Ricky the poodle is a champion winner at Crufts 2014 He goes through a four hour process of primping to get ready Three hours of this are spent drying and combing Ricky’s fur Owner Jason Lynn performs most of the cleaning and prep Perhaps it’s the six pigtails streaming in the wind. Or the two mad pompoms bobbing about on his muscular hind quarters as he prances through the […]
To show how alcohol and drugs affect a user’s appearance, a website called Recovery.org used mugsho ts to average the faces of male and female abusers of marijuana, alcohol, and meth. Is Weed Legal In DC? know today. For each face in the graphic below, 100 mugshots were merged together using software. To rule out the influence of race and age, only the mugshots of white drug and alcohol offenders between the ages […]
Translated letter provides first-hand account of the “unforgettable scenes where horror mixed with sublime heroism” as the Titanic sank. A harrowing first-hand account of the moment the Titanic sank has been uncovered in a letter purportedly from a French maid who survived the disaster. The letter, written in French and dated 8 August 1955 – more than 43 years since the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on […]
Editor’s note: CNN contributor Amanda Enayati ponders the theme of seeking serenity: the quest for well-being and life balance in stressful times. Follow her on Twitter or Facebook.(CNN) — New research shows that some students are doing more than three hours of homework a night — and that all that school work may be literally making them sick. It may be tempting to dismiss this latest research, conducted in upper-middle-class […]
The sooner you realize this, the happier you’ll be. You are now on your own and this should be embraced. We all make decisions, and we live with the outcomes of each decision. We seek individualism in creating our own identities, yet sometimes forget we are the only ones who can design these identities that are sought after. When we get comfortable, we often forget our instinctual adaptability skills. When […]
After five years in Beijing, Hannah Sanders and her husband Ben, both employed at Harrow School International in the Chinese capital, will be packing their bags in July and heading back to the UK. “We had originally planned on staying six years. But pollution tipped the balance” said the 34 year-old mother of two children including a newborn baby. “I don’t feel it’s safe for our two-year-old to play outside. […]
In Pic :An unidentified man with two Tibetan mastiffs after they were sold at a “luxury pet” fair in Hangzhou, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. One of the Tibetan mastiff puppies (L) was sold in China for almost $US2-million, a report said on March 19, in what could be the most expensive dog sale ever. BEIJING — A Chinese dog breeder said Thursday that a property developer paid him 18-million […]
The 54-year-old is suffering from a terminal cancer He’d spent much of his adult life working at the Dutch zoo The man, known only as Mario, asked that his hospital bed be wheeled into the giraffe enclosure so he could say goodbye One giraffe approached Mario, giving the dying man a kiss This is the touching moment a giraffe bid a sad farewell to a dying worker who’d spent […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Sailors aboard Norwegian cargo ship will search through the night, spokesman says Australia calls off surveillance flights until morning They are looking for objects spotted by a commercial satellite that could be Flight 370 wreckage Officials caution the objects may not be plane debris, but shipping containers or something else A day that began with high hopes ended with uncertainty late Thursday in Australia as darkness put an […]
Flood prevented children at a Vietnamese primary from getting to school One of the parents transported the entire class across in a plastic bag Man swam across river and children arrived safe and dry on the other side This parent is giving a whole new meaning to ‘school bag’ as he helps a class of primary pupils safely cross a river by taking them in a plastic bag. When the […]
