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.

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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!

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Aaradhya and Mom Aishwarya Spotted at Bachchan's Family Wedding

It Seems like Abhishek Bachchan genuinely rubbished rumors of Aishwarya Rai and Jaya Bachchan's tiff. Only a day after he did so the 'Happy Bachchan Family' was spotted bonding together at a relative's wedding in Bhopal.

Jaya Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Aaradhya Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Big B, the entire Bachchan clan joined the wedding together in Bhopal. Aishwarya and Jaya even shared the stage together to pose for photographs. In this picture, its little Aaradhya who's wrapped everyone around her little finger. The toddler, who looks certainly cute in a red dress, seems to be listening intently to what her mom and granny are saying even as Big B, Abhishek and their relatives look on.

Amitabh Bachchan shared these photos on his profiles for social networking sites Twitter and Facebook.

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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.

 

 One of Mandela's daughters, Zindzi Mandela, was also present in the audience, while another, Zenani, had just left having seen the movie before. William and Kate were informed of his death subtly by an aide shortly before the end of the film.

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.

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Nelson Mandela Dies at 95

Nelson Mandela has died at his home in Johannesburg, South Africa aged 95. The anti-apartheid icon died at 12:50pm EST surrounded by close family.

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.

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Scientists Resolve the Mystery behind the Spitting of Archer fish

A species of fish that has a killer aim uses physics to chase for its prey, according to scientists. Archerfish lurk under the surface of water before spitting to hit unsuspecting insects that have landed nearby, which when hit, fall to their death to provide the fish with food.

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.

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Alexey Kljatov Photographs Stunning Close-Ups of Snowflakes

As fascinating as macro photography is, most of us think we can’t do it because it needs specialized equipment. Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov, however, is an inspiration to aspiring amateur photographers everywhere – he created a home-made rig capable of capturing stunning close-up pictures of snowflakes out of old camera parts, boards, screws and tape. His pictures give us an enchanting close-up view of snowflakes that we could never hope for without specialized equipment.

He captures most of the snowflakes on the basic studio on his balcony - comprising a sheet of glass balancing on the legs of an upturned stool. Mr Kljatov, from Moscow, often points an LED torch at the glass from underneath to provide lighting. Some of the darker images have been taken using natural light and woolen fabric placed underneath the glass.

Mr Kljatov takes his pictures using a 12.1MP Canon PowerShot A650, along with his customized add-ons. Given that he once used a plastic bottle to steady his camera, with pictures taken in the camera's macro mode, his new setup looks sophisticated. But it just entails a lens taken from an antiquated USSR Zenit SLR camera strapped to his camera and the aforementioned aids.

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South Korean TV Show Transforms Twin Sisters into Gorgeous Dolls

Plastic surgery in South Korea is a whole norm in their culture’s circumstances and while it’s usually for enhancing their flawed features for the better, a South Korean TV show called Let’s Beauty focuses on the people who really needs it; i.e. the people who feel ‘too ugly’ over their whole appearance to be confident in life.

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.

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