Close shave with a grizzly bear - tourist encounter in Alaska - amazing pictures

Tourists thought they were watching bears salmon fishing from a safe distance in Alaska's Katmai National Park.

Then a huge grizzly charged at them and the 10 tourists and a guide froze – which is fortunate because the grizzly was just being nosey. It circled them, sniffed one the group's hoods and finally wandered off.

Wildlife experts say that bear attacks are rare. Most occur when there are only one or two people in the area.

List of fatal bear attacks in America: Wikipedia


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Are these the world's most beautiful cars?

The Los Angeles Times has an excellent display of what it says are the most beautiful cars in the world.

Top of the list for the Edmunds.com editors is the 1974 Lamborghini Countach LP400. Number two is the 1931 Duesenberg Model J Long Wheelbase Coupe.

Think I would switch those around and make the Duesenberg top dog.

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Woman eats 4,000 washing-up sponges and 100 bars of soap

Kerry Trebilcock suffers from a rare disease called pica that causes people to eat non-edible things.

And the 21-year-old has told how she consumed 4,000 washing-up sponges and more than 100 bars of soap.

Miss Trebilcock, from Cornwall, told the Sun: "If I went out for the day I'd carry a small plastic bag of cut-up pieces of sponge with some tomato and BBQ sauce in Tupperware. I was never without a 'snack'."

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Hitman for hire on the web - and everyone thought it was a joke, until...

Even the designer of a website called HitmanForHire.net thought it was a joke - but then the FBI and police in Ireland learned that a Las Vegas poker dealer was 'in business', according to the Los Angeles Times.

With a few clicks, the site promised that hiring a hit man was easy – and would-be killers could even upload their CV.

'Thanks to the internet, ordering a hit has never been easier,' said the website.

The amazing case of the hitman website was finally unravelled by FBI Agent Ingerd Sotelo and the whole story is well worth a read at: LA TIMES STORY

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Woman expecting babies 9 and 10 - surrogate mother wants to have 12 before she's 50

A woman in Brighton, East Sussex, is pregnant with her ninth and tenth babies and she wants to have 12 before she is 50 in a couple of years.

Jill Hawkins, a surrogate mother, is 14 weeks pregnant with twins from frozen embryos produced by a British teacher and his wife, according to the Brighton Argus.

Miss Hawkins, a legal secretary last gave birth two years ago and the twins are due in August, three weeks before her 48th birthday.

She told the Argus: “I’m a naturally giving person and to be able to give babies away is what I do."

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'UFO filmed in Rottingdean, Sussex' - yeah, right!

A red blob caught on video by a man in Sussex is claimed to be a UFO – and the alien watchers are jumping about again.

The Argus, Brighton, reports that David Flannery captured the mysterious blob in the sky over Rottingdean and it was chased away by helicopters.

'I was standing in Holmes Avenue and it was hovering in the sky over Kemp Town way... this wasn't a Chinese lantern. I know what they look like,' he told the Argus.

He apparently called the police and Ministry of Justice, 'but received no answers' - there's a surprise.

The report says Mr Flannery is 'from Sherbourne Close, Rottingdean'. But there doesn't appear to be such a close in the village, which blows a big hole in the story straight away. There is a Sherbourne Close to the west of Brighton in Hove/Portslade, which is, incidently, only 5 minutes away from Holmes Avenue!

The story has been picked up so far by the website UFOEvidence.co. Just goes to show how these stories do the rounds.

Two lovely comments on the Argus story include:
'You develop the technology to travel light years through space, you get there and are chased away by helicopters.'

'It has got to be true. Aliens travel millions of light years using technology beyond human understanding to investigate Rottingdean nightlife.'

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World's shortest person lives in Nepal - 54.6cm high, official - video

The world's shortest man - indeed the shortest person ever - is officially named as 72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal.

Dangi, who lives in a remote village 250 miles west of Kathmandu, has been measured at 54.6 cm (21.5 inches) high by Guinness World Records. He has been given two certificates.

He has five brothers of average height and his family doesn't know when he stopped growing.

Dangi wants to travel across Nepal and the world.

