8.75 seconds. That’s all it took for this ‘speedcuber’ from Canada to solve the Rubik’s Cube – with just one hand. 16-year-old Antoine Cantin set a whole new world record at the Toronto Open, Fall 2014 competition. He beat his own record of 12.56 seconds set at the Toronto Open Spring 2014, competition in April 2014. Cantin’s 8.75 second feat was captured in this video posted on YouTube. The video […]
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis conferred sainthood on two Indians and four Italians on Sunday, praising their “creative” commitment to helping the poor. Francis added to the roster of Catholic saints a Keralan mystic nun, an Indian priest and social reformer, the former Bishop of Vicenza, and three members of the Franciscan order. “They responded with extraordinary creativity to the commandment of love of God and neighbour,” Pope Francis […]
A new Chinese song that has gone viral with more than 6 million views on YouTube since its release nearly a month ago, is being hailed as the next Gangnam Style. But, try listening to it once, and you will believe that Gangnam Style was actually sane, way more sane. This ‘chick chick’ song by artist Wang Rong Rollin may be catchy (We can already hear ourselves humming), but the […]
Islamabad: Global terrorist organisation al-Qaeda’s branch in the Indian sub-continent confirmed the death of one of its leaders, Adil Qudoos in a US drone attack. Qudoos was alleged to have helped senior al-Qaeda leader, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Xinhua reported. Kahlid was arrested in 2003 from the house of Ahmad Qudoos, the brother of Adil Qudoos, in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. The US had accused Kahlid of mass murder and […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
SAN FRANCISCO: The bull run in Microsoft’s stock this past year has helped the tech giant surpass Exxon Mobil and seize the rank of the second most valuable company, behind Apple Inc. Under new CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has worked to overcome its reputation as a clumsy behemoth struggling to keep up with new tech trends and consumer habits. Nadella has cut expenses — and jobs — while pledging to […]
World’s Tallest And Shortest Men Meet on Records Day in London London: The world’s tallest and shortest men came face to face — well, face to shin — on Thursday to celebrate the 10th annual Guinness World Records Day. The little and large act met as people across the globe tried to break all manner of weird and wacky world records, including banging heads, catching spears and throwing thongs. Turkey’s […]
