HONG KONG: The giant inflatable rubber duck which has attracted tens of thousands of visitors since it sailed into Hong Kong two weeks ago was reduced to a sad deflated disc Wednesday in the city’s harbour.Duck mania has gripped Hong Kong since its arrival, with locals and tourists flocking ...

    LEOMINSTER,UK TS A MADCAP gardener has spent three years and £20,000 buildingBritain’s biggest water-powered cuckoo clock - which is the size of a HOUSE. Dedicated Richard Pim, 72, constructed the 25ft-tall clock tower which houses a 3ft wooden bird which pops out every ...

HONG KONG - AFP - An inflatable rubber duck six storeys high sailed into Hong Kong harbour on Thursday to the cheers of hundreds of people who gathered to watch the classic bathtime-inspired artistic creation.The bright yellow 16.5-metre-tall (54-feet) Rubber Duck, conceived by Dutch artist ...

JARRANWALA  -  PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said Saturday his party made Pakistan nuclear power and if voted to power in May 11 elections it would turn the country into economic giant. Addressing a public meeting here‚ he said the country could march on the road of prosperity only if ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz [PML-N] leader Nawaz Sharif has said that his party made Pakistan nuclear power and if given chance in May 11 elections it will turn the country into economic giant.Addressing a public meeting at Jarranwala on Saturday‚ he said the country can march on the road of ...

HAMPSHIREDMA SIX-legged, 1,900kg all-terrain walking robot has been created by a designer in Hampshire.Matt Denton, from Winchester, believes that his six-legged ‘Mantis’ is the biggest, all-terrain operational hexapod robot in the world. It is powered by a 2.2 litre turbo diesel engine ...

CENTURION - Pakistan fast bowler M Irfan took four wickets in a devastating opening spell to set up a six-wicket win in the second one-day international against South Africa on Friday. Tall left-armer Irfan took a career-best four for 33 in seven overs as South Africa were bowled out for 191 in a ...

A GIANT Burmese python has been babysitting a 13-year-old boy. The 15ft snake is the pet to a Chinese family, The Sun reports.Azhe Liu, from Dongguan, Guangdong province, was born six years after his dad Chan Liu brought home a python egg and hatched it. Chan explained: "I'd always thought them the ...

A GIANT snowman has gone Gangnam Style after a 20ft-tall ice sculpture of K-Pop rapper Psy was unveiled in China.It seems the world just can’t get enough of the South Korean singer-songwriter, who conquered the globe in 2012 with his annoyingly catchy hit.The snowman is located in the city of ...

SANTA’S got a new sleigh - and it’s got room for ten.Rudolph may have been rendered redundant by this seven-engined, four-wheeled, 24.5ft long Santa transporter. The brainchild of Steve ‘Doc’ Hopkins, it is actually a history of motorcycle company Harley-Davidson on wheels. ...

ULAN BATOR - Deep in the heart of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia amid a landscape of sand dunes and ice canyons, one of the world’s biggest copper mines is about to come on stream.Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto and Canada’s Turquoise Hill Resources have jointly led construction of the ...

COLOMBO - India and Australia hope to avoid adding to the list of great limited-overs upsets when they open their World Twenty20 campaigns against Afghanistan and Ireland on Wednesday.In a potentially sensational double-header at Colombo's Premadasa stadium, George Bailey's Australia take on ...

BARISTAS can hardly espresso their joy, after making the world’s biggest-ever cappuccino in a 2,000 litre (440 gallon) mug.More than 1,000 trained baristas worked around the clock using 22 coffee machines for the record bid in Zagreb, Croatia.A group of helpers filled the giant mug cup by cup ...

ONE of the sweetest Guinness World Records has been surpassed after a confectionery company in the US created the world’s largest lollipop.The massive 7,000-pound chocolate lolly, made by Sees Candies, has been on display at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco, with passers-by amazed by the ...