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The Artist: five oscars for silent movie and Uggie the dog

Well done to silent movie 'The Artist' and Uggie the dog for sweeping the floor at the Oscars.

The film won five awards: best picture, best director, best actor for Jean Dujardin, best score and best costumes.

Director Michel Hazanavicius, who won his first nomination, thanked Uggie for helping to make the film such a success.

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Amazing electron microscope pictures

Look at these amazing electron microscope pictures. One of them looks like the Grand Canyon, but it's really a micro crack in steel, others are scary monsters just a few mm across.

Clockwise from top left: Micro-crack in Steel by Martina Dienstleder; Parasitic Mite on Mosquito Larva by Nicole Ottawa; Caterpillar by Oliver Meckes; Spider’s Head by Oliver Meckes.

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Old comic books sell for $3.5m - collection with Batman debut - New York

An extraordinary collection of old comic books has sold for $3.5 million (£2.2 million) in New York.

The top comic, which featured Batman's debut, was "Detective Comics No 27", which sold for $523,000. It cost just 10 cents in 1939.

A remarkable collection of 345 comics belonged to Billy Wright, who bought the issues when he was a boy. It was found when Mr Wright died and a relative was clearing the basement of his home in Virginia, USA.

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Cooking with Poo - yes, there really is a book!

"Cooking with Poo" has been shortlisted for the oddest book title of year.

The Thai cook book is by Saiyuud Diwong and "poo" is Thai for "crab". It also happens to be the author's nickname.

Other amazing titles shortlisted for a prize, according to the Telegraph, include "A Century of Sand Dredging in the Bristol Channel: Volume Two".

I assume there must be a volume one somewhere, so someone must being reading them!

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Car crash live on TV report - car and cab collide behind news reporter - video

A car crash was caught live on TV in Tampa, USA, as News Channel 8 reporter Adrienne Pederson was talking to camera about rising gas prices.

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Thousands 'found' in old safe bought on eBay - $122.03 item cut open to reveal $26,000 - video

An old safe bought on eBay was found to contain thousands of dollars when it was cut open.

The safe with no key was sold for $122.93 and the buyer said he found $26,000. But when the seller demanded a cut and was refused, he backtracked and said the buyer was playing a practical joke.

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Frank Carson tributes - RIP Belfast-born comedian

Tributes to comedy legend Frank Carson are flooding in. The Belfast-born stand-up comedian lost his battle with cancer, aged 85.

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Free house if Brighton and Hove Albion are promoted - man bets £1.4m home on Seagulls

A man in Hove has bet his £1.4 million house on Brighton and Hove Albion being promoted from the Championship to the Premier League.

He says that if anyone buys his house in Hove now, he will pay them back if the Seagulls win promotion, no strings attached, according to the Brighton Argus.

The Seagulls are ninth in the league, three points from a play-off place after drawing 0-0 with Hull away last night.

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Dog chases mountain lion up tree in Los Altos, California - video

Cody the German Shepherd dog gave chase when he saw a cat in his garden. The cat bolted up a tree and sat there for more than three hours. Yet, it wasn’t an ordinary cat, for Cody had scared a 110lb mountain lion.

The mountain lion stopped on a 40ft high branch and eventually made off in Los Altos, California.

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Knockers stolen from front doors by desperate thieves - Philadelphia

Desperate thieves are stealing knockers from front doors to melt down and sell for scrap. The knockers have gone missing from doors in a historic neighbourhood of Philadelphia, according to a Mail report.

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Pink diamond found in Australia - rare, rough and worth millions

A pink diamond unearthed in Australia could be worth millions.

The 12.76 carat diamond, the largest rough pink found in the country, has been named the Argyle Pink Jubilee.

It is being being cut and polished in Perth and will be sold later this year after a world tour.

The diamond was found at Rio Tinto's Argyle mine in Western Australia.

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Half-marathon was a bit long – Brighton runners went too far

Runners in the Brighton Marathon on Sunday had to run an extra 500 yards more than was advertised.

Organisers have apologised after dozens complained about the distance because of a mix-up, according to the Brighton Argus.

Runners’ times had to be amended on the half-marathon website to take into account the error.

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Test-tube burger could be ready in October – scientists in Holland growing meat

An artificial burger made from meat grown in a test-tube could be available by the end of the year.

