A woman from the UAE has woken after 27 years of being in a coma, having been unconscious since a traffic accident in 1991.
The then 32-year-old Munira Abdulla suffered a severe brain injury when the car in which she was travelling hit a bus.
Her son Omar, who was aged four at the time, has described her miraculous recovery to Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National, saying "I never gave up on her because I always had a feeling that one day she would wake up".
Munira was kept alive in various hospitals in the UAE before being transferred to London and then Germany for more treatment.
A year later Omar was involved in an argument in her hospital room, which seemed to provoke a response and three days later "I woke up to the sound of someone calling my name," he said.
think you've run a marathon? Well maybe not, if you're counting on the accuracy of your wrist-worn fitness tracker.
British consumer group Which? has released the results of tests it conducted on the devices, in which subjects wore them while running the equivalent of 42km on a treadmill.
The least reliable was the Garmin Vivosmart 4, which underestimated the distance by more than 16km, while the Apple Watch series 3 was out by 13% when it came to estimating distance travelled.
Garmin said its Vivosmart 4 did not have a GPS, recommending keen runners use its GPS-enabled Forerunner range.
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