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Baby elephant learns to paint

Raluca Dina — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:28:13 +0000

A family of painting elephants prepare to wow audiences at a Japanese zoo. An elephant couple and their one year old baby put paint onto canvas with a paintbrush held in their trunks to display their artistic abilities.

Twins in rare colour difference.

Raluca Dina — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:15:10 +0000

A couple in Germany has become famous for being the parents ot twins born with different skin colours Leo and Ryan were born in a clinic in Berlin last week and have since become celebrities. Their parents are from Germany and Ghana and one brother was born with completely different colour skin to the other. Doctors say its incredibly rare.

Bikini-Clad Model Hawks Condo Giveaway

Raluca Dina — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:23:39 +0000

A Massachusetts developer is using a sexy online spokesmodel to promote a condominium giveaway.

Dancing Dogs

Raluca Dina — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:21:47 +0000

Fido Dancing Dogs in Tokyo

Pregnant Teacher Charged

Raluca Dina — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:19:38 +0000

Ohio group home teacher charged after sex with 16-year-old boy.

Funny Rants: Deal or not Deal

Raluca Dina — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:14:38 +0000

Funny Rants

Alligator Makes Self at Home

Raluca Dina — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:54:16 +0000

A 69-year-old Florida woman finds an 8-foot alligator in her kitchen, apparently finding its way inside through a sliding glass door left open. A trapper removed the gator, which cut itself when a plate fell to the floor.

Billboard to promote a local gunshow.

Raluca Dina — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:39:59 +0000

Motorists who drive I-83 in southern Pennsylvania are getting an eyeful from a billboard that’s using sex to promote a local gunshow. Is it too racy?

Attacks by Wild Turkeys

Raluca Dina — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:48:36 +0000

Ten to 15 wild turkeys have taken over one Madison, Wisconsin, Neighborhood. Postal workers say the turkeys have attacked them on occasion. They say they are now protecting themselves to fend off the foul.

Man Hypnotizes Cashier and Steals Money

Raluca Dina — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:22:42 +0000

Italian police have issued surveillance video of a man who appeared to hypnotize a supermarket cashier before stealing money from her cash register.

Mascots Fight During Basketball Game

Raluca Dina — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:23:17 +0000

The men’s championship game between Oral Roberts University and IUPUI of the Summit League, was overshadowed when a fight between the teams mascots erupted like a royal flush win in poker.

Ice-Chewing a Cold Comfort for Some

Raluca Dina — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:25:27 +0000

WSJ‘s Ilan Brat looks at how ice-chewing is taking off and also finds himself getting hooked on the strangely addicting cold treat.

World’s largest swimming pool

Raluca Dina — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:08:08 +0000

The pool is a kilometer long and is as deep as 35 meters.

Ice bar, tourists new love

Raluca Dina — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:01:24 +0000

Ice bar: Winter nights in China’s northeastern Harbin city were never boring. Just a few hours drive south of Siberia, Harbin’s winter temperature can go to minus 20 degree centigrade. The city lights up every year with ice lantern sculptures and people performing on ice.

Sweaty feet into minty feet

Raluca Dina — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:31:57 +0000

A Japanese shoe maker has developed a sponge that fits in a shoe and is imbued with mint at the heel, allowing the wearer to pump mint fumes in the shoe every time he or she walks.

Women-only buses

Raluca Dina — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:21:22 +0000

Women-only buses: It’s not an entirely exclusive program: some boys are allowed. So far only bus drivers are men but the city has instituted a program to train female drivers.

Japan’s speediest rodent

Raluca Dina — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:46:46 +0000

The mice competed in a rodent run at a Japan zoo to celebrate the year of the Rat.

Boy Glues Hand to Bed to Avoid School

Raluca Dina — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:38:35 +0000

Most students dread going back to school after winter break, but a 10-year-old Mexican boy was so anxious to stay home that he took matters into his own hands.

Sticky ice buns

Raluca Dina — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:20:56 +0000

While most Muscovites prefer to sit in their heated homes and wait for winter to pass, for a small group of people the frozen waters around the Russian capital hold a special appeal.

Monuments carved in ice

Raluca Dina — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:31:18 +0000

Predicted low temperatures will hopefully keep these man-made wonders standing for at least two more weeks.

Elephants race

Raluca Dina — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:43:43 +0000

Each year for the last four years Nepal has organised an International Elephant Race, attracting hundreds of onlookers — both locals and tourists — to one of the country’s best-loved pastimes, which honours one of the country’s most-loved animals.Appropriately time to fall between Christmas and New Year, at the peak of the year’s festive season, the elephant race is an event that mahouts across Nepal prepare for all year.

Oddly Enough Year-in-Review

Raluca Dina — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:53:19 +0000

The art of pen spinning

Raluca Dina — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:00:33 +0000

Twirling your pen or pencil through your fingers is being elevated to a form of art in Japan.

Indigenous Australians Take on Greek Dance

Raluca Dina — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:39:39 +0000

Check out these indigenous Australian dancers as they put on their own unique version of ‘Zorba the Greek.’ The music was composed for a 1964 classic movie, which starred Anthony Quinn.