Dog-gone it! Canine gets head stuck in wall

California animal rescue officers were called in after an eight-month old German Shepherd dog mysteriously got his head stuck in a wall this week. Stricken pooch Rebel was found whimpering with his head sticking out one side of the 18-inch thick wall in Desert Hot Springs, east of Los Angeles, while his body remained firmly on the other. 'My initial reaction was, 'Wow, how?d he get in there?' said Riverside County Animal Services Sergeant James Huffman. "And why is there a hole that big in the wall?" "It was a very odd situation .. It was uncertain if he was chasing another animal, or just curious," he added. After checking that Rebel could...

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Gran, 103, is 'world's oldest Facebook user'

A 103-year-old grandmother is believed to be the world's oldest Facebook user. Lillian Lowe, from Tenby in Pembrokeshire, regularly keeps her online friends updated about her life using her iPad. And being signed up to the social network also enables her to keep track of what her seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren are up to. Mrs Lowe, who is just two months away from her 104th birthday, took the oldest Facebook user title following the death of 104-year-old Ivy Bean in July. Despite some of the Facebook goings on that would shock many her age, Lillian says she isn't fazed by any of her grandchildren's "antics". She said: "I have...

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Student Finds Time-travelling Coin with Next Year's Date On It

Student Sarah Legg is hoping to make a mint by cashing in on a very unusual 50p coin she has found - with next year's date on it. 17-year-old Sarah of Fareham, Hants, was shocked when she saw the coin marked with the 2011 date stamped on it - which she got in change as she was buying lunch. Sarah, who is training to be a forensic scientist, was buying lunch at at Fareham College when she spotted the temporal anomaly. She said: 'I was just getting some food at college and thought the coin looked very shiny, so I took a closer look. I thought I had gone into the future with the markings it had. Where the date it is made was, it said 2011. 'I...

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Emirates Palace Erects $11m Christmas Tree

It holds a total of 181 diamonds, pearls, emeralds, sapphires and other precious stones. Christmas came in extravagant fashion to the emirate of Abu Dhabi as a glitzy hotel unveiled a bejewelled Christmas tree valued at more than $11 million. It is the "most expensive Christmas tree ever," with a "value of over $11 million," said Hans Olbertz, general manager of Emirates Palace hotel, at its inauguration. The 13-metre (40-foot) faux evergreen, located in the gold leaf-bedecked rotunda of the hotel, is decorated with silver and gold bows, ball-shaped ornaments and small white lights. But the necklaces, earrings and other jewellery draped around...

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Michael Jackson’s Clothes Sell For Millions At Auction

A glove and hat worn by Michael Jackson sold for over $400,000 at auction on Saturday, December 4. The items, a fedora which sold for $72,000 and a glove which reached $330,000, were part of the star’s wardrobe for his ‘Bad’ tour in 1980s and were sold through Julien’s Auctions as part of their ‘Icons and Idols’ sale. A jacket signed by the ‘Thriller’ hitmaker, who died from acute Propofol intoxication aged 50 in June 2009, was bought for $96,000. While the Michael Jackson collection, featuring over 100 items from the star’s life and career including a custom-made costume for his friend and companion Bubbles the chimp – took centre stage at...

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Ancient Egyptian Lake Discovered from Space

American researchers have said they discovered the remnants of a massive lake in Egypt as large as one of the Great Lakes. The discovery of the over 100,000 years old lake was confirmed from space shuttle imagery. ScienceNews.org reported that the images revealed a lake wider than Lake Erie that once existed a few miles west of the current Nile River. From the time it first appeared about 250,000 years ago, the lake in Egypt’s Tushka region would have grown and shrunk periodically until finally drying up about 80,000 years ago, researchers say. Knowing where such ancient bodies of water were located helps archaeologists understand the kind...

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Family shares home with 80 exotic animals

Alan and Heather Hewitt live with an amazing menagerie of 80 exotic creatures, reports The Sun. The family runs a sanctuary and a rescue home and there are about 20 snakes, 15 reptiles, 25 mammals - plus assorted birds and invertebrates living in the house. The couple boasts a 'collection' comprising 35 different species. They include two monitor lizards, six bearded dragons, four boa constrictors, two pythons, two giant tortoises, a cane toad, four tarantula spiders, various rodents, an African grey parrot, two meerkats, two racoons and a Skunk, according to the daily. Sou...

