US Doctors performs First Full Face Transplant

World's Most Polluted Town

Karabash is a town in the Chelyabinsk region with 15 000 citizens. It was founded when people found gold deposits there in 1822. In the beginning of the 20th century copper started to be extracted as well. After decades of the extraction of copper ore and metal smelting the town became the area of ecological emergency.
Initially there were no treatment facilities – in the USSR no one cared about ecology. Acid rains pose extreme danger to the ecological situation.

World's biggest Family: The man with 39 wives, 94 children & 33 grandchildren

• Ziona Chana lives with all of them in a 100-room mansion
• His wives take it in turns to share his bed
• It takes 30 whole chickens just to make dinner

He is head of the world's biggest family - and says he is 'blessed to have his 39 wives. Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories.

The full monty: The Ziona family in its entirety with all 181 members

Japan under the influence of 8.9 Earthquake And A Massive Tsunami

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• Tokyo airport now functional.
• Sendei devastated. 
• ]Indians in Tokyo, Yakohoma, Oshu safe and sound as per Indian Embassy 
• Indians elsewhere, no news, trying to establish connections through locals and associations.
• Indians in Tokyo scared due to aftershocks, embassy suffers minor damages.
• Metro in Tokyo back to work, other railway lines closed due to after shocks.
• At least 19 people reported dead and several people buried in landslide
• People in cars try to outrun waves on coastal highways
• Japanese PM says no radiation leaks report after nuclear plants close
• Hundreds injured after ceiling caves in at Tokyo graduation ceremony
• Physicist describes event as one of history's 'great quakes'
• Buildings rocked in China's capital Beijing, 1,500 miles away
• Hawaii on tsunami alert: Wave expected to hit at 3am local time
• UK airlines cancel flights to Tokyo following the devastation
• Huge tsunami waves have washed away buildings and cars after a massive earthquake struck off the coast of Japan.
• The earthquake, measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale, sent ten-metre waves surging inland and caused fires in Tokyo.
• Japan's meteorological agency said the tsunami struck Sendai, which has a population of about one million.

Creeping dread: In this image from Japan's NHK TV video footage, houses in Sendai are washed away by the tsunami as the waves power ashore

Threat: Local footage shows another wave speeding towards the shore

Japan submerged: Government broadcaster NHK shows cars on a flooded street in the Miyagi region following the earthquake-triggered tsumani

The World's Hairiest Girl

Supatra Sasuphan is clearly having the last laugh. The 11-year-old has gone from being teased by her peers to being given a Guinness World Record for being the world's hairiest girl. Often referred to as monkey face or wolf girl, the Thailand native suffers from Hypertrichosis, also known as Ambras Syndrome. She has thick strands of hair growing over her face, ears, arms, legs and back and nothing can stop the hair growth, not even laser treatment. The older the wolf child gets, the thicker her hair becomes.

Indian guy from IIT to Google

Naga Naresh Karutura has just passed out of IIT Madras in Computer Science and has joined Google in Bangalore.  You may ask, what's so special about this 21-year-old when there are hundreds of students passing from various IITs and joining big companies like Google?

Naresh is special. His parents are illiterate. He has no legs and moves around in his powered wheel chair.
Ever smiling, optimistic and full of spirit; that is Naresh. He says, "God has always been planning things for me. That is why I feel I am lucky."  Read why Naresh feels he is lucky.

World AIDS day 2010

| How World Aids Day has been commemorated around the world |

HIV infected and affected children play outside their primary school premises of the Community Health Education Society on the outskirts of Chennai, India. The Indian health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told parliament last week that nearly 53,000 children in the country are HIV positive. He admitted that the major source of the infection "is vertical transmission from their infected pregnant mothers". While India may have stemmed the Aids epidemic "it miserably failed in prevention of parent to child transmission of HIV", says the Aids Society of India (ASI), a professional body of doctors in HIV care

Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS, holds a copy of the organisation's 2010 report on the global Aids epidemic at the UN European headquarters in Geneva last week

A wall mural in downtown Johannesburg shows a city skyline with an Aids ribbon passing through workers who make a living in the town. The UN report says the global Aids epidemic has slowed and cited a drop in new HIV infections. Infections rates in South Africa have reduced by more than 25% in the past decade

A college student displays a red ribbon, the symbol for Aids awareness, at a rally to mark World Aids Day in Jammu, India

