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Classic vid for SAS
Garret McNamara has grabbed the world record for insanity big-wave surfing. And we got footage.
Hawaiian McNamara, 44, rode this monstrous wave off the coast of Portugal in November, and the ride caught the attention of YouTube to the tune of nearly 1.6 million hits.
Series of pics from around the world 14th May 2012.
The first one is the best
Manchester City became English champions for the first time since 1968 as they beat Queens Park Rangers 3-2 at the Etihad Stadium.
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LOLCATS, those adorable anthropomorphised images whose captions defy conventional rules of spelling and grammar, may actually be making us smarter.At least according to one boffin who has written an entire dissertation on the matter.
Graduate student Kate Miltner has been awarded the best masters degree ever from the London School of Economics for her paper on the appeal of LOLcats.
JUST how quirky can a skyscraper get?
We've already seen tall towers shaped like elephants and robots, but now a company is pushing the limits with another strange shape - a “hashtag” skyscraper. Exclamation mark!
The Cross Hash Tower will be built by Danish architects BIG in Seoul, South Korea as a gateway to the new Yongsan business district
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EITHER we aren't alone, or it's nigh time NASA fixed its dodgy cameras.
For the third time this year, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has returned an image of a giant UFO hovering near, or feeding off the Sun. Maybe.
Class or sheer arse?
Amazing kick even if you dont like footy
A CAT survived after it was tossed around inside a washing machine for almost two hours in Johannesburg, the South African newspaper The Star reported.
Karin Bennett, 63, heard meowing noises coming from close to her washing machine and began to search for her cat Tabitha.
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Meet Yohio, a 16-year-old Swedish boy who dresses like a doll, sounds like a man, speaks perfect Japanese, English and Swedish, and shreds guitar like nobody's business.
NASA has released a collection of stunning timelapse videos from the NASA International Space Station.
The dazzling images, set to the tune of Walking in the Air, provide a four-minute breathtaking look at the earth’s surface from the Expedition 30 crew on the Space Station.
Football fans get as excited watching a big game as they do during a night of passionate love-making, European researchers claim.
So that why SAS doesnt get any
JIM Marshall, the man whose guitar amplifiers earned him the nickname "the father of Loud", has died aged 88.
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NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission.
THERE are likely tens of billions of planets circling red dwarfs in our galaxy that may have the right conditions for sustaining life, according to a new estimate.
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WORRIED about whether Islamic verses on Facebook are allowed? Or that suicide bombers kill innocent civilians? Afghanistan's Taliban have set up a new question and answer section on their website to address such issues.
Oh this should be fun. What q would you ask?
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KAZAKHSTAN has demanded an apology from Kuwait after a spoof national anthem from Borat was played at a medal ceremony for its national shooting team.
After growing very slowly for most of human history, the number of people on Earth has more than doubled in the last 50 years. Where do you fit into this story of human life? Fill in your date of birth below to find out.
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Fires can't burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns can shoot. Modern ammunition contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that will trigger the explosion of gunpowder, and thus the firing of a bullet, wherever you are in the universe. No atmospheric oxygen required.
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People could be gliding up to space on high-tech elevators by 2050 if a Japanese construction company's ambitious plans come to fruition.
Tokyo-based Obayashi Corp. wants to build an operational space elevator by the middle of the century.
A GIANT storm is brewing under the sea off the coast of South Africa.
Snapped on December 26 by NASA's Terra satellite, the recently released image shows the incredible huge swirl of water estimated to stretch nearly 150km across.
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INTERNATIONAL astronomers say they have found the fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar system with temperatures that could support water and life.
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But Pink Floyd and Transformers fans aside, if you want to see what’s really on “the dark side of the moon”, NASA has released the first ever video footage that shows you.
The historic video was shot from NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft and the agency is set to provide the footage to students interested in exploring the lunar surface and environment of the moon.
Marr, most famously known as the guitarist with the Smiths but someone who has performed on albums by everyone from Beck and Pearl Jam to the Cribs and Modest Mouse, created a sound that shimmered and undulated. It was simultaneously transparent but filled with echo and delay and sonic trail vapors that all but defined the sound of Britpop in the 1980s. So many guitar players have emulated his sound — everyone from former Red Hot Chili Peppers member John Frusciante to Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood — that Fender finally saw fit to give him his own Signature guitar. After years of development, the Johnny Marr Jaguar has finally come out.
One for Burger Fred. A French fast food chain has revealed a promotional snack which really has gone to the Dark Side, a Star Wars-inspired burger with completely black buns.
Use the force Fred
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APPLE Inc has lost a trademark dispute in China, where it had accused Proview Technology (Shenzhen) of infringing on its iPad trademark.
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JAPAN has confirmed it plans to use some of the public funds earmarked for quake and tsunami reconstruction to boost security for its controversial annual whale hunt.
