Two students hitched a ride on Richard Branson plane to see the inaugural speech the new president Obama in Washington. On a course of a question and answer session with the British Entrepreneur at the Amsterdam congress, these two students asked if they could hitch a ride on the aircraft.
Becoming a father at the ripe age of 111 is surely news. A lizard-like captive reptile in New Zealand managed to become a father at this age. The centenarian tuatara became hostile towards mate after receiving treatment for cancer. He has managed to father 11 off-springs. These creatures come under the endangered reptile lists.
The New Zealand Prime Minister handed out awards and shook hands with nearly hundred of burly rugby players in spite of a broken arm. He broke it after falling off a flight of concrete steps over the weekend. He went to see the doctor only after the award ceremony.
Doctors at a Californian hospital were shocked when a lady gave birth to octuplets this week. This is the second set of eight babies to be born at a time from a mother’s womb in the United States. There are six boys and two girls and all of them are stable.
People in Pakistan seem to have developed as new past time that of scribbling on currency notes. Not just scribbling but also drawing caricatures. The banks are irked with such kinds of currency that come back to them in such conditions. Phone numbers, anti-governmental slogans are most common scribbles on the currency notes.
Times when electronics are cast away after using for few years, this panasonsic microwave is in the news for being the oldest. It has been working for the past forty years and has served almost 150,000 meals. It has been used daily since it was bought in 1960’s.
A person looking just like Obama is creating news in Indonesia. The Indonesian llham Anas is cashing on his striking resemblance to the American President Obama. A photographer by profession, he is getting offers for commercials where he get to acts as the president. He has already been invited to the top talk shows on the television in Indonesia.
It is believed that Ainan Cawley, an eight-year-old British prodigy, is the world’s cleverest child. At the age of seven he passed the GCSE exams and now studies chemistry at college. He was just four months old when he started crawling, six months when he started to walk and eight months when he started to read.
If you want to star in a commercial you can make your way down to South Australia. The tourism department has launched a business venture where tourists are given a chance to star in their own commercial to promote the state. The tourism commission is promoting this along with STA travels.
A 72 year old man gets his shaggy eyebrow shaved off to raise money for charity. People paid and took turns to trim his three inches long eyebrows that were really out of control. His eyebrows had never been trimmed that is why it was so long. Almost $1,600 was raised in charity.