Russian schoolboy claims to have powers like X-Men’s Magneto He got up one morning as a human magnet following electric shock When he woke up, he realised coins had stuck to his body overnight Nikolai Kryaglyachenko now wants to be a superhero when he’s older A schoolboy who was almost killed when knocked out by a massive electric shock now claims the accident gave him superpowers like those of X-Men’s […]

Lima, Peru: Frogs from Peru’s Lake Titicaca are the main ingredient in a juice blend that some Andean cultures believe has the power to cure asthma, bronchitis, sluggishness and a low sex drive. To make the mix, which is sold in Peru’s Andes and also at some stands in its capital Lima, vendor Maria Elena Cruz grabs a frog from a small aquarium then kills it by beating it on […]

Extremely low levels of radioactive cesium-134 have been detected about 100 miles off the coast of Eureka in northern California, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) revealed. The unexpected traces have reached the California coast as a result of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant  meltdown that occurred following the earthquake that hit Japan in March of 2011.Workers were unable to cool the reactors which eventually exploded, leaking […]

Baby boy born with eight limbs cause panic in the streets of India Locals believe the deformed boy is a reincarnation of a Hindu god The deformity on the child, named God Boy, is an underdeveloped twin A baby boy born with four arms and four legs is causing panic in the streets of Baruipur, east India, as locals believe he is the reincarnation of a god. The child has […]

Bengaluru-based internet company Edureka (Brain4ce Education Solutions Private Limited) has emerged as the fastest growing tech company in India with a 2768 per cent revenue growth over the last three years, according to a report by global consultancy Deloitte. The report – The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2014 – ranked 50 of the fastest growing technology companies in India based on their revenue growth rate over the last three […]

What started as a trickle of oil-pipeline protesters two months ago has spilled into a massive anti-Kinder-Morgan movement on Burnaby Mountain, if Monday night’s crowd is any indication. More than 800 people showed up at 4pm – the exact time a B.C.-Supreme-Court-ordered-Kinder-Morgan injunction took effect. It is now illegal for protesters to interfere with the company’s controversial pipeline survey work for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.  The RCMP were everywhere, […]

Forced to pick cotton, grow cannabis, prostitute themselves, fight wars or clean up after the wealthy — some 35.8 million people are currently trapped in modern-day slavery, a new report said Monday. The 2014 Global Slavery Index (GSI), in its second annual report, said new methods showed some 20 percent more people were enslaved across the world than originally thought. “There is an assumption that slavery is an issue from […]

Karma is the Sanskrit word for action. It is equivalent to Newton’s law of ‘every action must have a reaction’. When we think, speak or act we initiate a force that will react accordingly. This returning force maybe modified, changed or suspended, but most people will not be able eradicate it. This law of cause and effect is not a punishment, but is wholly for the sake of education or […]

London: As many as 80 million bacteria are transferred during a 10-second kiss, says a new study, adding that at least nine intimate kisses per day could lead to couples sharing similar communities of oral bacteria. “Intimate kissing involving full tongue contact and saliva exchange appears to be a courtship behaviour unique to humans. We wanted to find out the extent to which partners share their oral microbiota. It turns […]

The most “complicated” handmade watch in the world has been sold at auction for an historic $24.4 million. The Henry Graves Supercomplication timepiece, made by the luxury watchmaker Patek Philippe in 1933 for the prominent banker Henry Graves, was sold at Sotheby’s in Switzerland. The sale smashed the world record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction, which was previously held by the same watch. In 1999, it […]