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SOUTH AFRICA: A 50-year-old woke up in a body bag after his family found him unconscious and thought he had passed away.

The man who spent about 21 hours on a corpse trolley, had had a severe asthma attack, reports The Sun.

He started screaming upon waking up and scared the lives out of the mortuary staff, who thought he was a ghost and fled from the scene. The man was freed later.
 
Boy born with 34 fingers and toes

INDIA: This one-year-old boy broke a world record when he was born with 34 fingers and toes. However, Akshat Saxena did not have any thumb, reports Daily Mail.

The toddler had seven fingers on each hand and 10 toes on each foot, according to a spokesman for Guinness World Records.

The condition is known as polydactyly, a genetic disorder which can be inherited and gives rise to excess digits.

The child, from northern India, has faced a series of surgeries to get rid of the excess toes and fingers. Meanwhile, doctors are also working to reconstruct thumbs out of the digits they have removed.
 
Couple stage own kidnapping

SINGAPORE: A couple, fresh out of college, decided to stage their own kidnapping and demand a ransom from the girl's father. The two were a law graduate and her Nigerian boyfriend, both in their 20s, reports asiaone.com.

The boyfriend called up the girl's father, pretending to be a kidnapper and demanding $500,000 for their release.

The pair were holed up in luxury hotels in Langkawi and Penang while the police were scrambling to rescue them. The plan failed when the police followed a clue and found them in a hotel in Penang. Duo were arrested after they admitted that they wanted the money to go abroad. 
 
Alexander McQueen leaves $75k to his pet dogs in his will

BRITAIN: In his suicide note, the British fashion designer Alexander McQueen told family to "take care of my dogs". The designer committed suicide in 2010. He left $74,805 of his $24 million fortune to his beloved pet dogs.

McQueen wanted to ensure his dogs were pampered after he was gone, reported NewsCore.

The will, released after a request from Britain's Press Association news agency, said £50,000 was being left "for the upkeep and maintenance of my dog or dogs so long as my dog or dogs shall live".

He left behind three dogs named Minter, Juice and Callum, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.

McQueen allegedly wrote a suicide note asking his family to "look after my dogs" before he hanged himself in his central London flat after taking a cocktail of drugs the day before his mother's funeral.
 
Maharaja's tiger hunting Rolls could fetch $1m

INDIA: Auction house Bonhams will put under the hammer a rare Rolls Royce Phantom modified for tiger hunting by an Indian maharaja during the days of the British Raj, featuring a mounted machine gun and a cannon, that may fetch up to $1 million (Dh3.67 million).

The custom-made 1925 Rolls Royce was originally commissioned by Umed Singh II, the maharaja of Kotah in the 1920s at a time when tiger hunting was hugely popular in India.

The flaming red vehicle, with a convertible canvas roof and bespoke hunting features including a double-barrelled shotgun, spotlights for night hunting and a mountable Lantaka cannon, is expected to fetch up to $1 million when it goes on the block in mid-August in Carmel, California.

"It was quite common, most of the maharajahs had specialised customised cars manufactured in the United States and they even had gilted frames and all sorts of things," said Pran Nevile, a writer and expert on India's colonial era known as the British Raj.

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