Indian carpenter with world record 28 fingers and toes in constant fear
An Indian carpenter who has 28 fingers and toes says he has to be extra careful not to slice off one of his extra digits at work.
Devendra Suthar, from Himmatnagar in Gujarat, in western India, has more digits than anyone else on the planet - something that is recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records.
A carpenter by profession, the 43-year-old suffers from a condition called Polydactylism. He has seven fingers on each hand and seven toes on each foot - though two of his toes are joined
Scientists who have grown a human EAR on a rat will be able to use them in 5 years
Human ears to could be ‘grown to order’ within five years, claim Japanese scientists who have unveiled a rat with an ear on its back.
The Tokyo and Kyoto university technology could be used to help children born with facial abnormalities, as well as youngsters mauled by dogs.
Adults, including soldiers injured in battle of people who have suffered accidents, could also benef
At the moment, replacement ears are sculpted from cartilage taken from the patient’s ribs.
However, multiple operations are needed, plus the removal of the cartilage is painful and chest never fully heals.
In contrast, the new technique would require just a small sample of cells as starting material.
Plus, the finished ear would be a living thing and so should grow with the child.
The scientists began by turning human stem cells – ‘master cells’ – into cartilage cells.
The lab-grown cartilage was then formed into tiny balls and placed in inside plastic tubes shaped like a human ear on a rat’s back.
After two months, the framework dissolved, leaving behind what looks like a two-inch hear lying flat against the animal’s back.
The technique is one of several being perfected around the world, in the aim of making bespoke replacements for body parts damaged by accidents, ravaged by disease or malformed at birth.
Heartrending picture of baby girl born in India with only half a head and bulbous eyes
A baby girl has been born in India without a head that has
left her with shockingly protruding eyes,
Savitha Rani, 32, from Uttar Pradesh, in
northern India, gave birth to her ‘miracle baby’ on Tuesday
after a natural birth.
But soon after the birth she became the talk of the town due
to her shocking features. A large number of people started
to even gather outside the at Sai Nursing Home clinic in the
hope of seeing the ‘miracle child’.
Two days later, however, the baby girl tragically died of
heart failure.
Opossum miraculously survives after being shot in the head and torso with crossbow arrows
An opossum was found in California on Friday after being
shot in the head and torso with what appeared to be
crossbow arrows,
Riverside County Department of Animal Services were
amazed by the opossum's survival after it was found trying
to remove the arrows near an intersection in the city's La
Sierra neighborhood.
The arrows, described in news release from the department
as 'crossbow arrows', struck the marsupial the the side of
its body and near its right eye.
Animal officials responded to the scene after a caller
reported the wounded animal's location.
'The animal was very alert and you could tell it was trying to
remove the arrows itself,' the department of animal
services's Sgt Cynthia Lee said in the statement.
'The opossum was grabbing the arrow on its side. What a
horrible thing to do to an animal,' she said,
Animal Control Officer Jennifer Selter took the opossum to
the county’s Western Riverside County/City Animal Shelter
in Jurupa Valley, where a staff veterinarian immediately
began surgery.
The opossum survived the surgery and is now recovering at
the animal hospital,
The four-year-old girl in India with a tumour on her head the size of a football
'She was a normal child but as she grew, we noticed a lump growing in the middle of her head,' explained her mother Pramila, a domestic worker.
'At first we thought it was just a boil and would go but it only grew bigger with time.
'She would cry if I touch it or lie her down for sleep.'
But her parents could do little but wipe away her tears, as Renu could not have an operation because they did not have the money to see a doctor.
But she was saved by the kindness of strangers, who raised awareness of her plight by posting shocking pictures on social media.
Her story reached Akhilesh Yadav, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, who asked officials to give Renu a free operation to remove it.
The rare tumour, known as giant occipital encephalocele, was finally cut off by a team of surgeons at King George's Medical University, Lucknow, on December 22.
The tumour, one of only two known cases in the world, had been growing in Renu's occipital region - the part of the brain which controls sight - ever since she was born, said Dr SN Kureel.
But while it was benign, it was still dangerous.
'If it was not operated quickly, the tumor would have grown further and eventually ruptured. If that had happened, she would have lost her life,' Dr Kureel explained.
