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<B>-Peru.</B>
Doctor performs brain surgery with store drill. Lacking the proper instruments, a Peruvian doctor at a state hospital in the Andean highlands used a drill and pliers to perform brain surgery on a man who had been injured in a fight, the doctor said. ?We have no neurosurgical instruments at the hospital. He was dying, so I had no choice but to run to a hardware store to buy a drill and use the pliers that I fix my car with, of course after sterilizing them,? Cesar Venero told Reuters in a telephone interview. The patient is Centeno Quispe, 47.
?I drilled holes in his skull in a circle, leaving spaces of 5 millimeters, took out the bone with the pliers and removed the clots that were putting pressure on his brain,? he said. Venero, who earns $430 a month, said he had used tools from a hardware store on five previous occasions but for less serious operations. Quispe was making a good recovery.
<B>-England. .</B>
Not just the music pulls crowds at ?Lustonbury?. No wonder this year?s Glastonbury Festival was billed the best ever, almost 25,000 people said they had sex while also enjoying the music at Britain?s biggest open-air music event. A frisky 22 per cent of the 112,000-strong crowd had sex during the three-day festival, a survey by music magazine NME showed. The magazine said 71,000 festival-goers saw others naked at the site. Three-quarters of those questioned thought the infamous toilets were ?like a cesspit.?
<B>-Korea..</B>
Mosquitoes to find mobile rings annoying too. South Korea?s top mobile phone operator is offering a new service that allows cellphone users to download a sound it says repels troublesome mosquitoes. The sound should be capable of clearing the insects within a range of one meter. Mosquitoes are a common irritant during the hot, humid summers in Korea. Subscribers are able to download the sound, which cost $2.54, via the firm?s wireless Internet service.
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