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A Russian woman gave birth by the light of dozens of mobile phones after a power cut plunged a town into darkness.
Emergency generators kicked in to keep incubators going at the local maternity ward at Shelehov in northern Russia.
But the room where Rima Pivovarova, 22, was giving birth was plunged into darkness just as doctors started to try and sort out complications with the delivery.
Quick-thinking nurses borrowed mobile phones from colleagues and other patients and used their light as they delivered the baby.
Nurse Nadezhda Stempkovskaya, who helped deliver the baby, said both mother and

A Russian mugger stole a woman's cake as she walked by, then asked the victim to call police so he could go back to prison, Russian media reported Tuesday.
A police spokeswoman in Krasnoyarsk, 4400 km (2700 miles) east of Moscow, said the motives for the crime were unclear, but that when police arrived on the scene the attacker told them he just wanted to return to jail, Russian agency RIA reported.
After checking the arrested man's documents, police learned the mugger had recently served out a 12-year sentence, the spokeswoman said. Charges carrying a potential jail sentence of three years were brought against the cake thief.

Tomorrow is my mum's sixty fifth birthday. She phoned me up yesterday to say that her and my dad and brother are going to meet me in town tomorrow and we'll have a meal at one of the restaurants; nothing too fancy or expensive, we all like simple food - the restaurant will need to offer a range of options to cope with my mum's coeliac disease though.