Based on the draft of toy car, Zhang Jin-duo, a farmer from Shenyang City, spent two months in building his own 'F1' car. The 3-meter-long vehicle can reach a speed of 65 km/h without any problem! link
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An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness Monster watchers say is among the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature reputed to swim beneath the waters of Scotland's most mysterious lake.Links: CNN | Xinhua"I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this jet black thing, about 45-feet (15 meters) long, moving fairly fast in the water," said Gordon Holmes, the 55-year-old a lab technician from Shipley, Yorkshire, who took the video this past Saturday.
He said it moved at about 6 mph (10 kph) and kept a fairly straight course.
"My initial thought is it could be a very big eel, they have serpent-like features and they may explain all the sightings in Loch Ness over the years."
Holmes' footage is of such good quality that even the normally reticent BBC Scotland aired the video on its main news program on Tuesday.
Lindsay Lohan suffers from multiple addictions to alcohol and drugs, including the powerful painkiller OxyContin, the 20-year-old actress' estranged father told E! Online on Wednesday.Links: Chinaview |Picture: Hollywood Hot
"I spoke to the people treating Lindsay, because I wanted to make sure she was getting the right care," said Michael Lohan. "And I'm satisfied they are doing the right thing for her, helping her detox from the painkillers and things. That's a very important step."
Old Lohan also wanted to make sure Lindsay would be getting religious counseling.
"And I learned they use the 12-step program," Michael said, "which includes a lot of lessons based on God's teachings, so I was satisfied with that. First she needs to get clean, then she needs to let God into her life."
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Even after Chinese authorities turned down two of requests, French 'Spiderman' Alain Robert still decided to climb China's (world's fourth) tallest Shanghai Jin Mao Tower.
On Thursday clad in a Spiderman costume, the 44-year-old made a barehanded ascent and descent of the 88-storey iron-and-glass structure, achieving the feat in 90 minutes.
But his feet had barely touched the ground, Chinese police immediately arrested him.
Now what is waiting for him is a custody of 15 days in a Chinese jail.
Robert has scaled the most tallest buildings in the world including Taipei 101, Empire State Building, Paris's Eiffel Tower.
Links WP & Xinhua
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On May 31, an employee of Japanese electronics giant Sanyo shows world's first fully waterproof camcorder--Xacti--in an electronic exhibition in Tokyo. This video camera can record the footage at a water depth of 1.5 meters without the watertight shell. On the coming June 15, Sanyo will officially put the camcorder on the market for sale to the consumers with a price tag of 60,000 Yen or around 470USD. Source:Xinhua
A set of photos show a lavish village wedding ceremony held in Yingkou, Northeast China's Liaoning province. According to the original post on Xinhua BBS, it attractsed numerous TV stations including China's Central Television Station. Unluckily, the post didn't provide any information on the background of either groom Wang Hao or bride Li Dan . Truly speaking, this is the most luxury village wedding I ever see in China.
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Japan always has abundant child stars, especially young girl stars. There those girl stars have a special name U15, who normally made a debut at an age of 9 to 10 years old. They often pose in bikinis and other provocative clothing for photo spreads in magazines aimed largely at men. However, they do not pose nude or perform sexually explicit acts in the work. Other than Mao Kobayashi, below are some more:
Riho Iida, born on October 26, 1991
Mirai Shida, born on May 10, 1993 
Maki Horikita, born on October 6, 1988
Azusa Hibino, born on July 26, 1990
Yuzuki Hoshino, born on December 23, 1995
Yuri Kojima, born on November 23, 1990
Tsugumi Shinohara, born on March 10, 1993
Takaou Ayatsuki , born on October 23, 1990
Saaya Irie, born on November 15, 1993
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Five-year-old male panda Xiang Xiang who last year became the first to be released into the wild after being bred in captivity in Sichua Wolong Giant Panda Research Center, has died, Xinhua news agency said today.
The body of Xiang Xiang was found February 19 on snow-covered ground in the forests of Sichuan province in China's southwest, but not report until May 31.
The long delay in announcing Xiang Xiang's death was attributed to the need for a full investigation.
He survived less than a year in the wild after nearly three years of training in survival techniques and defense tactics.
Photo below shows that Xiang Xiang, whose name means Auspicious, is being anaesthetized for a health checkup the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Research Center on April 27, 2006.
Source: Xinhua | Sh-daily
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Customers queue to buy bottled water at a supermarket in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu Province, May 30, 2007. Local residents in Wuxi rushed to buy bottled water when the tap water developed a strange smell. The blue-green algae outbreak in Taihu Lake [China's third largest freshwater lake] affected the underground water in Wuxi and caused the water crisis.Oh my god! Almost all of our relatives, friends in China are living in Wuxi and now we really begin to concern their health. Links: photo 1, 3, 4, 2
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Dharavi in Mumbai is Asia's largest slum area. Authorities in India's financial capital invited a global tender on May 30 to tear down Asia's biggest slum and replace it with gleaming new apartments, but the project is suspect in the eyes of most of it inhabitants. The number of people living in slums in India, Asia's fourth largest economy, has more than doubled in the past two decades, the government recently said. Source: Reuters
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Sweden has become the first country to open an embassy in the virtual world Second Life.More photos on Sweden.se
Created to promote The Nordic state's image and culture, the embassy does not offer any real or virtual consular services but provides information on its real world counterparts.
The opening of the embassy was attended online by Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, in the form of an avatar, and at a real life press conference in Stockholm.
The embassy also includes a room dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg, who helped save thousands of Jews in World War II. It recreates his office in Budapest, where he worked as a diplomat and issued Swedish passports to Hungarian Jews to help them escape the Nazis.
Norway is the most peaceful country in the world and Iraq the least, according to a study launched.
New Zealand ranks second and Australia is 25th on the list, which notably puts Japan near the top and Russia and Israel close to the bottom.
The Global Peace Index, published a week before a Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany, rates 121 countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe on factors including levels of violence, organised crime and military expenditure.
While most European countries including Britain rank in the top, more peaceful, half of the league table, the United States is nearer the bottom in 96th place, while Russia is fifth from last on 118th.
