Doctors in Romania have announced that 67 year-old Adriana Iliescu, an author and academic, is pregnant and expecting twins. She is now 7 months pregnant after successful fertility treatment.
If the rest of the pregnancy and the birth goes well she will become the world's oldest known mother. Iliescu told local press that she had always wanted to become a mum, but couldn't become pregnant naturally.
Last year a 65 year-old woman from Nayagarh in Orissa, India gave birth to a healthy boy. Satyabhama Mahapatra, a teacher, had been impregnated with her niece's egg fertilised by her husband.