They were abandoned by their parents at eight-weeks old and are being hand-fed small portions of fish twice a day and weighed to monitor their progress.
Hong Kong potter Marco Fu beat Shropshire qualifier Adrian Gunnell 5-3 to progress, while local favourite Ryan Day impressed with a 5-2 victory over Belfast's Mark Allen.
This year we must take the opportunity to set a long-sought pathway to protection for workers' and immigrants' rights -- so that May Day 2014 can be a day to celebrate the progress we have made together.
The five-day Geneva talks - officially called the Durban Review Conference - are meant to review progress in fighting racism since a 2001 forum in Durban, South Africa.
In a series of private meetings on Thursday night, John Hume's party is believed to have advised both the British and Irish governments that the only way to protect the progress made in recent months was a one-day suspension, or a 'commercial break' suspension as one SDLP figure described it.
And it is the example of Africans -- from Liberia to Mozambique to Sierra Leone -- that after the darkness of war, there can be a new day of peace and progress.
Jerusalem (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Israel on Wednesday to launch a four-day swing through the Middle East that focuses attention on major issues such as Iran's nuclear progress and the Israel-Palestinian peace process.