The index is backed by international figures including the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former US president Jimmy Carter and US economist Joseph Stiglitz, all winners of the Nobel peace prize. It is also supported by Queen Noor of Jordan.
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Later she was more shocked and embarrassed than hurt, after blocking the entrance to an underground station when she mistook it for a subterranean car park.
The 52-year-old drove her Volkswagen Beetle across the pavement and into the entrance, where it came to a halt five steps down.Source: BBC
Police estimated the damage to the station at around 1,500 euros (£1,000).
The VW Beetle-Cabrio remained balanced on the fifth step and the woman was able to get out unaided and unharmed.
The accident happened in the Nordstrasse underground station, in the centre of Dusseldorf.
A bathtub made of gold, worth 120m yen ($1m; £500,000), has disappeared from a Japanese resort hotel in circumstances that remain unclear, police said.Source: BBC
Staff reported the tub was missing on Wednesday at the Kominato Hotel Mikazuki, a resort overlooking the Pacific Ocean, east of Tokyo.
Police said they had no idea how it was stolen, saying they had found no sign it was dragged on the floor.
The tub weighed 80kg (175lb) and was made of 18-carat gold.
It was normally chained to the door and padlocked when the room was closed, Japanese TV reported.
A similar tub in the women's shared bathroom is still in place, the police spokesman said.
Kevin Cazabon submitted this weird playground signboard to Alex Papadimoulis of Worse Than Failure with the narration reading:
"Having moved overseas to Belgium a few years ago, from time to time I'm reminded that good, effective icon design is an artform best left to the true professionals. This is especially true when you consider that your software may be used across the world, and what may seem like common sense to you may befuddle a Belgian... or the other way around.Link
"Although the below image is not a computer icon, I think it illustrates the point rather clearly. Either I missed out on a lot as a kid, or the playgrounds here in Belgium are a LOT more fun than the ones back home. This is a picture that I took personally of an actual playground sign in a small suburb outside of Brussels.
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Stuntwoman Shi Hong-yan from Anhui wowed her audience by playing 100 hula Hoops simultaneously at the Second Zhuge Liang Cultural ang Tourism Festival in Yinan, Shandong Province. Zhuge Liang [wiki] (181 - 234), born at present-day Yinan County, was one of the greatest Chinese strategists of the Three Kingdoms statesman, as well as engineer, scholar, and inventor. His name (or even just his surname) has become synonymous with intelligence and wit in Chinese culture. Source: Shangdu
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Two horses pull a Buick sedan [a product of Shanghai GM, a 50-50 joint venture partnership between General Motors and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. Group] to the site of an automobile fair in Puyang, Henan Province, May 28, 2007. The car's owner said it had many problems, but the dealer refused to refund his money. The owner decided to publicize the case by hauling the car to the fair. A much better way than to smash the car which happened years ago in China.
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The video, shot by a student at a Beijing school a week ago, shows a boy sporting an earring approach his teacher and slam the man's hat down over his face before returning to his seat.Warn! the students also used very rude Chinese language to insult the nearly 70 year-old teacher Sun Xin-mao who later said when interviewed, "Students are like teachers' children. How can we do anything to our children? I'm not defending these students, but teachers are responsible for not educating students well. It's my way to educate students by not doing anything to them because they have apologized to me." Links:BreitBart | Chinadaily| Yutube
Later another boy threw a plastic bottle at the teacher as students in the classroom burst out laughing.
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A number of 10 unique rocks were recently excavated when workers were digging out the mud at a construction site of gangue in the Huanggu Township of Jiangxi Province’s Shaorao County, China. The shape of each stones weighing around 300~400 kilograms is just like that of the UFO described in the sci-fi, which attracts a lot villagers to have a look. Link
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On May 29 afternoon, a 3-year-old boy named Yang Yang defied the cool water by jumping into the pool to happily swim together with a beluga whale at the Animal Performance Area of Qingdao Polar Region Ocean World [where doctors once did the first ever suergery on another afflicted whale in China]. His parents taught him to learn swimming when he was only 1 year old. Since then, he seldom stops swimming, even in the winter he still practises his skills in the sea. Now the toddler has already done very well in diving, breaststroke and butterfly stroke. It’s his dream to be friends with those marine animals.
Link: QQ Update: more photos at Chinadaily
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It is said that such divine discovery-- 'Allah' and 'Mohammed'-- written in Arabic script among the intestines of the cow which had been slaughtered ahead of a wedding party had attracted more attention than the newlyweds. Salmah Nayan, why not you provide the picture(s) to testify what she said was true? I am eager to see it. link
Retired Japanese teacher Katsusuke Yanagisawa scaled the 8,850m (29,035ft) Himalayan peak on May 22,, breaking the record previously set by his country man Takao Arayama in May 2006 and becoming world's oldest climber to reach Qomolangma.
He was 71 years, 2 months and 2 days old when he reached the summit of Mountain Everest while Arayama was 70 years, 7 months and 13 days old.
Mr. Yanagisawa climbed the China's Tibetan side of the peak with a team including New Zealanders and Japanese. Source: theStar
Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho's 13.76 million Hong Kong dollars (or US$1.76M) offer is a gilt-incised brown lacquered throne once used by Emperor of Kangxi. link to Breitbart via
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Booed mercilessly at the Miss Universe pageant by a Mexican audience angry at U.S. immigration policy, and seen by millions of TV viewers as she slipped and fell on the pageant stage, Miss USA Rachel Smith nonetheless managed to take the high road and offer her Spanish-speaking hosts an enthusiastic.At last, 20-year-old dancer Riyo Mori,Miss Japan 2007, crowned Miss Universe 2007 title, making herself the second Japanese after Akiko Kojima of Miss Universe 1959 won the world beauty title.
Smith, 22, from Clarksville, Tenn., who was crowned Miss USA last March, was continuously jeered by the mostly Mexican audience during the pageant's interview phase.
Pageant owner Donald Trump downplayed the booing, saying it was aimed at American policies and not Smith.
