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Holding severed head in place, he defied death IANS AGRA: A 28-year-old carrier van driver's head nearly got chopped off in a road accident. Weeks later he is alive, thanks to sheer grit. His head almost severed, blood oozing and eyes popping out, Balram was in a dazed state when the accident took place on July 5 in Fatehabad in Uttar Pradesh. He, however, kept his head attached to his body with some cloth. When no one came to help him, he drove his own vehicle for 30 km to reach a nursing home in Agra. Doctors there found the...

Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Date: 2003-06-18 Headless Comets Survive Plunge Through Sun's Atmosphere A run through the jungle is too easy; for the ultimate reality show contest, try a race through the Sun's atmosphere, where two comets recently lost their heads. The tails from a pair of comets survived a close encounter with the Sun, even after the Sun's intense heat and radiation vaporized their heads (nuclei and coma), an extremely rare event photographed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. On May 24, 2003, a pair of comets arced in tandem towards the Sun, their paths taking...

Afghan men fight to hold a headless calf in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 29, 2002, during a buzkashi game between the teams of Panjshir and Parwan provinces. Buzkashi is a sport in which horseriders try to carry the beheaded body of an animal around a flag and into a circle. The game was banned during Taliban rule in Afghanistan, but has come back since the new interim government took office in December 2001. On Monday, Defense Minister Qasim Fahim presided over this game marking the 10th anniversaryof the end of communist rule. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)