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MySpace seeks mojo with a new design and new features

MySpace hаѕ hаԁ trουbƖе staying relevant аѕ Facebook’s user base continues tο grow. Bυt wіth іtѕ latest update, thе News Corp.-owned social network іѕ trying tο see іf іt саn regain аt Ɩеаѕt ѕοmе οf іtѕ past glory wіth social entertainment targeted toward Generation Y. MySpace’s nеw site design іѕ intended tο hеƖр Gen Y users find a “broad array οf programming, including originals, exclusives, аnԁ content frοm around thе Web.” Thе company іѕ аƖѕο encouraging users tο share thеіr interests οn thеіr profiles, аѕ well аѕ “connect” tο others whο share those interests. MySpace Mojo Once users log іn tο thеіr accounts, thе nеw MySpace welcome page...

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Google To Test 1Gbps Internet At Stanford's Campus

Earlier in the year, Google made clear that they wanted to get in the business of providing Internet service, not just service search on the Internet. A ton of cities made their case to Google in order to be selected for one of the first rollouts, but Google has still yet to make their decision on that. In fact, an update today provided by the company states that they're hoping to have that community or communities selected by the end of the year. But you won't have to wait that long to start hearing reports about how great (or not so great) Google's fiber-based ISP is. That's because the company has landed a deal with Stanford University that...

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The Most Disgusting iPhone Charger Ever

Want to lay eyes on the most disgusting iPhone charger you’ve ever seen in your life? Don’t take my word for it, hit play on the video above and behold the Umbilical Cord iPhone Charger. Note how the cord pulsates and moves as the charger delivers nutrients, er, I mean power to your iPhone. Credit for this piece of double-take gadgetry goes to Japanese artist Mio I-zawa. Quite honestly, I’m not sure whether to ask him ‘WHY!?’, or just leave this as is, and tell myself I’ll never look at that video again. Unfortunately I can’t tell you if this is available for purchase or not, as I was turned-off just enough to not want to know much more about...

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Hackers Break Microsoft's Kinect Security

A few days after Microsoft launched its Kinect motion-sensing game system, hackers seem to have broken the security behind Kinect. On the day Kinect went on sale, Adafruit Industries, an open source hardware developer, announced a $1,000 bounty for the first person or group to develop an open source driver for Microsoft's Kinect. One of Adaruit's leaders, Make magazine Senior Editor Phillip Torrone, told CNET, "Adafruit is hoping someone will figure out how to use Kinect in education, robotics, or 'fun outside the Xbox.' We think First Robotics could use this. We think educators could use this. Look at all the cool stuff people did with the...

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Live Crab Vending Machine in China

Yes, it's true: an entrepreneur in Nanjing, China, has stocked a vending machine with Shanghai Hairy Crabs. The delicacy (if anything with "hairy" in its name could be a delicacy) is kept at 5° Celsius, where it hibernates until it is sold for ¥120-600 (between $1.40 and $7.30), which is apparently a thirty percent markdown from retail. Even the Japanese media seem to find this one peculiar -- and this is a country that sells liquor, pornography, and Maine lobsters in its vending machines. See it for yourself in the video after the break...

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Village asks to be wiped from Google's map

A day after a small town became the first in Germany to welcome Google's controversial Street View service with open arms and cake, a tiny northern village responded Wednesday with a resounding Nein. The hamlet of Parum, population 70, has come together to sign a petition addressed to Federal Data Protection Officer Peter Schaar to get the village wiped off the Street View map, due to be rolled out by the end of the year. If this does not work, all 25 households intend to apply individually to Google to have their houses pixellated, a special concession the US Internet giant made in Germany, sensitive to privacy issues for historical reasons. "Parum...

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Harry Potter blamed for India's disappearing owls

Harry Potter has been blamed for the dwindling number of wild owls in India, according to the country’s Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh. Mr Ramesh said the craze for Harry Potter in India had led to an increase in people buying owls from illegal bird traders. "Following Harry Potter, there seems to be a strange fascination even among the urban middle classes for presenting their children with owls," Mr Ramesh told the BBC. A report by conservation group Traffic suggested tough measures should be put in place to protect owls from an upcoming Hindu festival – Diwali - because thousands of owls are sacrificed on Hindu "auspicious occasions". The...

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Biggest GoldFish In The World Found

Yes its looks like a giant goldfish, but in fact it is a 30 pound koi carp. The fish was caught in a lake in France by angler Raphael Biagini, surprisingly it only took him 10 minutes to get the fish out of the water. The fish weighs the equivalent of your average 3 year old child, the fish is the biggest of its type ever caught in the wild. At the moment a picture of the fish is being viewed across the world on You Tube. The fish was caught a few months ago. Many people believe the picture to be a hoax, they have been quick to point out that the angler is holding the fish in the same manner you would hold a 10 pound fish not a 30 pound fish....