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A Daguerreotype camera built in 1839 by Susse Freres of France, deemed as world's oldest camera, was auctioned off by an anonymous online bidder for nearly US$800,000, which makes it the world's most expensive camera.
The ancestor camera of modern photography, which was found in an attic in Germany by a professor, is made of soft wood and weighs between 11 and 13 pounds. Link
From Wikipedia
The ballot text reads "Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Empire that was enacted on 13 March 1938, and do you vote for the party of our leader Adolf Hitler?," the large circle is labeled "Yes," the smaller "No."
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Forget chart-topping hits, Britney Spears is quickly clocking up a record number of fashion faux pas.
The latest in a very long list of missteps came after the singer her stopped off for a swim in LA - her soaked bikinis left embarrassing wet patches on her aqua blue sun dress.
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Nature guide Arthur Du Mosch, 49, holds a wild leopard as park rangers arrive at the scene, in his bedroom in a small community near Sde Boker in southern Israel, Monday, May 28, 2007.
Du Mosch was fast asleep early Monday, his family and pet cat dozing beside him, when the leopard hopped into his bed.
Leopards in Israel pose no threat to people and, in fact, this leopard, who was looking for food, was chasing Du Mosch's cat and not the humans sleeping in the bed, an expert said, and added that the leopard was very weak when captured. Souce: Xinhua | Picture: BBC
The bright day suddenly turned into dark night in the afternoon of May 29 in downtown Rizhao in eastern Shandong Province.
At the local time of 5:38pm a band of light was clearly marked between the ground and the sky.
People were amazed by the spectacle which lasted for several minutes. Source: Cri
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Indian scientists found a new species of limbless lizard which is said to belong to the genus Sepsophis in the forested area of Khandadhar near Raurkela in Orissa state, about 1125 kilometers southeast of New Delhi. Days ago we had a post on a glass lizard which was also limbless but found in China's Jiangsu Province, I don't understand why scientist claimed "It is not found anywhere else in the world", though I do agree that their newly-found Indian lizard is an important discovery. Source: SFgate via Sn
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Gao An-ni (高安妮), an 8-year-old girl from the rural countryside in An Yuan county in East China's Jiangxi Province, suffers from a tumor in her underlip. An-ni was born with a tumor in her underlip, and she couldn't receive timely treatment for the poverty. On May 28, her father took her to see doctors at the Hospital affiliated with Gannan Medical College. But when doctors there told him that the operation to cure the tumor and the following cosmetic surgery might cost a lot for the family, the father decided to bring back his daughter to their hometown. I am wondering why China, with the world's most prosperous foreign reserve, would not set up a welfare foundation for those suffering grave illness in the poor family.
Previously, RC has a post on an 'alien' boy who was also born in Jiangxi.
Source: People's Daily | More photos at Newsphoto
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Princes William and Harry are said to be "devastated" at a decision by Britain's Channel Four to show a picture of their dying mother.At the same time, someone also dugg the money from the death of Prince Diana by selling the Trust Tracker bike which was used by the Princess of Wales when she lived in Althorp in the 1970s.The station will screen it as part of a documentary, Diana: The Witnesses in the Tunnel, which will air in Britain on Wednesday, June 6, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Princess's death.
The picture shows Diana slumped in the back of a black Mercedes following the tragic car accident in a French underpass. It shows a doctor attempting to place an oxygen mask over her face.
The Princes attacked the publication of the photograph in Italian magazine Chi last year, saying they were "deeply saddened that such a low has been reached".
They begged other media outlets not to follow suit.
Clarence House has said in a statement: "They have made their position on this very clear. They want their mother to be allowed to rest in peace."
Despite this, Channel Four has decided to press ahead with the use of the
photograph, claiming it is important evidence as to whether the paparazzi played a role in the Princess's death. Source: SMH
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Suhas Gopinath from Bangolore is now 21. He has been in charge of his own software company for seven years since he founded Globals Inc. at the age of 14 years in the year 2000 at San Jose, California, USA. . The company now has 400 employees and branches in 11 countries. The photograph on his desk shows him meeting Indian President Abdul Kalam. The IT talent was selected as one of Youth Icons for the year 2006 by Times of India of Times Group. links 1, 2, 3, 4 BBC video interview
A gay pub in the city of Melbourne has won the right to ban heterosexuals - the first time such legislation has been passed in Australia.
The Victorian state civil and administrative tribunal ruled the Peel Hotel could ban patrons based on their sexual orientation.
The pub's management said the move would stop groups of heterosexual men and women abusing gay people.
Mr. Zhang's daughter bought this rare golden soft-shell turtle for 70 yuan from a web market in Chuzhou, Anhui Province. The female wild turtle weighs at 200g and now grabs alot of attractions from the neighbors. link
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The 2.008-meter-high shadow puppet in the image of Guan Yu (160-219), a celebrated Chinese military general during the late Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period is the highest one of its kind in China.
The Chinese Shadow Play Museum in Beijing's Xuanwu District has decided to apply for the Guinness World Record.
The Shadow play is one of the oldest genres of drama in China. It came into being during the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - A.D. 220) and has a more than two thousand years history. Chinese Shadow is a dramatic form using lanterns to project shadows onto the screen. link
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The 60th Cannes film festival, which ended on Sunday, May 28, awarded a Palme d'Or for lifetime achievement to veteran US actress and activist Jane Fonda over the weekend.The exceptional Golden Palm prize, awarded by festival chief Gilles Jacob, had only been awarded three times before since 1946, to French directors Alain Resnais and Gerard Oury and the French actress Jeanne Moreau.
Jacob presented the surprise honour at a dinner after a screening of Sidney Lumet's classic 12 Angry Men as a tribute to her late father Henry, who died in 1982.
"I never imagined that the Cannes film festival would honour a person who was spied on and tracked by the FBI, a person who has a 20 000-page file," Jacob noted with a touch of irony, referring to her campaign against the Vietnam war, and later the US invasion of Iraq.
