.

There are roughly 300 giant pandas in captivity throughout the world, and fewer than 1,600 living in the wild, in a few mountain ranges in central China.

Britain is also gripped with "baby fever" over the possible birth of a panda at Scotland's Edinburgh zoo, expected within weeks.

Only 10 Giant Pandas now live in captivity in Europe, including in Edinburgh and Beauval in France. Vienna zoo's Giant Panda female gave birth to a cub in mid-August.

(Reporting by Sarah White, Editing by David Evans)

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