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.”
March 9, 2010 – 2:43 pm
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Conjoined twins Emma and Taylor Bailey strike a pose at home in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Bailey twins share a heart and a liver, when they were born they were only expected to live for 15 minutes.
Doctors told the couple, who have six children, that their lungs would rush their heart from the moment they took their first breath and it would kill them. But the girls survived and are now three-years-old.
The girls are fused from their breastbone to their bellybutton, but despite being fused together, they’re developing their own personalities.
Their mother Mandy says: “Emma prefers to look at books and do puzzles, and Taylor would rather have a stuffed toy and play with building blocks. They are developing funny adorable little traits, for example Emma is picky, and Taylor will eat anything.”
But the Bailey family face a terrible dilemma, as the girls get bigger there is more strain on their heart, but separating then would almost certainly result in death for one of the two.
That said, their parents say separation won’t be considered unless both the girls will survive and be healthy.
March 9, 2010 – 12:55 am
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A Chinese man caused part of a city to be without power for four hours — when he performed a high wire act on power cables.
Xiang Jun, 26, of Dongguan, Guangdong province, danced and walked on the high voltage cables for four hours before finally jumping down to a giant air cushion.
Friends said he had been drinking and had been angry about recently losing his job.
“He was invited to a lunch, and drank a lot, and then he climbed onto the tower,” said one friend.
Firefighters arrived within five minutes of him climbing a mast and getting on to the cables — but could not talk him down.
Instead they ordered power to be cut off — so he could not electrocute himself — and arranged for the air cushion to be brought in.
“We had to hold the safety cushion underneath him and keep walking with him all the time as he could have fallen at any moment,” said one fireman.
Doctor Yuan, at WanJiang Hospital where Xiang was taken afterwards, said he was unhurt but was suspected of suffering from depression.
Police are still investigating the incident and it is not yet known whether Xiang will face charges.
March 8, 2010 – 3:30 am
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Children from Brighton’s Hertford Infant School watch as 16 000 balls cascade down the steep street outside their school on Thursday (March 4) in Brighton, England.
The stunt was inspired by last year’s award-winning commercial for Sony TVs, set in San Francisco, which used 250 000 balls.
This time around it was part of a promotion for the Brighton and Hove Children’s Festival, which starts in April.
The children were rewarded with as many free balls as they could gather and a free ice cream.
March 4, 2010 – 10:59 pm
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Skyaker Miles Daisher gives the thumbs up as he “skyaks” out of an aeroplane over Florida.
Danger man Daisher casts a bizarre image paddling across the sky — 13,000 feet up in a kayak!
The daredevil has turned extreme sport skydiving on its head after deciding to jump out of a plane in equipment normally used only in water — giving birth to “skyaking.”
His barmy spin on the risky hobby means anyone looking up will draw a blank when they ask: “Is it a bird? Is it a plane?”
But the answer will become clear when crazy Miles swoops in at 50 mph and lands on the water in spectacular fashion.
The unbelievable antics of the 40-year-old, from Twin Falls, Idaho, are set to explode onto the worldwide silver screen in a sensational new 3D film on skydiving, base jumping, wingsuit flying and skyaking.
March 4, 2010 – 10:50 pm
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Tang Baihu, a white tiger at Yancheng Zoo, strikes a pose in Changzou, eastern China’s Jiangsu province, China.
The zoo is trying to find Tang a Mrs. Right before mating season in the spring.
Tang accidentally killed his wife, Meng Ya, also a white tiger, in October 2008 during a failed mating session.
According to Xu Yihai, a spokesman for the zoo, “He cornered his wife, forcing her to mate with him, but got refused. Unexpectedly he roared and bit his wife on the back.”
Meng Ya died soon after being rescued out due to spine and nerve damage.
The white tiger is an endagered species — only around 200 tigers exist, scattered in a few countries, like America, India, Britain, and China, so the zoo has launched a worldwide campaign to find Tang a wife.
