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Gaza amputees tackle new challenge on the football pitch

In fluorescent orange jerseys, footballers manoeuvred across the artificial turf of a pitch in the Gaza Strip -- leaning on their metal crutches for...

In Iraq minefields, an old war leaves a menacing legacy

Hundreds of villagers have lost limbs to mines and unexploded ordnance from the Iraq-Iran war, including the village better known as al Bitran which means “the amputees” in the local dialect.

Computer games relieve phantom limb pain: study

PARIS: Amputees who played computer games using a virtual, on-screen arm, experienced relief from the phantom pain that often afflicts people who have lost...

French amputee surfs again in ‘revenge’ on shark

SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ, FRANCE:  After losing his left leg in a shark attack in 2011, avid surfer Eric Dargent wasted little time rueing his misfortune, setting out to get his "revenge".

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