A WHALE prepares to clamp its jaws around a shoal of sardines in this remarkable underwater image. Underwater photographer Doug Perrine travelled to Mexico’s Baja Peninsula to photograph the magnificent 50-foot-long Bryde’s whale. Scientists know so little about them that the numbers, ...

A giant paper aeroplane has been released into the skies in the US. The 45ft model with a 24ft wingspan was towed 4,000ft into the sky by a helicopter before being released. It flew through the sky, reaching speeds of up to 90 miles per hour for six seconds before landing again near the Pima Air ...

The giant asteroid Vesta possesses many features usually associated with rocky planets like Earth, according to data from a Nasa probe.Vesta has been viewed as a massive asteroid, but after studying the surface in detail, scientists are describing it as “transitional”. The Dawn ...

A chicken surprised her owners by laying a massive egg four times larger than normal. Popples, a two-year-old Rhode Island Red, laid the supersize egg measuring 5ins high, 8ins round and weighing 6.6 ounces.Schoolgirl Harriet Whitaker, 8, discovered the egg when she made her daily check of the ...

KARACHI - In the backdrop of 3G conundrum, a recent development at VimpelCom, the global cellular giant that runs its Telecom companies around the world, has made local scenario topsy-turvy.As per details, Telenor Group last week bought 234,000,000 VimpelCom preferred shares. The move is aimed at ...

VANCOUVER  - Measured by environmental impact, a humble shrimp cocktail could be the most costly part of a typical restaurant meal, scientists said Friday.If the seafood is produced on a typical Asian fish farm, a 100-gram (3.5 ounce) serving “has an ecosystem carbon footprint of an ...

A Chinese mechanic quit his job to create a larger-than-life bike for his cartoon-obsessed son. Zhang Yali, 49, from Jilin City, started the bike three months ago as a surprise gift for his son Zhang Wenzhong. He said he son was a cartoon fanatic who majored in animation at university, and works as ...

LONG BEACH, California (AFP) - Excited, nervous, terrified - just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying weightless flight all for the cause of science, naturally. The 30 classroom professionals donned blue astronaut jumpsuits to defy gravity in the skies above ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) A massive crack is growing wider in the Antarctic ice sheet and could break apart in the coming months, forming an iceberg the size of New York City, NASA scientists warned on Thursday. The crack in western Antarcticas Pine Island Glacier stretches for at least 18 miles (30 ...

ROME (AFP) - Italian director Ettore Scola, remembered for films such as A Special Day and We All Loved Each other So Much, announced Monday he was putting an end to his directing career at the age of 80. He said in an interview with the Il Tempo newspaper published on Monday that he felt too old ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - A giant new Russian space telescope on Saturday unfurled its dish-like antenna which will observe radio waves from galaxies and black holes billions of light years away. The operation to deploy the 10-metre-diameter antenna of the Spketr-R telescope, which was launched into orbit on ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - The public and social circles of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad have expressed their immense concern over giant billboards, installed by different companies and traders along main roads and in congested localities. The people underlined that these dangerously ...

The public and social circles of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad have expressed their immense concern over giant billboards, installed by different companies and traders along main roads and in congested localities. The people underlined that these dangerously hanging billboards along ...

STANDING at nearly 43 inches tall from paw to shoulder and weighing a staggering 245lbs could this be the worlds new tallest dog? Pictured here in the parks of Tuscon, Arizona, George, a four-year-old blue great dane, looks more like a miniature horse than a dog. The gentle giant, who measures 7ft ...

THE NASA/ESAs Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of NGC 7049, a mysterious looking galaxy on the border between spiral and elliptical galaxies. NGC 7049 is found in the constellation of Indus, and is the brightest of a cluster of galaxies, a so-called Brightest Cluster Galaxy ...

WHEN Kevin Richardson decided to cool off in the sweltering South African heat he was joined by an unlikely swimming partner - a giant lioness. But before you fear a bloody ending, don't... because these two are good friends. Zoologist and animal behaviourist Kevin, 34, raises and interacts with ...