But she possibably felt somewhat embarrassed during the closing ceremony when she was seen wearing the exact same dressing (picture above)as the one that Anne Consigny wore some days earlier in the festival. links: 24.com | Qianlong
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The birdman competition was held on Saturday [May 26] in Zhengzhou University in the capital city of central China's Henan Province.
Twenty teams composed of students from the University took part in the competition with various self-made "flying machines".
A daring birdman even tied feather dusters to his arms and attempted to fly. However, he remained in the air for only one and half seconds before falling into the water.
At last, a competitor who reached a distance of eight meters won the Birdman Title. Links Cri | Sina
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Endangered, hunted, smuggled and now abandoned, 5,000 of the world's rarest animals have been found drifting in a deserted boat near the coast of China.The pangolins, Asian giant turtles and lizards were crushed inside crates on a rickety wooden vessel that had lost engine power off Qingzhou island in the southern province of Guangdong. Most were alive, though the cargo also contained 21 bear paws [left pic)]wrapped in newspaper.
According to conservation groups, the haul was discovered on one of the world's most lucrative and destructive smuggling routes: from the threatened jungles of south-east Asia to the restaurant tables of southern China.
The animals were found when local fishermen noticed a strange smell emanating from the vessel, which did not have any registration plates, on Tuesday, the Guangzhou Daily reported.
When coastguard officials boarded the 25-metre craft, it was reportedly deserted and stripped of identification papers. They found more than 200 crates full of animals, many so dehydrated in the tropical sun that they were close to death.
The animals - which weighed 13 tonnes - were taken to port, doused with water and sent to an animal welfare centre. "We have received some animals," said an office worker at the Guangdong Wild Animal Protection Centre. "We are waiting to hear from the authorities what we should do with them."
According to the local media, the cargo included 31 pangolins, 44 leatherback turtles, 2,720 monitor lizards, 1,130 Brazilian turtles as well as the bear paws. Photographs showed other animals, including an Asian giant turtle.
All of these south-east Asian species are critically endangered, banned from international trade and yet openly sold in restaurants and markets in China's southern province of Guangdong, which is famous for its exotic cuisine.
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A giant mushroom was found in Mudanjiang city, in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province on May 26, 2007. The mushroom weighs 2 kilograms and is 51 centimeters long and 30 centimeters high. link
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Can you imagine? Behind the label of a product there is actually nothing but a content person buying an empty bottle.Source: CRIThis is because they are buying something for their soul, not their body.
FLOWmarket, or "soul supermarket", opened in Shanghai last Thursday. Its intangible commodities, such as "1/4L of Unconditional Love" and "200ml of Clean Air", packed in aesthetically designed empty containers with humorous and thought-provoking labels, are attracting many consumers.
43 different kinds of commodities are available in the store, including "No Junk Mail" and "Renewable Energy". Some were specially engineered for the Chinese market, such as "Serve the People". Prices range from 10 to 100 yuan, or around $1.2 to 12 US dollars.
The first consumers came just five minutes after the store opened. One female, white-collar worker bought two bottles of "Pause" and one bottle of "8-Hours Sleep", costing 60 yuan, or about $7.5 US dollars.
Danish artist Mads Hagstrom, the designer of the commodities, said his creations aim to inspire consumers to think, live and consume more holistically.
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After he climbed the 8848-meter summit of Nepals' Mountain Everest on May 22, Canadian senior Werner Berger has become the oldest North American to reach all seven of the world's highest summits.
Mr. Berger, who spends most of his time in Yardley, Pennsylvania, was emotionally overwhelmed by his achievement.Source: CTV
"There really aren't any words to describe it," Berger told CTV's Canada AM.
"The most spectacular part was standing on the top summit and looking across the traverse... and then seeing the summit approximately an hour away and knowing...that I was going to stand on top of the world. It was an unbelievable experience."
While 70-year-old Yuichiro Miura of Japan is the oldest man to scale Everest, Berger is the oldest man to climb the highest peaks on seven continents.
Er, the stripper in I Know Who Killed Me didn't learn any lesson from Paris Hilton.
Mean Girls star Lindsay Lohan has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after she crashed her sports car into a curb.What's the worse for Lohan is that cocaine found in her car.
The accident happened at 05:30 local time on Saturday when the 20-year-old actress, under the legal drinking age in the US, and two other passengers in her 2005 Mercedes SL-65 hit a curb on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills.
Lohan was then taken in another car to hospital where she was treated for minor injuries. Police in Beverly Hills followed the actress to the hospital and arrested her on suspicion of driving under the influence.
Police released Lohan but she is expected to appear before a judge on August 24th and could face criminal charges.
In a press conference, Lieutenant Mitch McCann of the Beverly Hills police department told reporters that officers also found a "useable amount" of a drug hesitantly identified as cocaine but did not say where it was found – just that it was "not on her person".Source: inthenews
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With construction started in August 2003, the Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, dubbed as "Water Drop", has been completed in the end of 2006. But not until the night of May 25, it was tested run with the illumination for the first time, which turns out quite successful.
The stadium is expected to become a unique sports landscape circled by several man-made lakes with around 10,000 square meters of water area.
Covering a floor area of 78,000 square meters and with a seating capacity of 60,000, the stadium includes a huge indoor parking lot, an exhibition hall, dining room, health center, and many rooms for both athletes and referees.
The stadium is going to host 12 soccer preliminary games during the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. Source: Xh | Pd | Bocog
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Chen Yan (陈燕), a 51-year-old woman [from Sichuan's Jianghan City], waves to crowds while impersonating China's late Chairman Mao Zedong, during a photocall in Mianyang, Sichuan province May 26, 2007. Chen, who stands at 1.55 meters has to wear a pair of specially designed shoes to increase her height to 1.80 meters to imitate Mao. She was discovered by a beautician while impersonating Mao on a local TV show.
