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Born in the Shahabad Community Health Center in Uttar Pradesh, India, on July 2, the baby weighed in at 6.5 lbs, and appears to have an extra pair of both arms and legs growing out of its torso. The newborn has been celebrated as a “miracle of nature” as news of the unique birth spread across the local area, according to The Independent. Some have even suggested that the infant may be a reincarnation of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi, who is depicted as having multiple limbs, and is the goddess of wealth, fortune, power, beauty, fertility and prosperity....

Police responded to a call at 3:45 p.m. to reports that several people were unconscious. Authorities said six adults and an infant were found at the North Range Crossings Apartments on East 104th Avenue, along with “illicit narcotics.” A four-month-old infant and an adult were found alive in the apartment and were both transported to a nearby hospital, police said. “While they thought that most of them were unconscious, one of the parties was awake and was transported by medical,” Commerce City Police Chief Clint Nichols said....

“While the majority of us were sleeping, Sergeant Mackesy, Deputy Lopez and Deputy Wheeler responded to a call early this morning from a security guard at a hotel on St. Pete Beach concerning sea turtle hatchlings that had gotten very lost while making their maiden voyage out to the ocean,” read the caption of the video, which was posted on August 2 on the department’s Facebook page. With the help of officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), officers rounded up the turtles and released them on a beach....

Based on the Back 4 Blood footage shown so far, Turtle Rock Studios seem to be firmly picking up where it left off with Left 4 Dead. The new game looks set to engage players in similar multiplayer zombie shootouts, just like its predecessor. Also like Left 4 Dead, Back 4 Blood will have several playable protagonists known as Cleaners. Cleaners are people who are immune to the disease that has turned people into the Ridden, the zombie-like antagonists....

According to Steam DB, which is a website that monitors player and game statistics, as well as announces rumors about upcoming Steam sales, Turtle Rock Studios’ Back 4 Blood is doing remarkably well, with a concurrent player count on Steam peaking at 53,327 as of this article going live. That number seems to be going up as the days move on, but it has already smashed the all-time peak count for Left 4 Dead, which achieved 30,616 in total around 13 years ago....

In a recent conversation on Discord, Turtle Rock co-founder Chris Ashton was asked whether Back 4 Blood will be getting a game mode that was popular in the L4D franchise. Specifically, fans were wondering whether the game would have a Versus Campaign mode added to it. Ashton did say that the team had no plans to add this feature, adding that the game was simply not built for that mode....

The end of communism was supposed to put a stop to the KGB’s dirty tricks at home. After the KGB joined the abortive coup in 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev broke up the agency. The foreign-intelligence division continued to run spies, and domestic counterintelligence was renamed the Ministry of Security. The department of ideological counterintelligence was abolished. But last October, when a former security minister joined the putsch against Boris Yeltsin, and the Ministry of Security hesitated to defend the president, it became clear that the KGB was still a problematic power....

On ‘A River Runs Through It’: “I have lived in this ‘hole at the bottom of America’ for 23 years and find it stunning, not bleak. Violence is not the rule here—unlike much of urban America, where I wouldn’t dare even leave my truck unlocked.” Bryn Moore, Terlingua, Texas Is Food Really the Enemy? Two of my three kids have multiple allergies (“Fear and Allergies in the Lunchroom,” Nov. 5)....

According to Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select, an unnamed superstar pitched the idea of having Ali eliminate them from the Royal Rumble and it was up to the latter if he was interested. However, Ali not only declined to be in the Rumble but also requested his release from the company once again. It was also reported that the real reason Ali wasn’t released was because the company sees “value” in him....

84% of women with BV do not have symptoms. When symptoms are present, the most common is a strong “fishy” vaginal odor and an increase in vaginal discharge. Metronidazole (such as the brand Flagyl) is an antibiotic used to treat bacterial vaginosis. This article reviews the basics of metronidazole, dosage, side effects, effectiveness, other medications for BV, and more. Metronidazole for Bacterial Vaginosis Metronidazole is considered the first line of treatment for BV....

According to a statement from the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Bankman-Fried was arrested “without incident” at his luxury apartment in Nassau around 6 p.m. Police said he was apprehended in “reference to various Financial Offense against laws of the United States, which are also offenses against laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.” Bahamas Attorney General Ryan Pinder also released a statement on Bankman-Fried’s arrest, saying that once an extradition request is made by the United States, his country “intends to process it promptly....

CBP officials separated Kaytora Paul, 12, from her godmother at Miami International Airport on Sunday night shortly after the pair escaped from Abaco island amid Hurricane Dorian, according to the Miami Herald. When Kaytora and her godmother landed in West Palm Beach from Nassau, officials transferred them to Miami International Airport, where they were subsequently separated because they were not biologically related, according to the girl’s mother, Katty Paul....

Bahrain vowed on Sunday to take “appropriate” security measures for its Formula One race, as thousands of demonstrators kept up daily protests. Bahrain “will ensure that appropriate security measures are taken during the F1 race and will take enough measures as in all other countries which host such international sporting events,” government spokeswoman Samir Rajab said. “The security situation in Bahrain is very reassuring,” she said, quoted by state news agency BNA....

In the third quarter of the Browns-Patriots matchup, the Cleveland passer took a big hit from Patriots defender Matthew Judon, which would knock him out of the game. Mayfield walked off the field and entered the blue medical tent to speak with Cleveland trainers, would later exit the tent, and patrol the sidelines and speak with other teammates afterward. Case Keenum replaced the injured QB. On Monday, Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski revealed that Mayfield would be day-to-day with the injury and should return to the field this weekend....

It even featured a cameo from a live bald eagle soaring through the crowd midway through the anthem. The eagle got some of the loudest cheers of the night so far. MORE: Must-see photos | Duke’s awesome hype video | Kaminsky responds to Harrison’s remark A second angle, because who doesn’t like majestic birds soaring through a dome?

Half-man, half-spider, Baldur’s Gate’s Driders come straight from Dungeons and Dragons’ monsters codex. Appearing all the way back in D&D’s first edition, Driders have been a staple of the game from the offset, and they’ve been present throughout the Baldur’s Gate franchise. Baldur’s Gate 3 is no exception to the rule, with at least one Drider appearing in the latest trailer, and for those that don’t know, Driders aren’t the type of beasts that players should mess with....

It has already been revealed that a good number of Dungeons & Dragons video games are either being planned or are currently in the works, to be released in the years following Baldur’s Gate 3. Not only will BG3 almost certainly influence their creation, but it could very well redefine roleplaying games as a genre, just as its predecessors, Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn, did before....

Two-time grand slam winner Azarenka outlasted top seed Angelique Kerber 6-4 4-6 6-1 in a thriller final-four showdown at the Monterrey Open on Saturday. Not since March 2016 had Azarenka – plagued by off-court and fitness issues – featured in a singles final but the fifth seed changed that against Kerber. “It’s quite incredible. I’m very pleased with the way I played today. It was an important match to see how I could do under pressure against a top player,” Azarenka said....

At the very least, Halloween will look much different for most people this year, and that’s not even in regards to costumes. What does Halloween even mean during the age of COVID-19? Will kids be trick-or-treating? Will adults gather for parties? Well, we imagine some people won’t be able to resist the urge to put on a silly, awesome or inappropriate costume—even if it’s just for a Zoom hangout....