KADAVU ISLAND: Scientists have discovered a new flowering plant belonging to the scarce Medinilla group on Fiji's Kadavu island, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said.
Scientists find new plant in Fiji
An unemployed Irish artist has built a home from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros ($1.82 billion), a monument to the "madness" he says has been wrought on Ireland by the single currency, from a spectacular construction boom to a wrenching bust.
A home of shredded Euro notes
The team set out to investigate the effects of global climate change deep in the ice covered Antarctic continent say they have discovered a surprising system of rivers beneath the frozen surface.
Scientists discover river running under Antarctica’s ice
The 29-year-old has his own website where he appears in nude and semi-nude positions and he’s even posed for these pics to become a calendar boy.
Obese man who weighs 38 stone poses naked for calendar
Learning that newcomer act Lightspeed Champion takes inspiration from a comic strip drawn by a teenager in his math textbook–and that the group’s new album, Falling Off the Lavender Bridge (Domino, 2008), shares a few things in common with indie-rock act Bright Eyes–was little surprise. When Lightspeed took the stage Sunday night during the “Weirdly Wired” party–consponsored by film site Indie Wired, among others, and held at the famed Austin City Limits TV studio in Austin, Texas–said influences stood out right like glow-in-the-dark Star Wars stickers on a teenage geek’s bedroom ceiling.
The gig was my first at South By Southwest 2008. The music portion of the festivities don’t officially kick in until Wednesday, but this is Austin, where new indie bands flow like water. It was also part of the SXSW film festival, which began a few days ago and, like the music portion, is infused with indie spirit.
Weirdly Wired
Bush Tucker man, east your heart out.
Thailand’s Scorpion Queen has set a new world record – by holding a poisonous scorpion in her mouth for more than two minutes.
Woman holds record for holding arachnid in her mouth
The truck appeared to be defying gravity as it dangled 100ft above the ground in Chengdu, reports the Tianfu Morning Post.
A LORRY driver had a miraculous escape in China after an accident left his cab hanging precariously over the edge of a flyover.
Margaret Delfino may be a 90-year-old great-grandmother, but that doesn’t stop her from hauling out the big guns when it comes to blood donations.
90 year old becomes 25 gallon blood giver
A granny was jailed for 13 years today after being found guilty of smuggling £1 million worth of cocaine into the country in her mobility vehicle.
Grandmother arrested for mobility scooter drug bust
Russian villager wrongly buys Kalashnikov weapon store
A baby believed to be the third smallest birth-weight infant ever to survive left hospital in Los Angeles on Friday, doctors and the proud parents said.
Third smallest child ever leaves US hospital
HOUSTON: An 'escaped 8ft tiger' spotted on a hotel roof in Houston, Texas, turned out to be huge stuffed toy.
Firefighters called over fake tiger on roof
Between 2008 and 2010, licenses were granted to 281 children aged 11 and under — including one as young as seven. Five licenses were granted to eight-year-olds, 25 to those aged nine, and 92 to ten-year-olds. Another 158 licenses were given to children aged 11.
London Shotgun licenses issued to children
Dante Atolls remained conscious later than the self-inflicted injury and initially believed he had only brushed his nail gun against his head.
Lucky man lives later than nail shot into head
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