The baby, born due to a rare anomaly with six legs, was successfully operated on in Pakistan, reports Skynews . During the operation, Umaru Faruk was removed extra limbs, and the doctors say that he can live normally. Farok was born with a rare - one for a million - an anomaly called polymelia, during which the embryo in the womb develops normally, but is a fused twins. In the later stages, one fruit “dissolves”, leaving behind the extra limbs to the strongest of the twins.

On Friday evening, on April 20, in the Dagestan city of Derbent, the chief accountant of RIA "Dagestan" Ramazan Novruzaliev was killed. The offender killed him with a shot in the region of the heart, when Novruzaliev had dinner at the Hayal shopping and entertainment complex, Interfax reports. From the wounds received, the victim died on the way to the hospital. "The criminal for" hot "traces could not be detained.

Giant water tanks are located under the surface of the arid regions of Africa, British geologists said. They came to the conclusion that the total volume of water in the bowels of the continent is a hundred times higher than the contents of ground reservoirs. Researchers of the British Geological Council and the University of London College substantiate their opinion by the results of an extensive study of Africa and maps of groundwater.

A group of UN observers, monitoring clashes between government troops and the opposition in Syria, visited the city of Homs, which recently was an arena of the armed opposition and government forces of President Bashar al -Assad, Syrian agency SANA visited Saturday. The same information was confirmed by the UN representatives. "A group of observers is directed to the Homs ... They visit urban areas," said UN representative Haled al -Masri.

The police near Moscow detained more than three dozen participants in the protest against laying a highway in the area of ​​the city of Zhukovsky, said the official representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Moscow Region Yevgeny Gildeev. According to him, about 200 citizens took part in the action, the so -called "popular gathering".

The winner of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the 40-year-old American Rolon Gardner, who inflicted the only defeat of Alexander Karelin in the international arena, plans to perform at the qualifying tournament in the US Olympic team. The winners of the competitions that will be held this weekend are guaranteed to receive a ticket to games in London. Rolon Gardner left sports after the Athenian Olympics, at which he became a bronze medalist.

In all the cathedrals of the Russian Orthodox Church, prayers and standing in defense of faith, scolded shrines, church and its good name will be held on Sunday, Interfax reports. The decision on this was made by the Higher Church Council as a response to blasphemy committed in recent months.

The Pakistan Ministry of Internal Affairs began an investigation against the leadership of the airline BHOJA Airline, the owner of the Boeing -737 airliner, whose catastrophe carried away at least 127 people on Friday . According to the press Minister of Internal Affairs of the country Rechman Malik, the head of Bhoja Airline, Farooq Bhoja) is prohibited from leaving the country - his name was included in the "stoplist".

The Mufti of the Spiritual Directorate of the Muslims of Crimea (DUMK) Emirali Ablaev turned to the Crimean diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) with an appeal to stop sprinkling with water of the children of Muslims in kindergartens and schools of the region and read prayers over them, Rosbalt reports.

In the fifth match of the 1/8 finals of the Stanley Cup between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, which ended with the victory of Penguins with a score of 3: 2 a funny episode. The forward of Pittsburgh Yevgeny Malkin wanted to hold a forceful reception at the striker Flyerses Matt Ride, but instead “made up” his partner and captain of the team Sidney Crosby.

The President of the Israeli Football Federation Avi Luzon decided to cancel the matches of the two higher divisions of the Israeli championship this weekend and Monday. Such a decision was made after a mass fight in the central match of League Leumit (second division) between the Apoel teams (Ramat-Gan) and Bnei Lod on Friday. The decision to cancel the matches was made after consulting with the country's sports Minister Limor Livnat, Sport-Express reports.

In Japan, the investigation on the murder of 19-year-old Russians Anna Filimonova continues, which was brutally stabbed in an apartment in Iokogam. It is reported that the police found a murder weapon in the river nearby. There are details about the detainees in connection with the murder of two friends of Filimonova: they give strange and confused testimonies.

On Saturday in Omsk, the fifth game of the final KHL series was held between the local Vanguard and the Moscow Dynamo. The guests won a convincing victory over the Siberians with a score of 2: 3, retaining the intrigue in the struggle for the Gagarin Cup. The account in the series is now 3: 2 in favor of Omsk. Already in the first half, Mikhail Anisin and Yuri Babenko brought the "blue and white" forward (0: 2).

On the world's largest cruise ais, the Allure of the Seas, there was a fire in the machine department, said the operator of the Royal Caribbean Cruises vessel. A giant ship accommodating 5.4 thousand passengers was heading from St. Martin (Caribbean Islands) to the city of Fort Lleoddale (Florida) when a fire occurred.

Hackers from the Anonymous group blocked two official sites of Formula-1 car races in protest against violations, in their opinion, human rights in Bahrain, where the local stage of the Royal Racing began on Friday. The main site "Formula 1" was subjected to DDOS-Atak on the eve. As a result, the Internet page temporarily became inaccessible to users.