March 10, 2010 – 10:20 pm
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British artist
Antony Gormley is breaking America with a debut showing of public art in Manhattan.
Thirty-one life-sized cast iron and fibreglass sculptures of Gormley are to be erected in some prominent locations around the city.
The first statue was erected on March 09 and they will be up until May 15.
Twenty-seven casts of the naked artist will be placed on rooftops and other high spots near landmarks such as the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and the New York Life Building.
The English sculptor, 60, is best known for this giant outdoor sculpture the Angel of the North, in Gateshead UK and a series of figures called Another Place displayed on Crosby Beach near Liverpool.
March 10, 2010 – 2:43 pm
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38-year-old Gong Anxiang magically survived a free fall of 30 meters after mistaking the door for the lift shaft on the 10th floor as the door for a toilet cubicle in the middle of a relative’s wedding last month in China.
“During the meal, he went to the toilet but never came back,” said Gong’s wife.
She started to call her husband from 2:30 pm, but got no reply. “Only at around 6:00 pm, he answered the phone, but without any words, he made some groaning noises like he was in pain.”
An hour later he answered and said he was in the kitchen, and friends found Gong lying in the lift shaft.
Gong said he went to the toilet but the both cubicles were occupied, so he opened another door opposite the toilet and walked in, but instead of stepping into another cubicle, Gong dropped down the cable shaft down to the basement floor.
The hotel said they’ll take full responsibility for the incident.
Doctors at the local People’s Hospital were surprised by Gong’s minor injuries, as he only fractured his left ankle and had a few cuts and bruises on his forehead, belly and right hand and foot.
Doctors suspect that Gong’s miracle survival is due to the cushioning effect from the entangling cables.
March 10, 2010 – 1:49 pm
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A fearless diver off Guadeloupe Island, Mexico stares into the jaws of death as he fends off a Great White shark, pushing its snout, then putting his hand in its mouth.
via: Don Carpenter/National
March 10, 2010 – 11:57 am
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Armed robbers who broke into a home in Los Angeles were thwarted away by a 7-year-old boy who locked himself into a bathroom and called 911.
While the three suspects were busy holding the boy’s parents and younger sister at gunpoint Tuesday morning, they were unaware that the boy was also in the house — before it was too late.
“There’s some guy who’s going to kill my mom and dad,” he tells the 911 operator. “Bring cops. A lot of them … And bring soldiers too.”
The gunmen apparently overheard the conversation and broke into the bathroom, as indicated by the boy’s scream as they took the phone. But they fled quickly when he told them he had called 911.
March 9, 2010 – 10:57 pm
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A nail which has been removed from a man’s kidney, where it had been for 20 years, at the Henan Provincial Coal General Hospital in Zhengzhou, central China’s Henan province.
Gao, 41, was sent to hospital for emergency treatment after passing out. CAT scans showed that Gao had a metal object in his left kidney.
Doctors had to remove part of Gao’s left kidney to get rid of the 12cm long, 0.2cm in diameter nail, as the rusty nail has contaminated it.
The nail got into his body 20 years ago when Gao had an accident when he worked as a home decorator.
“A nail flew at me and cut an opening on my belly, he says. “I just simply sterilized the wound and it healed up itself.”
Doctor explained a membrane formed around the nail over time which prevented the nail from penetrating even deeper, but over the years the deeply implanted nail caused Gao to have hydronephrosis and high blood pressure.
Gao is now recovering from the surgery in the hospital.
March 9, 2010 – 9:17 pm
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A 101-year-old Chinese woman is growing devil-like horns out of her forehead.
The picture is no trick — a genuine horn measuring six centimetres is protruding from Zhang Ruifang’s head and a second is beginning to grow on the other side.
Ruifang lives in the small village Linlou in the Henan province in China. The mother-of-seven discovered a patch of rough skin on her forehead a year ago.
“We didn’t pay too much attention to it,” says her youngest son Zhang Guozheng. But within a short amount of time, a brown horn grew from his mother’s forehead. “It is now six cm long,” adds the 60-year-old. And as if that wasn’t enough: “Now something is also growing on the right side of her forehead. It’s quite possible that it’s another horn.”
