Super Slim House in Japan
Tokyo architectural firm Mizuishi Architect perform a complex order: designed the house on a narrow triangular plot of 50 sq.m. Hiroshi Tanigawa. Photographer: Hiroshi Tanigawa. 8 More Images |
Saturday 29 October 2011
Super Slim House in Japan
Cascades Huanlun - Yellow Dragon Scales
Cascades Huanlun - Yellow Dragon Scales
This is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. Nature created this travertine landscape with great ingenuity and artistic taste. 8 More Images |
Truck driver did not calculate the size
Truck driver did not calculate the size 
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Junrey Balawing - World's Shortest Man
Junrey Balawing - World's Shortest Man Junrey Balawing of Sindangan in the Southern Philippines is 23.6 inches (60cm) tall as he reached his 18th birthday. He is certified as the World's shortest man by the Guinness World Records. Previous record holder was Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal which made Balawing three inches smaller. He was born normal size according to the family, but when he was about four years old the family noticed that his peers grew more than he did. He stopped growing after his first birthday says his parents. The family was too poor to check out his medical condition. His father calls him the lucky charm of his family because he was unemployed until he was born and then found a job after his birth. |
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Dictators of the world
Dictators of the world
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Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Boy
Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Boy
The life of Dai Guohong was rather ordinary before 2008. He was 18 years old when he lost his both legs in the horrible Wenchuan earthquake. He didn't give in, trained a lot and has now become one of China's top swimmers.
Gaddafi's Last Minutes
Gaddafi's Last Minutes
Don't shoot! Dictator begs for his life after being dragged from a drain. Seconds later he was summarily executed
Dal Lake, Srinagar
Dal Lake is situated in the hub of the modern city of Srinagar, the summer capital of the State. The urban lake which is the second largest in the state is integral to tourism and recreation in Kashmir and is nick named as Srinagar’s Jewel. Ancient history records mention that a village named Isabar to the east of Dal Lake was the home of Goddess Durga. This place was known as Sureshwari on the bank of the lake which was sourced by a spring called Satadhara. Today the lake is an important source for commercial operations in fishing and water plant arvesting and a famous tourist spot.  10 More Images |
Meet my fantastic family of foxes
Meet my fantastic family of foxes:
Pensioner who shares her home with bushy-tailed 'Minette', 'Chico' and 'Billy'
'Hide and seek is a favourite game of theirs - they think it's hilarious ... You just can't get angry at them'
'No matter how comfortable they are there it's still not enough. Each night they insist on a kiss and a cuddle before bedtime'
Pensioner, 64, shares three-bedroom bungalow with the foxes
Last updated at 2:06 PM on 26th October 2011
You'd have thought those living in the country would prefer to hunt foxes rather than invite them into their home and let them watch TV.But that's just what Jane Shepherd, 64, has done and whether it's going about her household chores such as laundry and washing up or spending time in the garden there is always a fox or three nearby.
For the pensioner from Whittlebury in Northamptonshire has opened the doors of her three-bedroom bungalow to three bushy-tailed friends now calls family.'At the moment I live with Minette, Chico and Billy,' explains Jane.
A hug and a kiss: Jane Sheppard pictured at her home with one of her foxes. 'They are very affectionate - Chico loves to cover my face with kisses. They are actually a lot like cats rather than dogs'
Friday 28 October 2011
World's Most Expensive Motor House
The eleMMent palazzo is selling for a cool $2.9 million, making it the world's most expensive motorhome. Palazzo eleMMent designed like a luxurious mansion that runs by the Marchi Mobile, an Austrian automotive company. EleMMent designed for those who have a very high activity comes a line of superior equipment.
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Top 10 Global Cities in the World
Top 10 Global Cities in the World
10. Seoul, South Korea
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Bhutan royal wedding
His majesty King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 31, holds his Raven crown as he and the Queen Jetsun Pema, 21, walk out after their marriage ceremony is completed on October 13, 2011 in Punakha, Bhutan. The Dzong is the same venue that hosted the King's historic coronation ceremony in 2008. The Oxford-educated king is popular in the country and the ceremony will be followed by celebration in the capital and countryside.  |
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Young Girl With Progeria
Young Girl With Progeria
Hayley is 13 and loves shopping, Justin Bieber, and Twitter... and she has the body of a 105-year-old woman
By Claire Bates
Last updated at 2:00 PM on 13th October 2011
Like many young teenagers, Hayley Okines is obsessed with pop star Justin Bieber, messaging her friends on Twitter and going shopping. But there is one big difference. Hayley has progeria, which means her body ages eight times quicker than normal.
She suffers from arthritis, hip problems and baldness and dreams of having long lustrous locks that she can 'flick in the wind.'
Her life story is the subject of a ongoing documentary series for Five. When she last featured in 2010 she was starting secondary school and taking part in a pioneering medical trial in America.
