VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A woman has given birth to what is believed to be Canada's first set of sextuplets, and the infants were in listed in fair condition, hospital officials said.

The newborns — each weighing only 1 pound, 6 ounces to 1 pound, 12 ounces and not much bigger than an outstretched hand — were delivered over the weekend at B.C. Women's Hospital and Health Center.

Citing privacy concerns, hospital officials declined to identify the family or give other details about the births, saying only that they were delivered almost three months premature.

NAIROBI, Kenya — None of the top three suspected terrorists in Somalia were killed in a U.S. airstrike this week, but Somalis with close ties to al-Qaida were slain, a senior U.S. official in the region said today.A day earlier, a Somali official had said a U.S. intelligence report had referred to the death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed — one of the three senior al-Qaida members believed responsible for bombing U.S. embassies in East Africa.But U.S. and Ethiopian troops in southern Somalia were still pursuing the three, the U.S. official said today on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record to the media.