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This 3D-printed bionic arm is the first of its kind developed in Russia and may be set to revolutionize the world of prosthetics. Engineer and amputee Maxim Lyashko lost his right arm in an accident in 2013. He then started to wonder how to create a high-tech bionic prosthesis that was both functional and affordable. This desire led him to create the MAXBIONIC, an Iron-Man style arm that allows users to move the fingers with their mind.
Hundreds of people gather at Paris' Trocadero as French lawmakers are expected to anchor the right to abortion in the country's constitution, a world first that has garnered overwhelming public support. IMAGES
A Russian court is set to make a ruling in an "extremism" case against the political network of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as Moscow seeks to outlaw the opposition to President Vladimir Putin. The closed court hearing is part of a sweeping crackdown on Putin's most prominent critic and his supporters after Navalny barely survived a poisoning with the Novichok nerve agent last summer. IMAGES
Hundreds of Guatemalans burn down the Congress building to protest the approval of the 2021 budget, the highest in the country's history, and demand the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei for endorsing it. IMAGES