Little Aaradhya Bachchan, who recently flew to Bhopal with her parents Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan and grandparents Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, was spotted in her mom's arms as she arrived back into the city.
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Tuesday 10 December 2013
Little Aaradhya Bachchan And Aishwarya Rai Spotted In Airport
Little Aaradhya Bachchan, who recently flew to Bhopal with her parents Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan and grandparents Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, was spotted in her mom's arms as she arrived back into the city.
Katrina Kaif's Hot Photoshoot For Vogue Magazine December 2013
The Hot Katrina Kaif is featured on the cover of Vogue India for the month of December 2013. Like always, Katrina manages to look stunning in almost every outfit she wears.
2013 has been a rather sluggish year for Katrina Kaif who, it seems, was left trailing far behind Bollywood's golden girl of the moment, Deepika Padukone.
Carving out time for pleasure may have seemed to put Katrina's career on the backburner. But a photoshoot for Vogue has given her accurately the shot in the arm that she needs at exactly the time that she needs it. The magazine also has tips on how to get a body for the dress that you want to wear.
Texas Life-Size Gingerbread House Sets New Guinness Record
The world’s largest gingerbread house has been erected on Texas A&M Traditions Club grounds, in Bryan, Texas. The 39,201.8 cubic-foot house set a Guinness World Record this year, and is helping raise funds for a local trauma center. It measures 60 feet by 42 feet and its tallest point rises 20.11 feet.
The idea for the house first came to Bill Horton, managing director of the Traditions Club, in September 2012. He was watching a Food Network special on gingerbread houses at the time. At first he thought he could get the house done by November, but soon understood that it would take a lot more work. That’s when the project got postponed to this year.
“Everybody got excited that we were trying to do this,” he said. Ninety percent of all the raw materials were donated – from lumber to electrical supplies to constituents. Lots of people volunteered too. Club members, bakers and locals joined hands to create the home.
Visitor fees are $2 for children and $3 for adults. Several people have made generous donations too, raising the total collections to $150,000 in the first week.
If you’re watching your weight this Christmas, you probably don’t want to make a trip to this house. The 36 million-calorie structure is bound to rekindle your cravings!
Thursday 5 December 2013
Mandela's Death Announced As Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Watch the Autobiography Of Mandela - "Long Walk To Freedom"
Royals, celebrities and members of Nelson Mandela's family attended the UK premiere of the biographical film of his life - oblivious to the fact the man it was about had died only hours earlier.
Mandela's death was announced in South Africa as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge sat down to watch the screening of Long Walk To Freedom, the movie based on his autobiography.
The news, which was revealed on television in an address to the nation by South Africa's current president, Jacob Zuma, was then passed on to stunned guests after the credits had rolled. A two minutes' silence was then held in the West End cinema. Speaking from the Odeon Leicester Square, Prince William said: 'I just wanted to say it's very sad and tragic news. 'We were just reminded what an extraordinary and inspiring man Nelson Mandela was. My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. It's very sad.'
The Royal couple looked ashen-faced as they walked down the stairs into the foyer. Shortly after they left, shocked members of the audience began emerging from the cinema, in silence at first. It was not clear what had happened to Mandela's daughter, Zindzi. She had seemed jovial and relaxed walking the red carpet outside in Leicester Square before the premiere started but inside, as William and Kate met dignitaries, she seemed to be overcome.
Nelson Mandela Dies at 95
Mandela's death came approximately five months after he was admitted to hospital with a lung infection. Despite being allowed to return home three months ago, South Africa's first black president has not been able to move from a bedroom described as being a 'virtual 24 hour intensive care unit' and has needed a ventilator to breath
Rumors of Mr Mandela's increasing discomfort started socializing in the early afternoon Wednesday as increasing numbers of Mandela family members arrived at the former president's large Johannesburg home.
South Africa's president Jacob Zuma announced the long-expected death in a special television broadcast last night. Mr Zuma said: 'Our nation has lost its greatest son.'
'What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.
Scientists Resolve the Mystery behind the Spitting of Archer fish
Research has shown that the animal is able to impulsively take into account light refraction and other physics principles such as the Plateau–Rayleigh instability to be one of the most accurate hunters in the natural world.
The aptly named archerfish employs a unique process to hunt land based insects and small animals – it aims, spits, and stuns. It prowls under the surface of the water, waiting for unsuspecting insects to land nearby. Then, it spits out water jets at a great force, instantly killing the prey. The entire process takes just one-tenth of a second. The archerfish, a species made up of 7 fish that belong to the genus Toxotes, is able to spurt water at its prey with unbelievable speed and accuracy. Cleverer still is the fish’s aim, as the tiny creature takes into account the way light bends as it enters water.
