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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Baby boy with 6 legs


The doctors at NICH Karachi, Pakistan on successfully operated on the six-legged baby boy on Thursday. A team of five experienced doctors fought to save the life of the infant born with six legs because of a rare genetic condition. The baby was operated in National Institute of Child Heath (NICH) Karachi. After a hectic effort, the doctors successfully separated four legs from the body of the baby. According to head of NICH Dr Jamal Raza, the extra limbs were separated after surgery as the limbs were result of a genetic disease which would affect only one in a million or more babies. “It was strange that apparently an abnormal baby with six legs was as normal as other children,” he said. Doctors examined MRI, blood tests, CT scan reports and other test and later took the decision to do surgery which lasted for eight-hours in different phases. The infant was born to the wife of an X-ray technician a week ago. Mr Sheikh said he had married Afshan, 27, about five years back and this was their first child. According to experts, the term “conjoined twins” is used to refer to identical twins that are attached to each other in the womb. Estimated to take place in one in every 50,000 to 100,000 births, a higher prevalence of conjoined twins is reported in southern Asia and Africa A doctor at the NICH said that around 75 per cent of conjoined twins died because of medical complications resulting from the condition. Most of the time, surgery was used to separate the twins if it had been determined, there was no risk of killing them.

Pictures of Bhoja Air crash in Pakistan


 






Norwegian mass murderer killed 77 people


Norwegian mass murderer used computer wargames to plan attacks that killed 77 people last summer. Judges returned to an Oslo court, after a short break, on Thursday (April 19) to hear mass killer Anders Behring Breivik s testimony on events in the summer of 2006 right up to the moment he massacred 77 people in July last year. The Norwegian anti-Islamic fanatic Anders Behring Breivik told the court in the morning that he used computer games to prepare for his attacks and spent a whole year playing the game for hours on end. Breivik said he spent "lots of time" playing Modern Warfare, a first-person shooting game, and also took an entire yearoff to play World of Warcraft, a multi-player role-playing game with more than 10 million subscribers. Breivik started testifying on Tuesday (April 17) and the prosecution has moved forwards chronologically, covering 33-year-old Breivik s adult life - his career, interests and possible contacts. On Friday (April 20), the prosecutors will focus on what happened after the bombing, when Breivik drove to the youth camp on Utoeya - an island in a lake 40 km (25 miles) outside the capital - and gunned down dozens of victims as police took more than an hour to get to the island in the chaos following the bomb blast. While he will probably be kept behind bars for the rest of his life, Breivik s main objective is to prove he is sane, a court judgement that he thinks would vindicate his anti-Muslim and anti-immigration cause. An initial psychiatric evaluation concluded that Breivik was criminally insane while a second, completed in the past week, found no evidence of psychosis. He has said being labelled insane would be a "fate worse than death". The trial is set to last ten weeks, and a verdict is expected in mid-July.