Jupiter ‘swallowed up planet ten times size of Earth in massive collision’ By Niall Firth Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system because it swallowed up a smaller rival before it could grow any bigger, scientists believe. Studies of Jupiter have revealed that the giant planet has an extremely small core compared to its huge size. Even though Jupiter is more than 120 times bigger than Earth, measurements from spacecraft have revealed that it core weighs, at most, ten times that of our own planet. Jupiter may have gained its dominant position after crashing into a smaller planet … Continue reading Jupiter ate a super Earth?

Will we soon set watches to Mecca Mean Time? Giant £500million clock being built in Islamic holy city By Mail Foreign Service For over a century, an observatory in a south-east London park has been used as the reference point to set every watch on the globe. But Greenwich Mean Time is facing a challenge to its claims as the starting point for each new day. A giant new clock being built in the Islamic holy city of Mecca hopes to usurp the role of Greenwich Observatory, and aims to have the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims setting their watches by … Continue reading Saudi Arabian Clock strikes fear in Chavistan (Daily Mail)!

Let’s hear it for Luntik: The amazing cat with FOUR ears By Mail Online Reporter The brief Seventies craze for quadraphonic sound might have lasted a little longer if there were more cats like Luntik around. The three-month-old kitten who lives in a garage in Vladivostok, Russia, has a ‘spare’ pair of vestigial ears just in front of his real ones. It’s not a completely unique condition. There’s a cat called Yoda living in Chicago with an even bigger pair of spare lugholes. Two? Hah! I’ve got four… Luntik gives his reply to anyone who says he looks a bit … Continue reading Luntik – The Four Eared Kitten!

The moment a shark snapped back at scientist trying to photograph his ‘fin-gerprint’ By Mail Foreign Service A great white shark bites Michael’s camera as he tried to photograph it for his finprinting project in the sea off Dyer Island, South Africa This is the amazing moment a scientist got just a little too close to a shark he was trying to photograph – and the deadly predator attempted to eat his camera. Marine biologist Michael Scholl was documenting great white sharks off Dyer Island in South Africa when the hair-raising incident happened. Scholl is part of an international team … Continue reading Shark eats Steven Spielbergs camera

So what REALLY happened to the mother who claimed bus driver ordered her off for breastfeeding? By Daily Mail Reporter Doubts were raised tonight over the story of a young mother who claimed she was ordered off a bus by the driver for breastfeeding her six-week-old son. Lauren McKenna, 22, said she was forced to walk a mile home with son D’Marion after being told to ‘put them away or get off’ as she nursed the infant. But service operator Stagecoach said CCTV and sound recordings showed that no such exchange took place and robustly defended its staff member. Allegations: … Continue reading Did bus driver ordered mother off for breastfeeding?

Are we becoming addicted to Apple? Techno-junkies are flocking to the new London store, reports Damian Thompson. By Damian Thompson telegraph.co.uk 78 Comments The new Apple store in Covent Garden, London Photo: BLOOMBERG The new Apple Store in Covent Garden – a magnificently restored Palladian building dominated by a glass-covered courtyard – is designed to offer shoppers the most refined and beautiful retail experience in the world. But Terence, a middle-aged gentleman in wonky specs, sporting a scrappy beard and khaki shorts, wasn’t enjoying himself very much yesterday. That’s because he was 20 minutes late for his appointment at the … Continue reading Steve Jobs – Cult Leader!

US road painters write ‘SHCOOL’ outside North Carolina high school American road painters were left red-faced after they painstakingly inked the world “SHCOOL” outside a high school in North Carolina. telegraph.co.uk SHCOOL is painted along the newly paved road leading to Southern Guilford High School Photo: AP The road outside the Guilford county school had recently been re-paved, and road crews were ordered to mark the school zones last week. A spokesman for Traffic Markings, the contractor that painted the faulty sign, admitted that workers had “made a mistake” and said the sign would be fixed. Related Articles UK Pub … Continue reading ‘SHCOOL’

Tourism chiefs issue foreign etiquette advice ahead of London 2012 Not winking at holidaymakers from Hong Kong and the art of pouring wine for Argentinians are among official guidelines being issued to British businesses ahead of the Olympics. By Murray Wardrop telegraph.co.uk The Olympic Park in London: VisitBritain has issued etiquette advice to prevent Britons offending foreigners when they visit for the 2012 games Photo: EPA Tourism chiefs have drawn up a list of cultural differences to give Britons a crash course in not offending foreigners when they visit London for the 2012 games. Service industry workers are warned that … Continue reading Etiquette – London 2012

Mosque Mania: Anti-Muslim Fears and the Far Right by: Stephan Salisbury  |  TomDispatch | News Analysis Protesters in New York rallying against the “Mosque at Ground Zero” on June 19, 2010. (Photo: Robert Huffstutter) There is a distinct creepiness to the controversy now raging around a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan. The angry “debate” over whether the building should exist has a kind of glitch-in-the-Matrix feel to it, leaving in its wake an aura of something-very-bad-about-to-happen. It’s not just that opposition to the building has coalesced around a phony “Mosque at Ground Zero” shorthand (with its echoes of dust, death, … Continue reading Tea Party is Al Qaida?