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On May 20, staffs of Zhuhai Park in Jiangsu Province's Yixing City found a rare animal which resembes a cross between rice field eel and snake besides a hill road in the park. It measured 40 cm long and weighted at 95 gram. Later the snake-like animal was determined to be rare Chinese glass lizard by experts from the School of Biological Sciences in Nanjing Normal University, a species on the Protected Endangered Chinese Wildlife Animal List. Now the reptile has been released to the bamboo forest of Zhuhai Park. link
P.s. Glass Lizard in Wikipedia:
The Glass Lizards or glass snakes, genus Ophisaurus, are a group of reptiles that resemble snakes, but are actually lizards. Although most species have no legs, their head shape and the fact that they have movable eyelids and external ear openings make it obvious that they are lizards. These animals are also known as Glass Snakes or Jointed Snakes. They reach lengths of up to 4 ft, but approximately two-thirds of this is the tail. Glass lizards feed mainly on insects.
Their common name comes from the fact that they are easily broken: like many lizards, they have the ability to deter predation by dropping off part of the tail which can break into several pieces, like glass. The tail remains mobile, while the lizard becomes motionless, distracting the predator, and allowing eventual escape. This serious loss of body mass requires a considerable effort to replace, and the new tail is usually smaller in size than the original.
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Zongzi or rice dumplings, are displayed on model handcarts pushed by clay men during the Zongzi Culture Festival held in Huzhou of East China's Zhejiang Province May 26, 2007. Zongzi is a traditional Chinese snack eaten on China's Dragon Boat Festival or Duan Wu following in June every year to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period, a well-loved patriot poet committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River of Hunan. link
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Pang Yu-liang, chairman of the board of LinkGlobal Logistics Co Ltd, beat 10 other global competitors, including FedEx, Hamburg Airport, and Emirates Airline, in an international tender to buy Parchim Airport in Germany at a cost of 1 billion yuan (US$130 million).
It is said to be the first time a Chinese company has wholly owned an European airport, which is located in Schwerin, not far from Hamburg and Berlin.
According to the deal, LinkGlobal has 100 percentproperty rights to Parchim Airport and its facilities, as well as permanent ownership of land in an economic cooperation zone affiliated to the airport.
The purchase will help Pang further expand the logistics network of LinkGlobal, a Beijing-based company. It has a network covering more than 200 cities in China and about 90 countries worldwide.
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A water spout, a huge funnel-shaped cloud, that builds due to differential pressure between the surface of the sea and the atmosphere were seen at sea several hundred metres south of the coast of Singapore on May 25, 2007. It moved across ships but had no impact on shipping. link
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A central China farmer has been jailed for 13 years after being convicted on two charges of illegally purchasing and selling state-protected swans and their meat.Links to the picture | Xinhua report
Zhang Yuelin, 48, from Henan Province, was also fined 50,000 yuan ($6,500).
The court heard that in October and November last year, Zhang repeatedly went to Puzhou Township in north China's Shanxi Province and bought 38 dead swans and one kilogram of swan down from Zhao Naishun, a resident of Puzhou, and another fisherman who was identified only by the surname Chen.
On his return, Zhang plucked the dead swans and hid them in the backyard of his house. He later sold 37 of the carcases, receiving 3,000 yuan.
The court concluded Zhang, who knew swans were listed for state protection, broke the law by illegally purchasing and selling more than 10 of the birds.
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Full-time blogger Jhidekin tells what he did behind the scenes at the ButternutJelly.com . A bit funny!
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Jiao Na and her husband Niu Jian-fang beat China's one-child policy by having quintuplets.
"What's your secret?" I ask them.
Niu Jian Fang stares ahead. Jiao Na laughs nervously.
"Difficult to say," she answers.
No-one here in Buffalo village [of Henan Province] wants to say it openly, but privately families admit they use fertility drugs [e.g. clomifene citrate capsules] to get round the one-child limit.
One woman says her parents-in-law put the drugs into her food to make sure she would conceive twins.
Because of the fertility drugs, this village has more twins on one single street than you would expect to find in the entire village.
Just down the road from the quintuplets' house, there is Lou Yuan Mei and her two-year-old twins, Lin Kai and Lin Da, dressed in identical orange jumpsuits.
A few doors down, Wu Xiaofang is happy to pick up and show off her baby twins, Jiao Jiao and Fei Fan.
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11-year-old Alabama boy Jamison Stone used a Smith & Wesson customized .50 caliber revolver to kill a wild Feral hog that just may be the biggest pig ever found.
The monster hog weighed a 1,051 pounds and measured 10-feet-7 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.
Jamison shot the huge animal eight times with the pistol and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot.
With the pig finally dead in a creek bed on the 2,500-acre Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve in Delta, trees had to be cut down and a backhoe brought in to bring Jamison's prize out of the woods. Link to Monsterpig | Fox
Update: The biggest monster pig was not a wild hog as claimed earlier by some medias, but a fed hog once had been raised on an Alabama farm and was sold to the Lost Creek Plantation just four days before it was shot. From Guardian
Phil Blissitt told The Anniston Star in a story Friday that he bought the 6-week-old pig in December 2004 as a Christmas gift for his wife, Rhonda, and that they sold it after deciding to get rid of all the pigs at their farm.
``I just wanted the truth to be told. That wasn't a wild pig,'' Rhonda Blissitt said.
See more photos on Chinanews.
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Bun Scrambling Competition is an annual fun sport held on the Cheung Chau Island of Hong Kong in each year's May. Competitors are required to climb a tall bamboo tower studded with thousands of 'lucky buns' during this midnight mountaineering adventure and the one who, in three minutes, grabs the buns with the highest total score will be the winner.
The two-century-old bun-scrambling festival was once stopped 27 years starting from 1978 when more than 100 people were injured after one of the towers collapsed. It was only resumed in 2005. Links 1, 2, 3, 4
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A 27-year-old woman miraculously survived when her Proton Iswara plunged from the sixth floor of Mutiara Heights multi-storey car park in Jelutong, Penang, Malaysia.
Clerk Jenny Tan, who broke her left arm, was said to have been negotiating a sharp turn at her flat's car park at about 8.15am yesterday when she lost control of the vehicle and rammed it into a wall. The car landed on its top, with both the front and rear badly damaged.
Tan's 32-year-old husband, who declined to be named, said his wife could have accidentally stepped on the accelerator or the brakes might have failed.