An archerfish can bring down insects as far as three meters above the water’s surface. Once it selects the prey, it alternates its eyes so that the prey’s image falls on a particular part of the eye. Then it presses its tongue against the groove on the roof of its mouth to form a narrow channel, and contracts its gill covers to issue a powerful jet of water through the channel. The power of this shot can be altered for prey of diverse sizes. The jet can be up to five meters long.
Surprisingly, research has showed that the force of the water that hits the insects is much higher than the force at which it leaves the archerfish. Which means the water gains speed, instead of losing it. This is reverse to how a ball or bullet behaves when it is fired.
For years, scientists believed the archerfish had specific internal muscles or organs that helped it spit very hard. But thanks to research done by physicists from the University of Milan, we now know that this isn’t the case. In fact, the fish’s forceful strike is formed externally, using water dynamics.
South Korean TV Show Transforms Twin Sisters into Gorgeous Dolls
A pair of twin sisters who were deemed “too ugly” was lucky enough to get sponsored to go under the knife by the show. The twins honestly didn’t look so bad, but they could have had some dental work done. However, the doctors on the show transformed them into “new and improved” twins, who are still identical but look totally different from who they were before.
Lately, South Koreans have been making news for their obsession with plastic surgery. Images of this year’s Miss Korea pageant showed all 20 finalists looking just the same. A 2012 report by The Economist states that South Korea has the highest rate of cosmetic surgery per capita. 20 percent of women in Seoul between the ages of 19 and 49 admit to having had some kind of beauty ‘enhancement’.
It must be an overwhelming experience to go through such a drastic change. Every time the twins look in the mirror, it must freak them out. They seem happy, but I do hope they realize that their kids are going to look nothing like the new them.
Wednesday 27 November 2013
Unusual Road Eruption Accident in Russia Ekaterinburg
Drivers who criticize about potholes in the road may now count themselves lucky after a driver had a narrow escape when the road erupted in front of him.
Like a scene out of a Hollywood disaster movie, the road rose into the air in front of an SUV driver who was speeding up to a red light. The video, shot in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovskaya Oblast, Russia, has been viewed more than 40,000 times online.
A dashboard camera caught the moment the road surface was shot into the air by the explosion. The video, dated Thursday, shows the car slowing down for a red light when the SUV driver overtakes on the outside, only for the van to bang into the road rubble. It erupts into three large pieces, sending a cloud of dust into the air.
A second car only missed it by moments when the driver turned right hardly seconds earlier. Experts who have seen the footage believe it was caused by an exploding gas main. Howard Robinson, chief executive of the Road Surface Treatments Association, who has seen the video, said: 'It looks like a gas main has exploded. If it was a water main we would see water gushing upwards.'
In the clip the clearly stunned SUV driver can be seen getting cautiously out of his car as the hazard lights flash. Some have speculated online that the eruption was caused by a burst underground sewer or underground air pressure. Others have joked the explosion was intentionally carried out to stop the driver running the red light. One person posted on Live Leak: 'In Russia cops don't stop you for running a light, the road does'.
Another user wrote: 'Car driver wanted to run the red light, red light did stop him immediately.' However, other views have put forward an even more melodramatic explanation. One called Strymerx asked: 'Is this a new movie of Godzilla?'
Australian Family Sets New Guinness Record with Over Half a Million Christmas Light Installation
His family vowed to take regain the title this Christmas - so installed more than 31 miles of wire with 502,165 lights, glowing reindeer and loud music around their suburban home, to the frustration of some neighbors. Guinness World Records confirmed the family's charity feat has officially the most Christmas lights on a residential property.
Some of the Richards’ neighbors are very upset and haven’t spoken to the family since 2011. But most of them love the dazzle and come to visit from numerous miles away. David says, “I have always loved Christmas. Having the Christmas lights with the community coming in and sharing it is a time when you get to know people you perhaps should know better, I guess.”
Of course, putting up so many lights would mean a enormous electric bill. It comes up to about $2,200 a month, an amount that the local power company has been generous enough to donate. The Richards hosts a charity event open to the public, and the proceeds go to children’s charities that fight Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In 2011 they had 70,000 visitors and collected about $70,000. This year David wants to up the amount to $90,000. “It actually helps a lot of families who have put up with an amazing amount of grief. That makes it all worthwhile to me,”
David lives in the suburb of Forrest with his wife Janean, 13-year-old son Aidan and daughters Caitlin, 10, and Madelyn, 6. It took them a month to put up all the lights – they started in October and worked every weekend since. Thankfully they didn’t have to physically count all the lights. Delivery records and invoices helped with that. The lights aren’t just meant for Christmas, they’re also meant to party his wife’s cousin’s wedding this Saturday.
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