Octopus predicts Real will reach Champions final

Octopus Iker (YouTube)BENALMADENA, Spain (AFP) - An octopus named Iker, which correctly predicted the result of the last two "classicos" between Real Madrid and Barcelona, has foreseen Real will reach the final of the Champions League.Iker predicted Real would reach the final at London's Wembley arena on May28 by choosing to eat a sardine from a glass cylinder decorated with the club's badge inste

April 27, 2011

British chief mouser finally shows progress

(MCT)The cat in charge of catching mice at the British prime minister’s office finally caught its first prey, according to British reports.When Larry took office as chief mouser two months ago, he consistently failed to catch any mice, preferring spending time hanging around corridors.Staff finally trained Larry with imitations of mice, which eventually helped him catch his first prey today.Proble

April 27, 2011

Chinese on fire to declare Guinness records

(Asia News Network)Amateur Yan Donglong, afire in a petrol blaze, sprints through the SenBhola Forest Theme Park, Fogang county, South China's Guangdong province on April 25. Yan, 32, also known as "Fire King," is challenging the Guinness World Record for "Running the longest distance while on fire" and "Man plays the most items with fire." The previous record holder is a British amateur Keith Mal

April 26, 2011

Murder suspect survives Grand Canyon leap

Terrance Deering Black, 48, suspect (AP)A man leapt into the Grand Canyon in an attempt to dodge police arrest. But he was still arrested because his desperate jump took him less far than expected -- 8 meters. Terrance Deering Black, 48, of Dallas, was accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Susan Loper, 40, who went missing last Tuesday from the Texas country club she worked in. Her body was found i

April 24, 2011

Right-handed humans ruled 500,000 years ago

(MCT)Right-handers not only far outnumber left-handers today, but did 500,000 years ago as well, reported LiveScience.com and Science Daily.Today, the ratio of right-handers to left-handers is 9:1. But according to the research of American scientists in UK scientific journal “Laterality,” 93.1 percent of humankind was right-handed 500,000 years ago.A researcher at the University of Kansas analyzed

April 22, 2011

Australian teacher ties child to chair

(MCT)An Australian teacher who allegedly tied a 5-year-old boy to a chair with some skipping rope was arrested on Wednesday.The child, who misbehaved during the class, was initially punished by having his hands tied to the back. However, as the student consistently became disruptive, the teacher than again tied his body to a chair for five minutes.The accused was a part-time who was in charge of 1

April 20, 2011

Top 10 most beautiful royal women

Kate Middleton (AP-Yonhap News)Kate Middleton, set to marry Prince William on April 29, has been selected third most beautiful royal, a poll showed. The Telegraph report is based on the poll conducted by a dating website BeautifulPeople.com on 127,000 people Monday. American actress Grace Kelly, who became Princess Grace when she married Prince Rainier Ⅲ of Monaco, topped the list with 91 percent

April 19, 2011

Miss Philippines is also board topnotcher

 Shamcey Supsup, a magna cum laude graduate from the University of the Philippines who says she values good education over fame and fortune, won Sunday (April 10) night’s Binibining Pilipinas (Miss Philippines) pageant.The 24-year-old beauty from General Santos City in southern Philippines, who also is an architecture board exams topnotcher, will represent the country in the Miss Universe pageant

April 14, 2011

Bangkok water-pistol fight to enter Guinness records

BANGKOK - As Thais nationwide celebrated the Thai New Year, Songkran, on April 13, Bangkok's Central World Shopping Plaza claimed success in beating a Spanish record for the world's largest water pistol fight.A foreign tourist is splashed with water by a young boy as people come out to mark the start of the Songkran festival, at a shopping mall in Bangkok.In September 2007, in Spain, 2,671 partici

April 14, 2011

Horrors of Japan’s March disaster caught on film

(YouTube)A video showing the acute situation during the Japanese earthquake last month was recently uploaded on YouTube. The video, filmed by a local resident in Minamisanriku region of Miyagi Prefecture, was made public on March 10. The five-minute video reveals how serious the situation was at the time. From far away, a dark cloud of dust moves forward and transforms into a tsunami wave as it re

April 14, 2011

FBI memo ‘confirms’ the 1947 Roswell UFO incident

A FBI memo describes the 1947 Roswell UFO incident. (FBI The Valut)A memo, released by FBI’s online resource website The Vault, appears to confirm the 1947 Roswell UFO incident, Daily Mail reported Saturday. An alien spacecraft allegedly crashed in the town of Roswell, New Mexico on July 2, 1947 and since then the incident has been the subject of controversy and conspiracy theories. The memo writt

April 11, 2011

Puppy gurgles like a baby

A video of a brownish poodle puppy has found fame on YouTube and CBS news in the U.S.The little shaggy poodle apparently has something in common with human babies -- it makes a very similar gurgling sound. In the video, the puppy is rolling on the floor and playing, biting his forefoot. Viewers can’t believe the gurgling sound is really from the puppy. They say it is undistinguishable from a baby’

April 10, 2011

America’s new trend: elf ear surgery

A new trend is emerging in the U.S. among youngsters: pointed ear surgery. According to ABC news, trendy young people who are fans of movies such as “Lord of the Rings” and “Star Trek,” like to copy the looks of elfin characters in these movies, especially their distinguishing pointed ears. The surgery is painful and dangerous. Unlike some tattoos and piercings, the ear surgery is expensive and no

April 10, 2011

Gran feeds street cats for 24 years

 (Guo Lianfu and her 85 adopted-cats at their home in Qingdao. China Daily via ANN)For cat lover Guo Lianfu sharing her home with 85 street cats is just a small part of the work she does caring for stray felines around Zhoukou residential area in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong province. At 71, retired Guo still leaves her house at 10 pm every night to give food to hundreds of abandoned cats, often

April 7, 2011

Woman seeks eternal youth through 52 plastic surgeries

(YouTube) Cindy Jackson, 55, has had 52 cosmetic surgeries so far, including the recent injection of a substance into her hands to boost collagen production, ABC News reported Wednesday. The report said Jackson had set the world record for the person undergoing the most procedures. “I didn’t set out to s

April 7, 2011

'Sacred' turtle captured in Vietnam lake

    (In this photo taken Sunday, Nguyen Quang Hue touches an injured giant softshell turtle after he and other workers pulled it from Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam. AP-Yonhap News)HANOI, Vietnam (AP) _ Veterinarians examined a rare giant turtle considered sacred by many Vietnamese at a makeshift hospital in Hanoi on Monday to check mysterious legions afflicting one of the last four known member

April 4, 2011

Little couple holds fairytale wedding in Dalian

The bride Zhu Jie and her groom Qin Xueshi wave to visitors in a pumpkin carriage at their wedding held at the Discoveryland Theme Park in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, April 1, 2011. (Xinhua News)A 23-year-old "pearl girl", whose height is only 1.22 meters, tied the knot with her boyfriend, who is of a similar size, in the Discoveryland Theme Park in northeastern China's port city

April 4, 2011

Remains of 8 million dogs found in Egypt

Young souvenir vendor walks along an almost empty road to the Giza pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. (AP-Yonhap News)When people think of Egypt’s representative animal, they usually think of cats. But they may change their minds, as about 8 million dogs were found in an underground tunnel in northern part of the country. The Daily Mail reported that scientists from Cardiff University inve

April 1, 2011