The colorful puppy was spotted at a pet shop in Suzhou, China.
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Bird does to Bush what he has done to American people. Funny how the reporter refers to the bird shit as an "attack." I suggest we give Bush a purple heart for his bravery. Did the President just wipe off the shit with his hand? That's poor hygiene!
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In the race for ever thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all - a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
The display is being held up by a hand that's squeezing the 0.3 millimeter, or 0.01 inch, display, while showing color video.
The display combines Sony's organic thin film transistor, or TFT, technology, which is required to make flexible displays, with another kind of technology called organic electroluminescent display.
The latter technology is not as widespread for gadgets as the two main display technologies now on the market - liquid crystal displays and plasma display panels.
Although flat-panel TVs are getting slimmer, a display that's so thin it bends in a human hand marks a breakthrough.
From Chinadaily
A Chinese farmer collects rainfall water converged on a road in Huan County, Southnorth China's Gansu Province, May 22, 2007. The rainfall water after simple treatment will be used as the drinking water for the farmer's family. The Huan County suffered drought since September 2004 and there has been no effective rainfall for the past 32 months.
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Transgender politician Jenny Bailey has been sworn in as Britain's first transsexual mayor. The Liberal Democrat councilor has become the civic leader of Cambridge City Council.
Jenny Bailey, 45, underwent a sex change operation when she was in her 30s. Bailey was born a man and fathered two children aged 20 and 18.
Ms Bailey's mayoress is her partner, former councillor Jennifer Liddle, who also underwent a sex change.
Ms Bailey said she was honoured that her fellow councillors had chosen her to be mayor of Cambridge.
Council chief executive Rob Hammond said he was confident Ms Bailey will be a great ambassador for Cambridge.
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To test the link to children's scores on the College Board's Scholastic Assessment Test, Mark Brosnan [of the psychology department at England's University of Bath] and his associates made photocopies of children's palms and measured the length of their index and ring fingers using calipers accurate to 0.01 millimeters. They used the finger-length ratios as a proxy for the levels of testosterone and estrogen exposure.Source: Xinhua
The researchers then looked at boys' and girls' test performances separately and compared them to finger-length ratio measurements. They found a clear link between high prenatal testosterone exposure, indicated by the longer index finger compared to the ring finger, and higher scores on the math SAT.
Similarly, they found higher literacy SAT scores for the girls among those who had lower prenatal testosterone exposure, as indicated by a shorter ring finger compared with the index finger.
The researchers also compared the finger-lengths ratios to all the children's SAT scores and found a relatively longer ring finger -- indicating greater prenatal exposure to testosterone --meant a wider gap in scores for math versus literacy (writing and critical reading).
Frieda Birnbaum, a 60-year-old psychologist, gave birth to twin boys by Caesarean section on May 22 at Hackensack University Medical Center of New Jersey, being the America's oldest mother of twins. Birnbaum, underwent in-vitro fertilization last year at a South African clinic that specializes in older women.
She and her husband, Ken, a New York City attorney, have been married for 38 years and also have three other children — sons ages 33 and 6 and a daughter, 29. Source:USAToday
Poet Su Fei-shii was selling his poems by weight at a stall in Beijing, arousing much curiosity among the passers-by. Chinese in the picture reads that he has one ton [1000kg] of poem pamphlets which sold about a half kg at 100 yuan. Earlier this month, the man was dubbed as "Nude Poet" as earlier this month he naked himself while selling the poems. link
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A 70-meter-high giant thermometer recently has been installed outside a building in the downtown of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. Now it's so convenient for people there to know the temperature without referring to the weather report. link
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The surrogate cat mother nurses a puppy near the town of Mamurras, 50 km from Tirana, the captial city of Albania. The cat, which had lost her kitten, started caring for the puppies after their mother was killed by a car. link
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For their safety, it is strongly advised the Vietnamese people to wear a protective helmet while driving the motorcycle, in case ...... link
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Hu Xi-lin (胡锡林), dubbed as Flies-catching King, was seen here counting the weight of flies on May 22 that he caught this year. These disinfected flies can been preserved for long time.
Hu owns a private business which specializes in developing technologies to catch mosquitoes, flies and cockroaches in Linshan Township of Zhejiang Province's Yuyao City. In the past ten years, he has caught more than 13,000,000 flies. Source: Xinhua
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Farmer Wang from North China's Jilin Province was trampled to death under the hoofs of his cow because he was blocking the animal as it was rushing to mate with an ox. His family will be paid 3,000 yuan / US$392 as compensation by the ox owner.
The two animals were first arranged to mate together on Monday morning but failed.Source: Sd & Cswb
The two owners decided to give the animals another chance. When the cow which was in heat, saw the ox again in the afternoon, she suddenly became agitated and tried to rush forward.
The animal broke its leash, knocked down Wang and stamped across his body, the report said. Wang dies on the spot with hoof prints on his body.
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Grandpa Zhang Shu-qing, who turned 100 on May 7, contributed his longevity to smoking every day and drinking liquor after every meal, which possibly couldn't be agreed by others.
Zhang senior [living in Pixian, Sichuan] said he started smoking and drinking strong liquor when he was in his early 20s. Since then, he has smoked every day and taken a drink with every meal.Source: Chinadaily | Picutre: QQ
According to his grandson Xu, Zhang has consumed 15 tons of liquor and more than a ton of tobacco in his lifetime.
Zhang, who is in good health, has a huge appetite, with a standard meal comprising two chicken legs, a bowl of steamed pork fat and glutinous rice, vegetables and fruit. And he eats the lot in less than 20 minutes.
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After almost a week of training a group of dedicated skydivers put together the largest parachute formation ever built. It consists of 81 skydivers in the formation and several video people flying around. It took place over Lake Wales Florida USA just before sunset and has some incredible shots by some incredible video fliers, and a picture-perfect "starburst" break-away.Link
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This scene, from Michael Moore's upcoming film 'SICKO,' is the first to be released to date. The film, which is an assault on the insurance industry in the U.S., is set to be released in June.
