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Doctors are trying to do their best to save the hands of 15-year-old boy Andrey Sherbakov, a native of the city of Perm in Russia’s Ural region. The boy miraculously survived the 1.300-kilometer flight inside a wing of Boeing-737 jetliner. Surgeons will probably have to amputate the boy’s both hands because of gangrene which started developing as a result of severe frostbite.

A tiny key from the binoculars store that might have helped prevent Titanic sinking was sold at auction for GBP 90,000 on Saturday, BBC reported. The key, with the tag “Crows Nest Telephone Titanic” was not on the ship when it sailed from Southampton to start the deadly voyage in 1912.

Bacteria flown to space can sense the change in the environment and mutate to become more virulent, a team of US researchers has shown. Salmonella bacteria flown on a 12-day mission last year have displayed changes in 167 genes and were three times as likely to kill infected mice compared to normal bacteria.

Socialite Paris Hilton will not be allowed to join the festive mood of the Oktoberfest in Munich this year, because the Hilton heiress was banned from visiting it. EonLine reports the “official” reason is that she “cheapened” the festival last year, but rumours have it that the real reason is that she showed up last year in a dirndl dress and braids, as part of an advertising campaign for canned wine.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt want to expand their “rainbow” family by adopting a child from Burma. The couple have enlisted the help of one of the country’s leading monks to plan a trip to an orphanage.

Hundreds of people in Peru fell ill after an object from space - said to be a meteorite - plummeted to Earth in a remote area, BBC reported. Peru officials say the object left a deep crater after crashing down over the weekend near the town of Carancas in the Andes.

A British woman who married a son of Osama bin Laden says the couple are divorcing because of opposition from his family, The Sun newspaper reported Wednesday. Jane Felix-Browne, a 51-year-old grandmother from Moulton, a village in northwestern England, married Omar bin Laden, 27, in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia in April.