Russian authorities are in possession of a skull fragment that they persistently claim to have belonged to nazi Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler. And despite the fact that scientists say the skull is really that of a woman, the Russians keenly insist that the scientists are wrong and that the skull really belonged to the feared mass murderer. Why on Earth is it so important then for Russians to own this “Hitler’s skull”?

A team at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Medical Center have managed for the first time in the world to separate platelets and adult stem cells from the blood and bone marrow of patients with fractures and inject them – causing the bones to meld in a quarter to third of the time it usually takes to repair bones, and repairing some breaks that without the therapy would fail to heal at all, Jerusalem Post reports.
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A man has been arrested for the murder 13 years ago of the hospital worker Melanie Hall, whose bones were found dumped beside a motorway this week, The Times reports.
Greater Manchester Police said that a 37-year-old man had presented himself at Cheadle Heath police station in the early hours of yesterday morning. “He was arrested on suspicion of murder on behalf of Avon and Somerset Police and remains in custody,” the force said.
Miss Hall, who was …

A bag containing suspected human bones was found today on a motorway slip road, the Daily Mail reports.
A motorway workman was clearing vegetation on the slip road at junction 14 on the M5 North, north of Bristol, when he made the grisly discovery.
A police spokesman said officers and forensic teams had been sent to investigate at the exit for Thornbury, in South Gloucestershire. A single lane on the slip road has been closed while police carry …