This is completely unbelievable, in every sense. First, that it could happen, and second, that the boy is going to be okay.

Whilst playing during the Holi festival, a six-year-old Indian boy fell on a 6ft rod. Not quite sure how he fell, but the rod went straight through either side of his stomach, in the direction that would make it very difficult to walk through doorways.

Doctors on the scene gave him some necessary first aid (don’t know what that means, but it probably involved saying “oh S*&$” in Hindi a couple of times) and then he was transferred to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (soon to receive a lot more funding due to their new “We Perform Miracles” add campaign)

There, doctors spent four hours removing the rod, to quote the BBC article:

The doctors said he had lost a lot of blood and suffered liver and stomach injuries but “nothing major” [Read more →]

I don’t know the how, or the when – but a village in eastern India banded together and rescued two elephants from drowning – using some sticks and some rope.

That is amazingly good news!

Watch the video:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7496694.stm

Good news for the publicity departments of scuba foundations around the world – two divers were rescued after a night off the Great Barrier Reef.

They got lost when they re-surfaced 200 yards from the dive boat. Eventually they were picked up 9 miles from their original location.

In order to stay alive they strapped themselves together with their weight belts, conserved energy and probably hoped that there would be a happy ending. Which there was, because only ending up with mild hypothermia is definitely considered okay.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7418279.stm