LONDON - British surgeons removed a teenager's stomach to save her life after she drank a cocktail made with liquid nitrogen during a night out with friends. Gaby Scanlon, 18, was rushed to a hospital in Lancaster where she was diagnosed with a perforated stomach. She is now in a serious but stable condition. The bar which served the drink has stopped selling all liquid nitrogen drinks. Reuters
RIO DE JANEIRO - Riding a wave of support from Rio's slums, Eduardo Paes was re-elected mayor and now takes up the challenge of overseeing major infrastructure projects ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Paes, who got 64.6 per cent of the vote, easily defeated his ultra-leftist rival, Marcelo Freixo. "We are going to work together over the next four years," said the incumbent, whose party is a member of President Dilma Rousseff's ruling coalition. AFP
MOSCOW - Russian investigators summoned an opposition leader for questioning amid claims he planned to overthrow President Vladimir Putin. State-controlled NTV showed a smear film that said Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement, was backed by a Georgian lawmaker and former Bank of Moscow president Andrei Borodin, who is exiled in Britain. AFP