The unnamed patient, from Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo Oblast, southern Russia, put the two-centimetre piece in her ear while playing as a child, but never told her parents and quickly forgot all about it.

Taxi drivers in cities across Russia struck this week in protest ... Local press outlets reported actions in Voronezh, Prokopyevsk, Surgut, Kaliningrad, Ufa, Yektaterinburg, Tyumen, and Moscow.