Radio star: Hayley with her best friend at school before a hip problem forces her to learn from home
Leopards playing with young Deer
Leopards playing with young Deer
In the jungles of Africa, its a common scene for wildlife photographers to come across carnivorous animals hunting down deers, zebras or wilder beasts. In one such hunt, this wildlife photographer found a group of leopards chasing down a young deer. Leopards successfully caught the young deer but to his surprise, they didn't kill him. Instead, leopards started caressing the young deer and he started playing with the leopard cubs and later he was let go. |
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Monday 24 October 2011
EU launched its first Satellite Navigation System
European Space Agency (ESA) has launche Russian Soyuz VS01 rocket on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, in the space base of Kourou, French Guiana. The Russian Federal Space Agency and Arianespace,the commercial arm of the 13-country European Space Agency, also launched on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, the Soyuz rocket from the European spaceport in South America, carrying two Galileo navigation satellites in its maiden flight.  |
Beautiful Ferry Rides
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Beautiful Ferry Rides
Chile: The Patagonian fjords
This epic ferry ride spans 800 miles over four days, treating passengers to views of isolated estuaries and gulfs, massive ice fields and fjords slashed into the Andes. The boat even approaches the dramatic face of PÃo XI or Brüggen Glacier, which, at 488sqm, is the largest glacier in South America. Toast your adventure with pisco sours made with iceberg ice that the crew collects from PÃo XI.
World's most expensive campervan up for sale - for a cool £1.9m
Motorhome? Motormansion, more like... World's most expensive campervan up for sale - for a cool £1.9m
Motorhome? Motormansion, more like... World's most expensive campervan up for sale - for a cool £1.9m
Boasts master bedroom with en suite, rainfall shower and 40in flatscreen television
Features include glow-in-the-dark paint, underfloor heating, pop-up bar and roof terrace
By DEBORAH ARTHURS
Last updated at 5:25 PM on 18th October 2011
The world's most expensive motorhome is up for sale - with a price tag of £1.9million.
Austrian company Marchi Mobile is behind the 40ft long palace on wheels, called the eleMMent palazzo, which comes complete with a pop-up roof terrace measuring 215 sq ft, underfloor heating and a bar.The space-age vehicle has a huge master bedroom with 40-inch TV, an en suite bathroom, rainfall shower, separate toilet, lounge and driver's cab complete with bunk bed.
Features include glow-in-the-dark paint, underfloor heating, pop-up bar and roof terrace
More expensive per sq ft than a property in Hampstead, London
Last updated at 5:25 PM on 18th October 2011
The world's most expensive motorhome is up for sale - with a price tag of £1.9million.
Austrian company Marchi Mobile is behind the 40ft long palace on wheels, called the eleMMent palazzo, which comes complete with a pop-up roof terrace measuring 215 sq ft, underfloor heating and a bar.The space-age vehicle has a huge master bedroom with 40-inch TV, an en suite bathroom, rainfall shower, separate toilet, lounge and driver's cab complete with bunk bed.
The Marchi Mobile EleMMent Palazzo is the world's most expensive motorhome, up for sale with a price tag of £1.9m
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Sunday 23 October 2011
Population Explosion Family
As the world's population nears seven billion meet the man who hasn't helped! He has 39 wives, 94 children and lives in a 100-room house
- Family compound has its own school, playground, carpentry workshops, piggery and poultry farms and a veg garden
- Dinner for 'The World's Biggest Family' is usually 30 chickens, 132lb of potatoes and 220lb of rice
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:29 PM on 20th October 2011
Meet the world’s largest family.
If you’ve ever worried about having enough room for a growing brood, spare a thought for Ziona Chana.
He has 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren living under the same roof.
Home is a 100-room, four-storey house set in the hills of the village of Baktawng in the Indian state of Mizoram. Even then, some of his wives sleep top-to-tail in communal dormitories.
But Ziona doesn’t appear fazed by the size of his apparently happy family - and doesn’t claim any benefits for their upkeep.
Big brood: Ziona Chana has 94 children by 39 wives, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren
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Cool Living: Contemporary Warm And Cosy House
Here is an awesome mountain home that probably a lot of us could wish to own. On outside it looks like other neighboring buildings but the interior is contemporary and at the same time warm and cosy. The facade is done in wood and stone. The interior also features a lot of wood elements that probably make the space so cosy. Stairs, support beams, floors and some furniture are all done in timber. The design of all these things isn’t so rustic as in many other similar mountains homes but thanks to that the interior is so contemporary.
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Can You Drink This Wine?
Forget eating the worm after downing your tequila - with these bottles of unusual wine produced in Vietnam, a tasty tipple comes with a far more potent bite.
A village there is producing snake and scorpion wine and shipping it worldwide, with the rare beverage available to order online.
The venomous cobra snake is used to make the snake wine but the poison is cancelled out by the alcoholic content of the drink, meaning you'll avoid a pounding hangover.
This wine's certainly got teeth: Bottles of snake and scorpion wine can now be ordered online as an unusual gift or even a health tonic
Thursday 20 October 2011
China's richest village
Huaxi village, also known as China's richest village, celebrates its 50th anniversary with the inauguration of a massive 1,076 feet high skyscraper that screams for attention from its lowly skyline. A solid gold bull weighing a tonne also greets visitors at a viewing area on the 60th-floor of the tower, a testament to the wealth of the village.
In Huaxi, those from the original 2,000 residents have at least a house, a car, and $250,000 in the bank and enjoy universal health care and free education. Officials from elsewhere in China tour Huaxi to find out how this once sleepy village, with just 576 residents in the 1950s, is now so rich and why non-local businessmen would donate million-dollar factories to buy the privilege of a local residence permit.
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