Trust the Chinese to do something quicker, faster and more efficiently. Worker bees that they are. So what the industrious Orientals have managed to do this time, is literally build ten one-storey houses in a DAY by using 3D printing technology. The 3D printers in question are massive, being10 meters (33 feet) wide and 6.6 […]
Wow. So a few things come to mind here: Ritual Satanic sacrifice or a bad acid trip being on the top of the list. Last Wednesday morning a pretty grizzly discovery was made in a vacant parking lot in Yonkers, New York. At least 25 dead cats which had been placed in plastic shopping bags […]
A rally of Kiev government supporters in eastern Ukraine devolved into a melee on Monday when the march was attacked by pro-Russia militants. Prior to the attack, the pro-Kiev marchers shouted “Donetsk is Ukraine” while waving Ukrainian flags. The marchers were making their way through the city of Donetsk when they were charged by attackers armed with baseball bats and fire-crackers.
You may have noticed that pretty much every photo of Kim Jong Un talking to someone involves Kim talking, and the other guy taking notes. What the heck is going on there?
Archaeologists have opened the coffin of Swedish king Erik IX, who was murdered in 1160, to examine his DNA. While that in itself is pretty awesome, the stuff they found inside his casket was better.
An attempted hijacking aboard a Virgin Australia flight bound for Bali has failed, with the plane successfully grounded by the pilots at the intended destination.
Moat of us think of the process of recording a world-class in-studio album as being, well, a lengthly process. Right? apparently not if your name is Jack White. In the most stupefying manner, it has come out that this prodigy did in fact write and record an entire album in 4 hours. This is in fact […]
Oh what people do for a taste of a bit of fame on the interwebs these days. Sigh. Stephen and Alysha McLaughlin, from Canada had a baby. It was a girl. So , as one does, they went online and asked the people of Earths internet-using community to put their heads together and name their bundle […]
A group of Loch Ness Monster enthusiasts say they’ve sighted the legendary Scottish beast via satellite images on Apple Maps, which is the same app that has a large portion of the internet dedicated to recording the many hilarious instances of its failure.
Four people are confirmed dead, and the death toll is expected to rise, with hundreds of passengers still missing after a ferry carrying close to 500 people capsized in South Korea. Dramatic footage showing the search and rescue effort by the South Korean coast guard has been released.
Expect to see a lot of over-compensation by poorly endowed men in Brooklyn on June 14, as the ‘Smallest Penis Contest’ is back in New York for the second year.
On Wednesday, a rapper affiliated with Wu-Tang Clan was taken to hospital after surviving a suicide attempt. He jumped off a second storey apartment balcony after cutting off his penis – for real.
That is correct. When your city is striving to provide you with only the best artisanal water that mother nature can provide, it is simply not acceptable to introduce hipster urine to the supply. This, from Time: The Portland Water Bureau got pretty pissed off when cameras caught 21-year-old Josh Seater from Molalla, Oregon, urinating […]
With a combined age of 25, a 12 year-old girl and her 13-year-old boyfriend have become Britain’s youngest parents. The father of the girl only found out four weeks ago that he was to become a grandfather. He admitted in an interview that he broke down with emotion when he heard the news.
In the market for an island? If you don’t mind ghosts, the occasional possession, a morbid back story and loads of corpses, this island just off of Venice, Italy, could be just the fixer-upper you’ve been looking for.
Two unattended backpacks, found at the Boston Marathon finish line, were detonated and one man arrested, on the one-year anniversary of the deadly bombing.
On Tuesday, more than a 100 girls were kidnapped from a secondary school in Nigeria’s Borno state. No one has since come forward to claim responsibility for the kidnappings but the militant group Boko Haram is suspected to be behind the events.
One thing that is for sure, is the insanely high speed of technological advancement of every-day items we use. For most of us in our early 30’s, it seems like only yesterday that we were jogging down the street with our Walk-Mansitched to our belts or even playing a cassette tape in our cars. We […]
We’ve all seen the North Korean leader’s hair cut – not really the pinnacle of style. UK hairdresser, Mo Nabbach, thought it would be funny to use Kim Jong-un’s hairstyle as an example of a bad hair day. We think it’s hilarious and so did everyone else, everyone except officials from the North Korean embassy.
While on a trip visiting her boyfriend’s family in South Africa, Katie Bryan had a huge surprise waiting for her back home in England – a bill from her mobile carrier for R45,000. All because she downloaded a Neil Diamond album.
Somewhere on the slopes of the Altai mountain range in western Mongolia, lives the most badass 13-year-old girl ever. She is most likely the only Kazakh huntress in training. Marvel at these stunning photographs of Ashol-Pan, hunting with her massive golden eagle.
Authorities believe that the missing flight MH370 lies somewhere on the floor of the Indian Ocean. An unmanned submarine will now be used in the search, in the general location where signals suspected to be from the aircraft’s black box have been picked up.
When Gareth Cliff announced his departure from 5FM, many people hoped it was but a April Fools’ joke. For those who have been having Gareth Cliff withdrawal, here’s the promo for his new venture.
In Japan you can buy almost anything from a vending machine – milk, bread, coffee, used panties – you name it. Now citizens in Colorado, USA, can get their weed fix straight from a vending machine.
The F1 legend has been in a medically induced coma since he suffered severe head injuries after a ski accident last December. His manager, Sabine Kehm has told media that Michael Schumacher is slowly recovering from his injuries.
Microsoft has recently shelved its famous operating system, Windows XP. Let’s take a trip down memory lane: here’s the story behind XP’s iconic default background, “Bliss.”
Normally people who hate their job leave that discussion for the bar or their spouse. This guy was so fed up with his job as a court room stenographer, he wrote “I hate my job” and other gibberish in 30 cases.
A Chinese firm, Shanghai Zendai Property, plan on building the next New York right next to Jo’burg. They plan to build an R84 billion city over the next 15 years just 8km away from OR Tambo International Airport. They hope it will become the future capital of Africa.
San Francisco’s very own vigilante is back for another instalment. Batkid took a break from thwarting evil doers and their plans to cause havoc in Gotham City. Batkid’s latest appearance has all eyes focussed on the five-year-old cancer survivor Miles Scott.
Ukraine’s political turmoil is far from over. A heated debate turned into a full blown fight in Ukraine’s parliament. Check out some footage from the punch up here.