SEVEN-YEAR-OLD ALABAMA GIRL HELPS FUND OWN BRAIN SURGERY

Homewood (Alabama), March 4: Liza Scott, 7, started a lemonade stand at her mom's bakery last summer so she could buy some frills like toys and sequined highheel shoes. The bouncy little girl is still in business months later, yet the money is going toward something entirely different: Surgery on her brain.

Last month, doctors determined a series of seizures that Liza began suffering were caused by cerebral malformations that needed repair, said her mother, Elizabeth Scott. Always eager to help out and with an eye toward entrepreneurship after a childhood spent around a small business, the little girl volunteered to help raise money for her upcoming operation. Located near the cash register of Savage's Bakery in suburban Birmingham, her stand of bright pink and yellow wooden crates offers lemonade for a quarter, plus other treats. But people are putting in a lot more as word spreads of her medical condition. “I've got a $20 bill, a $50 bill and a $10 bill and a $5 bill and a $100 bill,” Liza said.

London, March 4: Britain's Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has had a “successful procedure” for a pre-existing heart condition at a London hospital where he was moved earlier this week, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday.

The 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II has now spent 16 nights in hospital first at the private King Edward VII's Hospital and now at St. Bartholomew's Hospital where he was transferred for further tests and observation for a preexisting heart condition.

“The Duke of Edinburgh yesterday [Wednesday] underwent a successful procedure for a pre-existing heart condition at St. Bartholomew's Hospital,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement about Prince Philip.