Scientists in Holland are working on a $330,000 project that involves stem cells from a cow and funds from an anonymous investor.

According to the Los Angeles Times, scientists led by Mark Post, chairman of physiology at Maastrict University, have already produced ‘several small strips of muscle tissue’. Once thousands more are made, they could be mashed together to make a burger.

The first burger made from test-tube meat could be available in October.

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Airways turn blue: Jazz FM broadcasts porn; weatherman uses C-word by accident

The airways have been turning blue with ‘sex noises’ aired on radio and a weather man for the BBC accidentally letting slip one of the rudest words in the English language.

First, Jazz FM had to apologise when the soundtrack to an adult film, including moans and groans, was aired during the Funky Sensation programme.

Then, BBC weatherman Alex Deakin, broadcasting live, said “bucketloads of c---” instead of sunshine. Some viewers thought he tried to say the word "country", realised his mistake and stopped halfway through. A YouTube clip of the gaffe has been posted.

JAZZ FM: MAIL STORY

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Have your images been stolen? Find out who is using them with this niffy app

Here is a niffy way to find out if your images have been stolen online.

Just go to this website Src Img and drag the link into the bookmarks bar of your browser.

When you want to track images, go to the page containing your photos and click the link. An upside down question mark appears on the pictures.

Click the question mark and you'll get a window of similar images, using Google search.

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Driver rescued after buried in snow for 61 days - body slowed like hibernating animal

A driver who was buried for 61 days in a 7ft snowdrift was finally rescued alive from his car in Umea, Sweden.

All he had to stay alive in temperatures of -30C were cigarettes, comics and a sleeping bag! The 44-year-old had survived by eating snow and experts believe the cold slowed down his body like a hibernating animal.

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World's most expensive Cognac - Napoleon's bottle goes to auction

A Cognac that travelled with Napoleon Bonaparte on his conquests around Europe - and the last of its kind - is to be auctioned. And, at a whopping £114,500, it could become the most expensive Cognac in the world.

Made in 1795, it is among about 5,000 unopened bottles of spirits, worth about £5 million, belonging to a Dutch collector, Bay Van der Bunt.

Mr van der Bunt bought the hand-blown six-litre Jeroboam bottle from a Chicago collector in 1990 for £20,000.

He said: 'It travelled with Napoleon's army. You can just see it there lying with the others in the hay cart. After the battle – and probably before – the officers would drink from it.'

Mr van der Bunt will apparently vet prospective buyers to make sure the Cognac goes to a collector and isn't drunk!

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Olympus OM-D E-5 - the camera I have always wanted?

Is this the camera I have always been waiting for? I'm a big fan of the original Olympus OM series 35mm cameras, with their superb lenses and compact bodies.

And now Olympus have launched a digital OM with classic styling and a Micro Four Thirds mount. If it is as good as the Pen series I would be happy - but it's supposed to be even better, with a 16MP sensor in a weather-sealed body.

State of the art in a classic body? Let's hope so.

The Olympus OM-D E-5 is expected to be available from April 2012 and will cost about £1,149.99 ($1,299.99).


Dpreview hands-on review of the Olympus OM-D E-5.

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Bulldog adopts wild boar piglets in Germany - great pictures

A bulldog has adopted wild boar piglets at an animal sanctuary outside Berlin, according to the Huffington Post. And there are some great pictures on the site.

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Amanda Knox signs book deal worth $4m (£2.5m)

Amanda Knox, the 24-year-old, American who was cleared in October of killing Meredith Kercher, her British housemate in Perugia, Italy, has signed a book deal said to be worth $4 million.

The publisher, HarperCollins, says it will be a “full and unflinching account” of her arrest and trial and will be published in 2013.

Seven publishers had submitted bids during a recent auction.

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Legless break dancer takes India and the net by storm

A legless break dancer who learnt his amazing moves in just three months from the internet has become a star in India.

Vinod Thakur, 22, who was born handicapped, even went on India's Got Talent.






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Watch out when texting – woman falls during TV news broadcast in Canada

A business woman slipped and fell while she was texting, and it was all captured in the background of a live TV news broadcast in Canada.

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