A couple in Germany have become famous after giving birth to twins with different skin colours.

Leo and Ryan were born in a clinic in Berlin on July 11 and have since become celebrities.

The babies' mother Florence Gerth, who is originally from Ghana described the unproblematic birth as something of a surprise: "So he comes out first and he is ok, so I think, it's ok. And then Leo comes out and Leo is black. And I thought: What's going on?".

"But then later on I thought, ok it's just nature. God made it and he knows. But then for the last three or four days I have been looking at the children because it is amazing. It really is."

The possibility of such a genetic mix is one-in-one million explained the head of the women's hospital Sana Klinikum in Berlin-Lichtenberg, Sylvia Gericke, who after 21 years in the job said she had never before seen a birth of twins, one black and one white.

But all of it was irrelevant to parents of Ryan and Leo who were purely happy that both of the boys were healthy.

According to the hospital, Ryan now weighs 2650 grams and is 49 centimetres long. His brother Leo is one centimetre longer and weighed in at 2606 grams.

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