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An Indian baby born with two faces is doing well one month after her birth, doctors have said.

Lali was born with two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes - but only two ears.

The baby girl was born in the rural Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, 50km north east of New Delhi.

And while she may seem like an oddity to some, her proud parents, Vinod and Susham Singh from a village called Saini, think she is simply “a gift from God“. Excited villagers claim she is the reincarnation of the Indian God Ganesha and celebrated her arrival with clapping, cheering and offerings of gifts and money.

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A teenager from India who stands at a tiny 1ft 11in (58cm) tall is the smallest girl in the world. Jyoti Amge, 14, is shorter than the average two-year-old child and only weighs 11lb (5kg).

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Victim Chen Zongtao, 29, lives in a remote Chinese village and hasn’t been able to afford medical help.

The growth first started on his left foot when he was two years old. But it soon spread across to his right leg and engulfed it. Over the years, it has ballooned in size to weigh more than 70KG.

Doctors at the hospital in Changsha, central China’s Hunan province, have been probing the tumour this week. Zongtao is said to be suffering from neurofibroma - a usually-benign tumour originating in nerves.

It is not yet clear if medical teams plan to take action on the growth.

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A Chinese man recovers from surgery that removed part of his facial tumours, which weigh more than 20 kilogrammes in total.

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Hypermobility (also called double-jointedness, hypermobility syndrome or hyperlaxity) describes joints that stretch farther than is normal. For example, some hypermobile people can bend their thumbs backwards to their wrists, or bend their knee joints backwards. It can affect a single joint or multiple joints throughout the body.