Colombian Policewoman saves the life of abandoned newborn baby
found in forest by breastfeeding her
An abandoned newborn baby girl was saved from starving to death when a heroine cop breastfed her while they waited for paramedics.
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New mother Luisa Fernanda Urrea - a police officer in La Marina, Colombia - had been called to a remote forest settlement when locals found the baby in the undergrowth.
Medics say that without her maternal support, the hours-old baby might have succumbed to starvation and hypothermia.
She told local media: 'I'm a new mother and I have milk and I recognised the needs that this poor little creature had.'
She added: 'I think any woman would have given her nourishment in the same circumstances.'
Heart-warming story of how this one Japanese train station
is kept open for just a single passenger
This is one of those stories that will fill your heart with joy and leave you smiling.
Kami-Shirataki, a remote train station in Japan that was meant to close down three years ago, has stayed active to cater to one lone passenger. A train makes stops at the station twice each day just so a teen can travel to and from high school.
According to reports, Kana Harada, who is among the 40-odd residents of the village of Shirataki, is the only person to board the special train at 7:04 am and return in the evening at 5:08 pm sharp.
Even though the train station was meant to shut down, Japan Railways decided to continue services just for Kana. According to the CCTV Facebook page, the station has a unique timetable keeping Kana's travel details in mind.
The station will continue the special service until March 26, Kana's graduation, and close down for good after that.
A newborn baby slowly dying in minus 16C temperatures has been rescued just minutes before death after its parents abandoned it in a drain. The child was left without so much as a rag as it became stiff and blue while enduring freezing temperatures overnight. The newborn’s gender was not identified in reports from Ordos, one of 12 major cities in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where the child was found lying in a pool of excrement. Passers-by were reported to have discovered the child and initially thought it was dead before a brave policeman jumped in the drain to fish it out.
A mountain lion has been discovered in southeast Idaho with a second set of teeth growing out of its head.
The big cat was killed by an unidentified hunter last week in Weston, who then reported the animal's bizarre deformity to the authorities, Idaho State Journal reports.
Idaho conservation officers, who were sent a photograph of the kill, were shocked to find the year-old lion had a separate set of teeth growing out the left side of its forehead.
Experts have not been able to agree on the cause of the unusual mutation.
One theory is that the mountain lion's extra set of teeth may be remnants from a conjoined twin which died in the womb.
Another is that it is a type of tumor called a teratoma which can sometimes grow other body parts such as hair, teeth, bones - even eyes.
Regional wildlife biologist Zach Lockyer told Idaho State Journal the unusual deformity had left experts stumped.
Ötzi the iceman has fascinated scientists since his frozen 5,300-year-old corpse was discovered by Alpine hikers in 1991.
Now, three and a half years after discovering that Ötzi was murdered, experts have now found discovered was suffering from a nasty stomach bug.
It is this bug which has shed fascinating new light on the migration patterns of prehistoric man, showing that Europe’s first farmers are most likely to have come from the Middle East
The findings have been presented to the journal Science by a research team from the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, at the European Research Academy in Bolzano, Italy.
Painstaking work has enabled the scientists to use the ulcer bacterium in Ötzi’s stomach to determine the origins of Europe’s first farmers.
Scientists recovered samples of Helicobacter pylori from his frozen stomach tissue. It is a bacterium which infects about half the human population and is also linked to stomach ulcers.
A hybrid version of the bacterium is still to be found in modern day Europeans. It is a hybrid of strains originating in Eurasia and Africa.
The strain discovered in Ötzi’s stomach remains is purely Eurasian which, according to experts, is hugely significant.
It had been believed that Africans moved into Europe more than 20,000 years ago as the glaciers began to retreat.
Had this been the case there should have been evidence of the African strain in Ötzi’s stomach tissue.
But the presence of only the Eurasian strain has led scientists to believe that the Africans arrived after Ötzi came to a bloody end – having been shot with an arrow and then bludgeoned to death.