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A 2.2-ton-heavy jade bowl decorated with pattern of nine-dragons was on display in Tongzhou District of Beijing. It is the biggest jade bowl ever, with a diameter of 2.2 m. The previous biggest jade bowl is the Dushan Jade Bowl in Beihai Park in Beijing, made in 1265. Shang Wenzhong, the famous sculptor, designed and made the new biggest jade bowl, with the Nine Dragon Wall in the Forbidden City as a major source of inspiration.Source: CRI
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An autosomal dominant disorder caused many members of a family in Chongqing of China suffer a rare condition that fingers are fused together. link
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The Cutty Sark, a surviving 19th century tea clipper and a major London tourist attraction was seriously damaged by a (possibly deliberate) fire when undergoing a £25m or US$49million restoration.
Built in 1869 by the Scott and Linton firm in Dumbarton, western Scotland, the Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be launched.
Notable performances included 360 nautical miles in 24 hours, or an average of 15 knots, the best speed for any ship of its size, and racing back from Shanghai to London in 122 days.
As the tea trade was later taken over by steamers using the Suez Canal route, the Cutty Sark turned to general trading and transporting wool from Australia, which included one exceptional passage of 67 days.
It was put into dry dock in Greenwich in 1954. Link | An aerial image showing the extent of the damage
The strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was much wetter than it is now has been unearthed by NASA's Spirit rover.Source: Space.com
A patch of Martian soil kicked up and analyzed by Spirit appears to be rich in silica, which suggests it would have required water to produce.
This discovery came about unexpectedly as the result of a mechanical failure.
Both Spirit and its twin rover Opportunity completed their original three-month missions in April 2004, and are aging. One of Spirit's six wheels no longer rotates, gouging a deep impression as it drags through soil. That scraping has exposed several patches of bright soil, leading to some of Spirit's biggest discoveries in its Gusev Crater exploration site, including the most recent find.
One possible origin for the silica may have been interaction of soil with acid vapors produced by volcanic activity in the presence of water, though the material could also have formed in water in a hot spring environment, NASA said in a statement. The latest discovery adds compelling new evidence for ancient conditions that might have been favorable for life.
Someone took a ride aboard the roller coaster at Kaeson Youth Funfair, Pyongyang, North Korea. I didn't find anything special but just curious that how Kim Jong Il brought this entertainment facility to the world's most closed country. link
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Twin brothers Raymon (L) and Richard Miller are the father and uncle to a 3-year-old little girl. The problem is, they don't know which is which. Or who is who.
The identical Missouri twins say they were unknowingly having sex with the same woman. And according to the woman's testimony, she had sex with each man on the same day. Within hours of each other.
When the woman in question, Holly Marie Adams, got pregnant, she named Raymon the father, but he contested and demanded a paternity test, bringing his own brother Richard to court.
But a paternity test in this case could not help. The test showed that both brothers have over a 99.9 percent probability of being the daddy— and neither one wants to pay the child support. The result of the test has not only brought to light the limits of DNA evidence, it has also led to a three-year legal battle, a Miller family feud and a little girl who may never know who her real father is.
Continue to read the full story at ABC, which is the most interesting thing I even saw happened to the twins.
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Despite the injury, Abdul is still expected to appear on the Idol show on Tuesday and the season finale between Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis on Wednesday.
Source: AP | National Ledger"She's a little sore, but is doing fine," he [publicist David Brokaw] said.
Abdul told the syndicated entertainment TV show "Extra" she tore cartilage in her nose and fractured her toe.
"I took a nasty fall ... trying not to hurt my dog. I bruised myself on my arm ... my chest, my waist all the way down to my hip. All from my little chubby Tulip," Abdul said.
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The Topsy-Turvy Bus (”Topsy”) is two school buses welded together, one upside down on top of the other, that is currently touring the country to “dramatically depict America’s upside down budget priorities”. The bus was created by mega art car artist Tom Kennedy in Oakland with a team of 10 artists, who have a background working on art car and Burning Man projects.Source: Laughing Squid
Dressed in a rock-n-roll bustier and short shorts, the 25-year-old pop princess hit up the stores and sun beds of the Magic City ahead of her comeback concert at Mansion nightclub.Britney accessorized her look with a pair of shades, sparkly sandals and a metallic handbag. She even wore a newsboy cap to cover up her roots and show off her extensions.
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Dia Boleh! A datoship is now waiting for her.
Marina Ahmad, 25, an assistant producer with RTM [Malaysia National Railway Co.], became the first Malaysian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest yesterday.Source: theStar
She was the sole woman in the seven-member Merdeka de Everest 2007 expedition, which set out to conquer the world’s highest mountain standing at 8,848m above sea level.
Villagers in Kampung Padang [Kedah State of Malaysia ] gathered for the second time yesterday [May 21] to bury Nor Adawiyah, a baby girl who died after a premature birth.
Nor Adawiyah was born at about 11am on Sunday [May 20] at the hospital here but a doctor declared her to be stillborn.
Her father, Azmi Masiron, 26, took her home for burial services but her grandmother Che Su Ahmad, 65, saw the baby move as burial preparations were underway.
They rushed her back to the hospital and she was placed in an incubator. Eight hours later, she was again confirmed dead [and finally buried in a cemetery]. Source: theStar
A Chinese man living in Shenzhen was knocked into a coma by a falling quilt last month, and is now suffering from hemiplegia from a neck injury. The owner of the falling quilt is yet to find.
The victim, surnamed He, was on his way home from work at 4:30pm on April 15, when he was hit by a quilt which fell from a four-story residential building.Source: Sd
The owner of the quilt is unknown at this stage.
He was rushed to a nearby clinic by a friend and transferred to a hospital but when he woke up, he found he had difficulty in moving legs.
"Doctors said there is hope for my husband to be able to stand up again if we continue treatment," said He's wife. "But we have no income because I had to quit my job to take care of him around the clock."
"We cannot afford further debt as it now amounts to 100,000 yuan," his wife told the newspaper.
The building is on Daping Road of Buji area in central Shenzhen. Apartments in it have been leased out and no resident has come forward to claim the quilt.
