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A video of surgery conducted on a teenager with a power drill by doctors who claimed their state-run hospital could not afford the medical equivalent has caused an outcry in the former Soviet republic of Moldova.

一段醫生宣稱因為國營醫院負擔不起同等級醫療設備，只好用電鑽替青少年執行手術的影片，在前蘇聯共和國摩爾多瓦引起輿論譁然。

Nikolai Kurka, the surgeon who performed the surgery later posted on the Internet and broadcast on Moldovan television, said he was one of 16 doctors who used home improvement tools in the absence of adequate equipment.

A Long Island school district has released a summer reading list riddled with spelling errors.

（美國紐約州）長島的一個學區發放一份拼字錯誤百出的暑期閱讀書單。

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" is misspelled as "The Great Gypsy." And author Emily Bronte is listed as Emily Bonte.

South Korea has switched on a road which can recharge electric vehicles as they drive over it. The project’s developer says the 12km （7.5 miles） route is the first of its kind in the world.

南韓一條可為行駛在上的電動車充電的道路，現在已經開啟電源。開發商說，這條12公里的道路是全球同類型首見。

It means vehicles fitted with compatible equipment do not need to stop to recharge and can also be fitted with smaller than normal batteries. Two public buses are already using the technology and there are plans to add 10 more by 2015.

Crop-damaging insects, bacteria, fungus and viruses are moving poleward by nearly three kilometres each year, helped by global warming, a study has said.

作物害蟲、細菌、真菌與病毒在全球暖化助長下，每年朝南北兩極推進近3公里，一份研究指出。

A team at Britain’s University of Exeter trawled through two huge databases to chart the latitude and dates for the earliest record of 612 crop pests.