Instead Ötzi’s DNA resembles that of farmers who came from the Middle East, possibly having originated in Asia – with the strain of bacterium most closely resembling that now found in and around India. Source : The Telegraph
A nurse spends $10,000 having 4lbs of fat injected into her bum so she can look like Kim Kardashian A nurse has undergone $10,291 (£7,000) worth of plastic surgery so she can have a bum to rival her idol Kim Kardashian. In a bid to make her bottom more bootilicious, Marlene Chinea, 36, underwent a Brazilian Butt lift, where doctors injected four pounds of fat into her backside to make it bigger. Marlene, from Miami Beach, Florida, decided to undergo the dramatic procedure after years of attempting to naturally boost her asset with no results. 'No matter how much exercise I did, I'd never get the results I wanted,' she said. 'I was okay with my bum before but I thought a little more would accentuate my assets. I simply wanted more projection. Marlene claims that working out for several hours, five to six times a week, she still couldn't get the results she wanted. At one point she claims she was doing over 300 squats or lunges a day. But before Marlene could undergo the operation she had to gain as much weight as she could - the procedure involved taking fat from other body parts and transferring it to her bum.
Photographs purporting to show the President of Croatia in a bikini has gone viral, earning the head of state a whole new fanbase.
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However, the photos claiming to be of Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, 47, were not of the president at all, but of U.S. model Coco Austin, famous for her voluptuous shape and marriage to rapper Ice-T.
The beach snaps first appeared on Twitter, with many showing their appreciation for the 'president' and expressing a sudden interest in moving to Croatia.
The pictures of Coco mis-credited to be of the president, taken on holiday with her husband Ice-T in Miami in 2009, were posted with captions such as: 'Croatian President, new crush alert', and '*moves 2 Zagreb*'.
On Monday, a number of South African news websites republished the pictures, still unaware that they were in fact of Coco Austin, proclaiming that the president 'broke the internet'. source : Dailymail
A creepy ultrasound photo that appears to show a 'demon' watching over an unborn baby has gone viral.
The image, posted by an anonymous Imgur user, has been viewed over a million times in two days as internet users offer their various interpretations of the eerie photo.
It shows a foetus, which appears to be around eight-to-10 weeks old, and what looks like a menacing face with a naked body outside the womb.
The user wrote: 'A friend's ultrasound. When you see it...' along with the photograph which was posted on New Year's Day.
The 'figure' seems to stretch from the top of the ultrasound to its base and includes a face with large black eyes and a horn-shaped mark on its head.
Jaelyn Valencia was born just one minute before the clock struck 12 on New Year's Eve to parents Maribel and Luis Valencia.
Her brother Luis Valencia Jr. was not far behind at 12.01am on New Year's Day, but the parents already expect that those two minutes will cause some classic sibling rivalry.
'Maribel really wanted to have the babies on the same birthday,' Luis told NBC San Diego.
'Because, you know, later on in the years they're going to have a little confrontation and be like "My birthday came first.'"
But now the parents are just happy to have two healthy babies, who were both measured to be 18.5 inches long.
Jaelyn weighed 4lb 15 ounces and Luis weighed 5lb 9 ounces.
It was at the beginning of the year 2015, when Kolinda
Grabar-Kitarović ascended to power as as the fourth
president of the Republic of Croatia and the first female
president of the country.
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The good looking president Kolinda
Grabar-Kitarović is married to Jakov Kitarović with whom
they have two children; a girl aged 14 and a 12-
year-old boy .
Despite being the most respected person in Croatia, Kolinda
Grabar-Kitarović's bikini photos surfaced online and the
internet went crazy as compliments flooded the social
media forums with the "sexiest president alive" label being
common. Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic must
have taken these photos before being sworn in as the
president of Croatia.
British soldiers could face murder charges for their actions on the battlefield during the Iraq war.
Investigators from the Iraq Historic Allegation Team (Ihat) set up by the Ministry of Defence disclosed last night that UK soldiers who have served in Iraq may face prosecution for crimes including murder.
It is likely to raise fears among hundreds of soldiers that they could be arrested and charged simply for doing their duty.
Mark Warwick – the head of Ihat, which was established in 2010 to investigate alleged criminal activity by UK forces – said the unit had been ‘overwhelmed with cases’.
While it has been investigating hundreds of allegations, this is the first time it is thought there is evidence for successful prosecution.
The number of victims of alleged ill-treatment in Iraq between 2003 and 2009 has risen tenfold since the unit was set up. In 2010, it was dealing with cases involving 152 victims. The figure is now 1,500 victims, according to Ihat’s latest quarterly update.
Of these, 280 are victims of alleged unlawful killing by UK forces in Iraq, and there are 1,235 alleged cases of ill-treatment, including accusations of rape and torture.