He's wife told the newspaper that "though we didn't keep the quilt as a clue, we have narrowed down the identity of its owner after visiting the building several times."
"We will ask for help from local police if the person doesn't show up in the next few days," she said.
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Photos show a scene of Wucaitan (五彩滩), a geographic zone of variegated hillocks beside the Ertix River in contrast with luxuriant forests, located near Altay city of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As a wind-eroded Yardang landform, the beautiful landscape is of high value for tourism development. Source: Xinhua
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Indonesian fisherman Yustinus Lahama hooked a rare coelacanth off Sulawesi island near Bunaken National Marine Park, Indonesia. The coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-kanth) was believed to be extinct together with dinosaurs for 65 million years until one was found in 1938 off the east coast of South Africa
After what the four-foot, 110-pound fish was confirmed, this rare creature was taken to a quarantine pool where it only survives 17 hours and proud marine biologist Yustinus Lahama from Sam Ratulangi University had a chance to be snapped posing with his prize-catch.
The powerful predator only living deep and cold-sea environment is highly mobile with limb-like fins. It gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs. Source: CBS | DM
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When boarding an exclusive cruiser hosting distinguished guests in Cannes, Eva Cavalli, wife of Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, encountered an A-grade wardrobe malfunction--her white silky skirt fell down around her ankles. She couldn't get any more embarrassing than this! Source: Dailymail
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She was accused of lip-syncing during the 14-minute show. link
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His reigning time in Shanghai Shenhua Football Club during 1993-1998 still impressed me so much.
Yu Zhifei (郁知非), general manager of the Shanghai International Circuit, was accused of using public money to buy a house and of taking bribes.Source:BBC
The sackings were related to an inquiry into misuse of Shanghai's pension fund.
The scandal has already led to the sacking of Chen Liangyu [last september], who was the city's Communist Party secretary.
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StarCraft II is a sequel to the real-time strategy game StarCraft, announced on May 19, 2007, at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Seoul, South Korea. StarCraft II is being developed for concurrent release on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X. The game will feature the Havok physics engine, allowing "debris [to] roll down a ramp", as well as improved 3D graphics. Its lead designer is Dustin Browder.
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Professional stunt artists took participation by setting fires on their body in a performance during the 2007 Taurus World Stunt Awards at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles May 20, 2007. This year, action film icon Burt Reynolds, star of the blockbuster hit 300 Gerard Butler, and the "godmother of stunt women," Jeannie Epper were honored for their remarkable contributions to the world of action films (via). Source: Chinadaily 
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The super freighter 'Dreamlifter' aircraft, carrying the massive mid-body fuselage for the first Boeing 787 'Dreamliner,' taxis to the unloading area on Wednesday, May 16, 2007, in Everett, Wash. The tail of the specially designed 747 freighter swings open for huge payloads that are unloaded using one of the largest cargo loaders in the world. The Boeing factory needs one more major component, a central fuselage section from Charleston, S.C., before workers can begin to assemble the plane that is scheduled to roll out July 8
Ken Richmond can survive the impact that can kill most of others! Warn, don't try at your own courtyard.
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A Thai zookeeper hired by a south China zoo was mauled to death by a Bengal tiger which the victim looked after for six years.
The tiger leapt at the victim when he bent down to pick up a broom. A colleague rushed to the victim's rescue by poking the tiger with a pole.Source: 1 & 2
The victim, a 42-year-old Thai, died in hospital in Sanya on the tropical island province of Hainan yesterday after he was bitten in the leg and neck while cleaning the tiger's cage.
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An interesting watermelon competition was held in a village of Haikou in south China's island province Hainan on May 18, 2007. The village has witnessed a watermelon harvest. Many locals joyously brought the watermelons grown by themselves for the contest based on the appearance, weight, and taste. Oh, yeah, don't miss watermelon's greetings. Source: Chinanews
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This 2-hr-2-min-15-sec long footage explains how CIA pioneered, developed,manipulated prisoner abuse, sold drugs, changed regimes and killed millions of people world wide. via
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The 60-year-old chimpanzee called Fifi eats pieces of watermelon as a treat for her birthday at Sydney's Taronga Zoo in Sydney May 21, 2007. Fifi, who is believed to be one of the oldest chimpanzees in captivity, is the oldest member of the zoo's chimpanzee family which is recognised as one of the most successful breeding groups in the world. link
Two candidates in the northern Philippines who got the same number of votes in a local election have settled the issue of who won by tossing a coin.Source: BBC Picture: Codefun
Bryan Byrd Bellang and Benjamin Ngeteg tied for the last of eight council seats in Bontoc, a resort town some 280km (175 miles) north of Manila.
They agreed to the coin toss, set down in local election rules. Mr Bellang called heads and won the seat.
The new US Embassy in Baghdad will be the world's largest and most expensive foreign mission, though it may not be large enough or secure enough to cope with the chaos in Iraq.
The $592 million embassy occupies a chunk of prime real estate two-thirds the size of Washington's National Mall, with desk space for about 1,000 people behind high, blast-resistant walls. The compound is a symbol both of how much the United States has invested in Iraq and how the circumstances of its involvement are changing.
The 21-building complex on the Tigris River was envisioned three years ago partly as a headquarters for the democratic expansion in the Middle East that President Bush identified as the organizing principle for foreign policy in his second term.
The embassy is one of the few major projects the administration has undertaken in Iraq that is on schedule and within budget. Still, not all has gone according to plan.
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Spring hares are found locally in the semi-arid steppes and dry savannas of Kenya and Tanzania, as well as in southwestern Africa.
The peculiar springhare, which appears to be a cross between a kangaroo and a rabbit, has caused scientists much confusion. It was once grouped with jerboas (jumping rodents), then with porcupines, then with scaly-tailed squirrels, until finally it was allotted its own family. The springhare’s large back legs enable it to make gigantic leaps of 20 to 30 feet, using its long tail for balance.
The undated pictures here show a pair of spring hares resting in a Tokyo Zoo. Source: AWF | QQ
