An Indian holy man who claimed his right leg had magical powers has had the limb amputated and stolen by thieves. Yanadi Kondaiah, 80, always insisted that his leg could grant wishes to anyone who touched it. Police say this may explain why two strangers recently arrived in Kondaiah’s village, plied him with liquor, hacked off his leg with a sickle, and made off with it. “I have always been good to others,” a distraught Kondaiah said. “Why has this been done to me?”
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are still very, very attracted to each other, Holmes tells In Style magazine. Holmes, 28, reports that Cruise, 45, her husband of just over one year, is particularly partial to the sight of her in business attire. “I like it when he likes it,” she says. “It makes me blush!” Holmes, for her part, says she gets excited watching Cruise pursue his latest hobby: flying planes. “He knows what he’s doing,” Holmes says. “It’s hot.”
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