Aids activists take part in a flash-mob to mark World Aids Day today in Paris. The banner reads: "Right to heath for anyone, including in France." Around the world there were an estimated 2.6 million new infections last year, down from about 3.3 million at the peak of the Aids epidemic in 1999, according to Paul De Lay, deputy executive director of UNAIDS

Red and white balloons are tied to a platform during World Aids Day in Manila, Philippines

A volunteer prepares red ribbons for the Red Carnival - World Aids Day awareness campaign in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, held last Sunday. The World Health Organisation declared the first World Aids Day in 1987 to remember those who had died of the disease

An Indian sex worker looks on during an Aids awareness rally, in which sex workers, transgendered minorities and HIV-positive people took part yesterday

View of a condom vending machine installed on the Red Ribbon Express, a train for spreading Aids awareness. The eight-coach train, with both doctors and volunteers, has arrived in Delhi after a one-year journey. The volunteers will distribute information on prevention of HIV/Aids. During the year it travelled to 10,000 villages in 141 districts across the country

A Bangladeshi sex worker takes a rest after attending a rally to observe World Aids Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The total number of HIV infected people in the country now stands at 1,745

A member of National Association of People Living with HIV/Aids in Nepal holds placard during a function to mark World Aids Day in Kathmandu. The protesters are demanding clarification on how the donation of $30m provided by the World Bank for people who are HIV positive will be spent. The Nepalese government says 13 people are being infected each day. Some 72,000 people are HIV-positive in Nepal, according to the latest UNAIDS annual estimation, although the Ministry of Health and Population claims the figure stood at 14,787 in mid-October

The Sydney Opera House and harbour bridge in Australia were lit red yesterday to mark World Aids Day. More than 80 iconic landmarks across 13 countries will be 'turned' red to promote awareness of the ongoing fight against the Aids epidemic

People dressed as condoms hold up signs during a performance during an Aids and HIV prevention campaign in Lima, Peru yesterday. The signs read "responsible love = condom", "Protect from Aids, use a condom" and "Condom or nothing"

A volunteer tries to paste an red Aids ribbon on a poster during a World Aids Day event in Beijing. China has reported more than 68,000 Aids-related deaths as of the end of October, up nearly 20,000 year on year

A Thai activist wears a condom costume as he sleeps next to placards and condoms during the commemoration of World Aids Day in Bangkok, Thailand

A Turkish activist performs with a transparent ball on during a World Aids Day rally in the centre of Istanbul

A girl signs a board next to a red ribbon as students commemorate World Aids Day at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Girls hold a banner that reads "condoms protect you of HIV/Aids" during an HIV/Aids awareness event staged by the Red Cross in Bucharest, Romania, yesterday

A volunteer of the Indian Red Cross Society lights a candle during an HIV and Aids awareness rally yesterday in Agartala, the capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura

London Mayor Boris Johnson unveils the Body Shop Be an activist exhibition at City Hall in London. The exhibition features photography by Rankin of individuals affected by HIV/Aids

At a flash-mob in Paris, an Aids activist shows a false plane ticket explaining the case of a 50-year-old Togolese worker, who has been living, working and receiving medical care in France for 15 years, but who the French authorities want to send back to Africa

A patient is reflected in a mirror on a wall as she rests in a HIV/Aids hospice founded by a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party in Yangon, Burma last week. Currently patients in this hospice need to obtain permits, which are issued by the government, to allow them to stay for two-week periods. All permits will expire on Friday and will not be extended by the government, according to a hospice worker. There are around 270,000 people who are HIV positive in Myanmar and most are unable to afford antiretroviral drugs, according to the UN.

Tippi - A girl born in the wild African Jungle

This French girl, Tippi, was born in Nairobi, Africa in 1990. Grew up in the jungles with her parents who are wild life photographers. They documented her life with the animals. She went back to France @ the age of 10. Here are some of her amazing pics...

The most mysterious & horrible creatures you never want to meet

There are some imaginary creatures which haunt us every time once after we start imagining it or have seen or heard of them anywhere and we some time relate it among the terrible nightmares of life time. Given below are some of the those horrible creatures of the world which we have heard about from any person or have read about it at any where and most of us have watched it on television, which had possibly made a haunting image on your minds and you will never ever expects them to see it in real, though we know well that most of them or every of them are not in actual but just some imaginary characters.




1. Big foot/ Yeti/ Sasquatch

“Most witnessed unknown creatures in the world.”

Half-headed man