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Husband Finds Photos of Wife Having Sex With the Family Dog

We can all agree that Cornelia Gragg possesses the looks and the raw sexuality that could burn a hole in the atmosphere. Though she's married, surely she could find legions of frisky suitors around her home in Greenwood, Arkansas. But she's too much woman for mere man... Which is why she expanded her carnality to other species, namely her dog. And just to have some keepsakes of her venture into canine love, she decided to take pictures that she could keep on her computer. Though they may have provided Cornelia with fond memories, her husband wasn't too pleased when he discovered them on their home computer. They indicated she'd been having...

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Man likely shot himself while sleepwalking

Police said a Boulder man who told police he woke up to a "bang" and realized he suffered a gunshot wound to his knee likely shot himself while sleepwalking. The Daily Camera reported that 63-year-old Sanford Rothman told investigators he had no clear recollection of the incident. No one else was in Rothman's home at the time. Boulder police Sgt. Paul Reichenback said that Rothman keeps a 9 mm handgun near his bed and takes presciption medication for pain. Police said no alcohol or illegal drugs played a role in the incident. Rothman was treated at a hospital and released. emirates247.c...

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FIFA World Cup 2010 Predictor - Paul the Octopus Died

Paul the Octopus, the cephalopod who became a global sensation after successfully predicting matches at the World Cup, has died peacefully in his sleep aged two. Stefan Porwoll, general manager of the Oberhausen Sea Life centre in Germany - where Paul made his predictions - confirmed the news. "He died last night, a peaceful and natural death," Porwoll said. Paul, who was born in January 2008 in Weymouth, correctly predicted the winner of all seven of Germany's matches at this summer's World Cup in South Africa. He then correctly chose Spain over the Netherlands before the final. Paul made his predictions by choosing between two feed boxes...

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Mayan prophecy pegged to wrong year?

It's a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn't end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will - or if it has already. A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World" (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That...

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Bored lottery winner drank himself to death

A father-of-two who won £9 million on the lottery was so 'bored' after he gave up his job as a baker he drank himself to death. Keith Gough, 58, of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, was thought to be penniless when he died in March after suffering a heart attack brought on by drinking and stress, the Daily Mail reported.  “read more” But he had actually left nearly £800,000 in his will, it emerged last week. Gough and his wife Louise won £9m in 2005 and splashed out on a top-of-the-range BMW, racehorses and an executive box at Aston Villa Football Club. But the couple, who were married for 27 years, separated two years later after Gough quit his...

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Adriana Lima reveals her $2m diamond bra

Supermodel Adriana Lima brought part of New York to a standstill yesterday, by arriving at a lingerie store wearing a $2m bra. Lima was modelling the Victoria's Secret 'Bombshell fantasy' bra -- also dubbed the bling-bra -- at their store in Soho. The bra is encrusted with more than 3,000 cut white diamonds, light blue sapphires and oval-shaped topazes, all hand-set in 18 karat white gold. Designed by Damiani it has a total carat weight of 142ct and the pattern is meant to be based on swirling stars and constellations. Apparently 29-year-old Lima was also wearing a blue satin gown at the promotional event… we can't sae we noticed. The bra...

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"Dr. Death" sells human body parts online

The move has provoked strong condemnation from German churches which accuse him of degrading human dignity. A whole body from www.plastination-products.com costs about 70,000 euros ($97,400), torsos start at 55,644 euros and heads come in at around 22,000 euros each — excluding postage and packaging. For those on a tighter budget, transparent body slices are available from 115 euros each. But these real body parts — which have undergone plastination, a process which replaces water and fat with plastic for preservation purposes — are not available to everyone. Only “qualified users” who can provide written proof that they intend to use the...

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Austria's first 'bionic' man dies in car crash

 The car mechanic lost both his arms when he climbed a high-voltage electricity pylon as a dare. An Austrian man who became the first person outside the US to wear thought-powered "bionic" arms has died from injuries sustained in a car crash, the hospital where he was treated said. Doctors at the Medical University of Graz said they switched off the life support machines of Christian Kandlbauer on Friday night after determining he was clinically brain dead. Kandlbauer, who would have turned 23 next month, sustained severe head injuries when the specially modified car he was driving served off the road in the south east of Austria and...

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