A nail which has been removed from a man’s kidney, where it had been for 20 years, at the Henan Provincial Coal General Hospital in Zhengzhou, central China’s Henan province.

Gao, 41, was sent to hospital for emergency treatment after passing out. CAT scans showed that Gao had a metal object in his left kidney.

Doctors had to remove part of Gao’s left kidney to get rid of the 12cm long, 0.2cm in diameter nail, as the rusty nail has contaminated it.

The nail got into his body 20 years ago when Gao had an accident when he worked as a home decorator.

“A nail flew at me and cut an opening on my belly, he says. “I just simply sterilized the wound and it healed up itself.”

Doctor explained a membrane formed around the nail over time which prevented the nail from penetrating even deeper, but over the years the deeply implanted nail caused Gao to have hydronephrosis and high blood pressure.

Gao is now recovering from the surgery in the hospital.

Conjoined twins Emma and Taylor Bailey strike a pose at home in Phoenix, Arizona.

The Bailey twins share a heart and a liver, when they were born they were only expected to live for 15 minutes.

Doctors told the couple, who have six children, that their lungs would rush their heart from the moment they took their first breath and it would kill them. But the girls survived and are now three-years-old.

The girls are fused from their breastbone to their bellybutton, but despite being fused together, they’re developing their own personalities.

Their mother Mandy says: “Emma prefers to look at books and do puzzles, and Taylor would rather have a stuffed toy and play with building blocks. They are developing funny adorable little traits, for example Emma is picky, and Taylor will eat anything.”

But the Bailey family face a terrible dilemma, as the girls get bigger there is more strain on their heart, but separating then would almost certainly result in death for one of the two.

That said, their parents say separation won’t be considered unless both the girls will survive and be healthy.

Xiang Jun, 26, of Dongguan, Guangdong province, danced and walked on the high voltage cables for four hours before finally jumping down to a giant air cushion.

Friends said he had been drinking and had been angry about recently losing his job.

“He was invited to a lunch, and drank a lot, and then he climbed onto the tower,” said one friend.

Firefighters arrived within five minutes of him climbing a mast and getting on to the cables — but could not talk him down.

Instead they ordered power to be cut off — so he could not electrocute himself — and arranged for the air cushion to be brought in.

“We had to hold the safety cushion underneath him and keep walking with him all the time as he could have fallen at any moment,” said one fireman.

Doctor Yuan, at WanJiang Hospital where Xiang was taken afterwards, said he was unhurt but was suspected of suffering from depression.

Police are still investigating the incident and it is not yet known whether Xiang will face charges.

The stunt was inspired by last year’s award-winning commercial for Sony TVs, set in San Francisco, which used 250 000 balls.

This time around it was part of a promotion for the Brighton and Hove Children’s Festival, which starts in April.

The children were rewarded with as many free balls as they could gather and a free ice cream.

Skyaker Miles Daisher gives the thumbs up as he “skyaks” out of an aeroplane over Florida.

Danger man Daisher casts a bizarre image paddling across the sky — 13,000 feet up in a kayak!

The daredevil has turned extreme sport skydiving on its head after deciding to jump out of a plane in equipment normally used only in water — giving birth to “skyaking.”

His barmy spin on the risky hobby means anyone looking up will draw a blank when they ask: “Is it a bird? Is it a plane?”

But the answer will become clear when crazy Miles swoops in at 50 mph and lands on the water in spectacular fashion.

The unbelievable antics of the 40-year-old, from Twin Falls, Idaho, are set to explode onto the worldwide silver screen in a sensational new 3D film on skydiving, base jumping, wingsuit flying and skyaking.

Tang Baihu, a white tiger at Yancheng Zoo, strikes a pose in Changzou, eastern China’s Jiangsu province, China.

The zoo is trying to find Tang a Mrs. Right before mating season in the spring.

Tang accidentally killed his wife, Meng Ya, also a white tiger, in October 2008 during a failed mating session.

According to Xu Yihai, a spokesman for the zoo, “He cornered his wife, forcing her to mate with him, but got refused. Unexpectedly he roared and bit his wife on the back.”

Meng Ya died soon after being rescued out due to spine and nerve damage.

The white tiger is an endagered species — only around 200 tigers exist, scattered in a few countries, like America, India, Britain, and China, so the zoo has launched a worldwide campaign to find Tang a wife.

Check out a picture of Earth showing the entire North American continent, Central America, the northern half of South America, Greenland and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Researchers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre have released the clearest and most complete image of Planet Earth ever seen.

Compiled by imagery from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imagining Spectroradiometer (MODIS), which is onboard the satellite Terra, the crystal clear view of our home planet was taken from 700 km above the Earth’s surface.

Pieced together using thousands of images observed from the Terra satellite, this representation of our home planet is the most detailed image ever produced.

Showing the entire North American continent, Central America, the northern half of South America, Greenland and the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the NASA image captures the fragility of the Earth in one perfect shot.

And while we humans are welcome to enjoy authentic Thai massages on every beach and street corner, even the animals are getting in on the act.

This cute picture were taken at the Chaloklum Elephant Trekking Centre, where the owners’ 3-month-old pet macaque monkey took time out of being mischievous to groom the local ginger tom cat and rid it of any pesky fleas or parasites.

And far from being annoyed by all this attention from his primate pal, the cat was happy to lie back and enjoy the pampering.

However, after a while the cheeky monkey became a bit frisky and got a little carried away: the grooming soon became a little too intimate as the young macaque’s hormones got the better of him…

Nevertheless, the cat took it like a man and soon the happy pair were relaxing together again side-by-side in the shade.

Artist Mark Evans is known for his incredible leather etchings and his increasing fame has led to an amazing commision.

He has been asked by a Russian billionaire to create what will be the world’s most expensive wallpaper.

At $23 700 per sq meter the project will cost a total of $2.84 million for Mark to wallpaper two rooms in the billionaire’s huge house in Moscow.

A woman in China is seeking assistance in order to help her nicotine-addicted pet dog quit smoking.

According to Mrs. Li of Beijing her cocker spaniel Treasure is addicted to smoking. “She needs at least two cigarettes a day,” she comments. “I have to light one in the ash tray and let her stay beside it to suck the smoke.”

Treasure also loves cigarette butts. “She eats all the butts, swallows down the tobacco and then spit out the rest,” says Mrs Li.