A two-year-old girl who was born with four arms and four legs left a hospital in southern India today little more than a month after surgeons successfully removed her extra limbs.

The Indian girl born with four arms and legs made her first public appearance today since massive surgery to remove the extra limbs.

A TWO-YEAR-OLD Indian girl born with four arms and four legs regained consciousness yesterday, wiggled her toes and smiled at her parents, 48 hours after massive surgery removed the extra limbs, doctors said.

A gruelling, 24-hour-long operation to remove the extra limbs of a girl born with four arms and four legs was a spectacular success, leaving her in stable condition, doctors announced today.

DOCTORS began operating on Tuesday on a two-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs in an extensive surgery they hope will leave the girl with a normal body, a hospital official said.

Pratibha Patil has won the race to become Indian president, the election commission announced today.

India is expected to elect its first female president today in a poll marred by controversy and mudslinging.

Investigators have arrested two more suspects in connection with the July 11 bombings on the Mumbai commuter rail network that claimed more than 200 lives, a television report said today.

A bomb threat forced the evacuation of India’s Parliament in New Delhi today, but the all-clear was sounded after police using bomb-sniffing dogs failed to find any explosives.

A CALLER yesterday claimed that a little-known Islamic group in the Kashmir insurgency was behind terror bombings that killed at least 59 people at two crowded markets on Saturday in India’s capital.

At least 49 people were feared dead after a series of explosions shook New Delhi today.

Rescuers scouring flood-ravaged neighbourhoods and outlying villages found dozens of new bodies, pushing the death toll to 696 from record monsoon rains this week in western India, officials said today.

At least 15 people, including seven children, were killed in a stampede after rumours that a dam had burst spread through a shantytown in India, a top government official said today.

AT least 200 bodies have been recovered in western India after the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the country.

At least 87 people were killed in two days of crippling rains in India and another 130 were feared buried in landslides, according to authorities and news reports.

Rescuers saved all 354 passengers who were trapped for days in a train that had slowly filled with flood water to neck height, officials said today as raging monsoons coninued to submerge vast swathes of Indian countryside.

RESCUE workers pulled corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India yesterday as the government warned the death toll of almost 9,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country’s south would rise further.

MASSIVE tidal waves triggered by an Indonesian earthquake slammed into southern India yesterday, killing more than 2,000 people and sweeping away boats, homes and vehicles, officials said.