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Germany celebrates its sense of humour with comedy museum
Germany has challenged age-old prejudices by opening a museum that celebrates the nation's sense of humour.
Pictured: The awesome human towers built during traditional Spanish festival
It's doubtful whether health and safety officials would ever permit it in Britain, but yesterday hundreds of Spaniards took part in a traditional human tower building competition. Members of the Castellers de Sants constructed a number of towers that teetered on collapse throughout the day during the 22nd Tarragona Castells contest. ...
Now animals fall victim to China toxic milk scandal as officials admit cover-up during Olympics
The 'tainted milk' scandal, which has claimed the lives of four infants and left more than 50,000 children ill in China, is now putting zoo animals in danger. Two orangutans, aged one and three, and a lion cub are now reported to be showing signs of kidney stones after being fed the milk powder for more than a year. The animals are from the Hangzhou Safari Park World near Shanghai. ...
The great heave forward... Chinese passengers are forced to push broken-down plane
Lost luggage, long queues in a packed airport, or a grilling by customs officials - the tribulations do not necessarily end for air travellers when their flight is over. But few can have been asked to get out and help push their plane along the runway, as these passengers in China were after their jet broke down just after landing. The CRJ7 plane, which had just flown some 500 miles from Guilin in the south of the country with 69 passengers and seven crew members on board, conked out before it could taxi to the arrivals terminal at Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province. ...
Will you be my new mummy? Orphan gorilla gets to grips with her new keeper after being adopted by British zoo
They were worried she might have trouble fitting into the family. But as these tender pictures show, Kera the gorilla already considers herself perfectly at home. ...
Welcome to the World's Largest Gold Vault
Just a Few Blocks From the Bustle of Wall Street Sits $200 Billion in Gold....
Shell shocker: The baby turtle born with two-heads
It is the baby turtle that proves two heads really are better than one. While its siblings grow at a the usual steady pace, this tiny creature is speeding ahead. The reason for its extraordinary growth spurt is simple: having two heads mean it eats twice as fast. ...
'I now pronounce you monkey and wife': Animals are married in controversial Chinese zoo stunt
Maybe the dress wasn't the right size, or perhaps it was the grey and gloomy weather - but these two monkeys don't seem over-the-moon after being married in China....
'Thunder' rules US boxoffice, 'Dark Knight' breaks 500 million
The Ben Stiller comedy "Tropic Thunder" was the most-watched movie across North American over the long US Labor Day weekend, but it was "The Dark Knight" that made news by breaking the 500-million-dollar mark, industry figures showed Sunday....
Russian tycoon buys world's most expensive villa
A Russian tycoon has bought France's priciest house and the most expensive villa in the world. ...
Action man Sarkozy sweats it up on a cycling and beach holiday
He has been nicknamed 'President Bling Bling', but Nicolas Sarkozy left his usual flashy style at home yesterday as he worked up a sweat on the beach. After a busy year the French president could have been forgiven for taking the rare chance to relax. But instead he has spent the last few days unwinding with an energetic timetable of cycling, swimming and jogging in the south of France. ...
Pictured: The black and white British twins born at odds of a million to one
It will be very easy for new parents Tracey-Ann and Andrew Balasco to tell their baby twins apart - because one is black and the other is white. While Orlando inherited his mop of black curls and big brown eyes from his Jamaican mother, his sister Natalia has blue eyes and wispy blonde hair. ...
You talkin to me? 'Robert De Niro' arrested in Romania
A petty forger tried to pass himself off as the Taxi Driver star when stopped by police. ...
Top Tyrants: Playing happy families with dictators Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin
A card game featuring the great dictators of history including Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin has been released in Germany....
Miss Venezuela crowned Miss Universe on unlikely Vietnam stage
Vietnam has made communist history by hosting the Miss Universe competition, which was won once again by the contestant from beauty pageant "super-power", Venezuela. ...
A Private Dance? Four Million Web Fans Say No
There are no weekend box office charts for online videos. But if there were, near or at the very top of the list right now might well be a four-and-a-half-minute video called “Dancing,” which more than four million people have viewed on YouTube, and perhaps another million on other sites, in the just over two weeks since it appeared. It’s the online equivalent of a platinum hit, seeping from one computer to the next like a virus....
Pictured: The floating cities that could one day house climate change refugees
At first glance, they look like a couple of giant inflatable garden chairs that have washed out to sea But they are, apparently, the ultimate solution to rapidly rising sea levels. This computer-generated image shows two floating cities, each with enough room for 50,000 inhabitants. ...
World's oldest mother gives birth to twins at 70
She was utterly determined to have a son. The fact that to do so would make 70-year-old Omkari Panwar the world's oldest mother didn't even cross her mind. Her resolve was matched by her husband Charan Singh Panwar, 77. ...
Pictured: Monster crab with claws the size of a man's hand captured off the British coast
A monster crab - three times the size of average - and with claws bigger than a man’s hands - has been hauled from the deep. The whopping 17lb crustacean measures an unbelievable width of more than two feet when fully extended, as well as having an impressive shell width of 12 inches. It has an incredible a claw span of nine inches - big enough to break bones. ...
Six-foot python found in Australian toilet bowl
A snake measuring over 1.83m (6ft) was today found curled up in a toilet bowl in a 10th floor flat, in northern Australia....
khaled
on
20 November, 2008 06:07:41
we have to do our best, to protect our countries against this future monster.
mohammad : kenya
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20 November, 2008 10:05:15
i vote cristiano ronaldo be couse he win a primier legue and champions legue and he is on form
Lagadas770 : Nigeria
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20 November, 2008 09:40:07
To my own view and as at moment LIONEL MESSI (wonder feet) deserve 2008 W.B. The past is 4 C.ronaldo
Ayoubi Abdelkader : Algèrie
on
19 November, 2008 05:56:04
Aceque il ya nu bonus poub les handicapies
BALLY : NIGERIA
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19 November, 2008 01:57:25
C. RONALDO SHOULD BE GIVEN THE WORLD BEST PLAYER