CRICIUMA, Brazil—A mother has given birth to twins, one of whom was born inside the amniotic sac. Twins Brayan and Emanuel were born in a hospital in the southern Brazilian city of Criciuma on Nov. 5. Often in twin births, a Cesarean section is performed and the amniotic sac is broken. The amniotic sac where one of the babies were born in. (ASSESSORIA DE IMPRENSA DO IDEAS/Newsflash)However, mother Keila Barbon Henrique delivered vaginally with Emanuel still inside the liquid-filled amniotic sac at birth. It’s a rare event that occurs in just one in 80,000 births. Brayan was born weighing 5.6…
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COLNIZA, Brazil—A singer and his friend involved in a plane crash have been found alive after being missing for 24 days in the Brazilian jungle with nothing to eat. Brazilian country singer Matheus Soliman, 22, and a friend, Fábio de Souza, had been missing since Oct. 4. They were found alive on a farm in the agricultural municipality of Colniza, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, on Oct. 29. Brazilian musician, Matheus Soliman, 22. (@matheus.soliman/Newsflash)The pair were making a flight between the city of São Luis and Machadinho d’Oeste, some 2,100 kilometres (1,300 miles) apart. Matheus, who lives in…
TEQUESQUITENGO, Mexico—Officers raiding the home of the former Mexico City Minister of Public Safety discovered a collection of cars and other luxury items. The Oct. 30 raid took place at the home of former Mexico City Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) Raymundo Collins, who lived in the Playa Coqueta neighborhood in Tequesquitengo, about 135 kilometers (85 miles) south of Mexico City. (The SSP provides preventative and uniformed police services in the country’s capital.) One of the forty-one luxury cars found during raid. (FGJCDMX /Newsflash) Earlier this ear, a judge in Mexico City ordered an arrest warrant for Collins for allegedly…
Anvita Cowshish, a young lawyer practising at the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India, decided to obtain a gun license in 2017 when she inherited a couple of her maternal grandfather’s civilian firearms. While the men in her family wanted to dispose of the heirloom guns, as they were deemed a “burden,” Cowshish wanted to keep the firearms because of the rising number of crimes against women in the country. However, the Delhi-based lawyer is discovering that the upkeep of the old guns is an uphill task. The guns were bought in England in the 1970s, much…
“Good morning, teacher,” a loud and clear chorus rings out as Pratibha Hilim, enters the verandah of her home in Maharashtra’s Karhe village, in Palghar district, where an open-air class is underway. Hilim, a bilateral amputee, is a Zila Parishad (district body) school teacher, who has taken on the task of teaching the students of her village, free of cost, in her own home. And she has been doing so for the last five months, through the Covid-19 lockdown. Brimming with energy and seemingly oblivious of her bilateral amputee condition, the 50-year-old decided to tutor children instead of remaining idle…
Most of us are used to a daily dose of digital communication that we receive through video calls, emails or text messages. But during the lockdown, forced isolation made us crave for human interaction. And that’s how Rohini Kejriwal, a 29-year-old from Bengaluru, India, came up with the idea of ‘Chitthi Exchange’ (letter exchange). Chitthi Exchange is a pen pal initiative aimed to bring back the charm of hand-written letters. “I wanted to bring back the feeling of comfort and the essence of nostalgia that comes with hand-written notes, post-cards or letters,” said Kejriwal. The project, initially, started as a…
An Indian rock python was rescued by the Department of Wildlife (DWC), Sri Lanka, from Ritigala last month. Although the Indian rock species is common in Asian countries, this python found in the North-Central part of Sri Lanka was an exotic albino variety. “This is the first time that an albino python has been found in Sri Lanka,” said Dr. Tharaka Prasad, director of health, Department of Wildlife. “There is a high demand for rare animals like this python.” “A villager had caught this python and tried to sell it at a high profit, but he failed,” said Prasad. “The…
Maya Verma, a resident of Chanoli village in Uttarakhand’s Almora district, is a water champion who has helped revive naulas and dharas, traditional Himalayan water sources, in 15 villages of Almora. Since October 2017, because of the efforts of Verma and her fellow village women, the revived naulas now have water in them throughout the year. Earlier, they would go dry in the summers. While naulas are found in the mid-Himalayan elevations, dharas mostly occur in the upper Himalayas, just below the snow line. The rejuvenation of Himalayan springs like naulas and dharas has turned around the fortunes of women who…
After combating calls for a boycott on social media earlier, the Amazon Prime Video show “Mirzapur,” that is in its second season, is creating headlines again. Earlier this week, Hindi author Surender Mohan Pathak, 81, accused the series’ makers of misrepresenting his 2010 book “Dhabba” in the show. In a scene, Satyanand Tripathi, played by actor Kulbhushan Kharbanda, is shown to be reading Pathak’s novel. A voiceover reads out an explicitly sexual, purported “excerpt” about a character called Baldev, who lusts after his cousin and spies on her while she’s bathing. Pathak sent a legal notice to the makers of Mirzapur saying…
New Delhi — India and China — two of Asia’s biggest economies — are tightening their regulatory norms to closely monitor the expansion of fintech firms in their countries. A $37 billion Ant Group initial public offer (IPO) — the biggest on record — was supposed to hit the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges on Nov. 5. But on Nov. 3, the Shanghai exchange suspended the stock market listing, saying that changes in the regulatory environment meant that the Ant Group no longer met the conditions for the IPO. Ant Group then issued a statement announcing that it was suspending…