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Wrestling icon Kamala is recovering in hospital after his leg was amputated due to health complications.

The retired sportsman, real name James Harris, recently underwent surgery to remove one of his limbs as a result of issues with diabetes and high blood pressure, according to reports.

However, the 61 year old, whose nickname was the Ugandan Giant, has posted a video online assuring fans he is doing well.

In the short clip, he says, "Hello wrestling fans! You probably don't recognise me but this is the Ugandan Giant Kamala. I know y'all ain't (sic) used to seeing me in the hospital, in a hospital bed, but I am in the hospital.

"A few bad things happened to me but I'm blessed I'm alive... I only lost my leg, not my life."...

When President-elect Barack Obama urged Americans to embrace of a new spirit of community service, Usher took that message to heart. The pop star pumped up grade-schoolers and other volunteers with handshakes, jokes and words of praise as they repainted walls and built two libraries at Simon Elementary School in southeast D.C. – an area with a high dropout rate – on the afternoon of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. During a feed to Oprah Winfrey's live show from the Kennedy Center Opera House, the singer talked up the need for volunteerism – even working in a reference to Aristotle – before cuing the kids to yell,...