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Acid attack victim, Katie Piper, can see again

February 6, 2012

Katie Piper arriving at The TV Choice Awards 2011 in the UK and right, with Lisa Faulkner at a London awards ceremony honouring inspirational women in 2012. Photo: AAP / Getty Images Surgeons in Britain have restored the sight of a woman blinded after having acid thrown in her face in an attack arranged...
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Missing wedding ring found on carrot 16 years after it was lost

January 4, 2012

A WOMAN has miraculously found her white gold wedding ring on a carrot in her garden – 16 years after it disappeared. Lena Paahlsson of Sweden took the white gold ring off while baking with her daughters during Christmas 1995, but it vanished from the kitchen counter where she had put it. The family...
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Bracelet reveals amazing craftsman’s skill from 7500BC (so good it couldn’t be bettered today)

December 26, 2011

Polished skills: The obsidian bracelet contains remarkable detail

A 9,500-year-old bracelet has been analysed using the very latest computers – and the results show that it is so intricate even today’s craftsmen would struggle to improve it. Researchers from the Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes in Istanbul and Laboratoire de Tribologie et de Dynamiques des Systèmes studied the bracelet’s surface and its micro-topographic...
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‘World’s oldest’ yoga teacher a spritely 91-years-old

December 23, 2011

Bernice Bates, 91, is the world's oldest yoga teacher, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Picture: AP

BERNICE Bates is 91 years old and more flexible than people a third of her age. Guinness World Records recently awarded her title of Oldest Yoga Teacher. While there might be other, older yogis, Ms Bates, completed the lengthy documentation process required by Guinness. Her daughter nominated her earlier this year. Ms...
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Indiana Jones missed the REAL Mayan skull – it’s not crystal, and it’s shaped like a monkey

November 20, 2011

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By ROB WAUGH The ‘crystal skulls’ relics of ancient American civilisations have all been exposed as fakes – but a Mayan carved skull appears to be the real thing. Not only that, experts believe the relic – buried along with its owner between 250AD and 600AD – may have been a replica of a ‘hand...
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Minhaj Gedi Farah becomes face of hope from the famine

November 11, 2011

Then-seven-month old Minhaj Gedi Farah weighed 3.1kg when he first arrived in the Dadaab refuge camp in Kenya. Picture: AP WHEN the world first bothered to notice the famine sweeping east Africa, one child seemed to appear in media outlets everywhere. HE’S truly one of the lucky ones. Minhaj Gedi Farah was seven months...
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Internet ‘weighs the same as a strawberry’

November 5, 2011

The entire internet weighs as much as a strawberry, calculates YouTube science show Vsauce. But if you’re only counting the data, not the electricity required to make it work, the whole lot weighs far far less A mathematician recently calculated that eBook readers ‘gain weight’ when you add new books to your library –...
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Real ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ wins big on quiz

October 28, 2011

Sushil Kumar (left) with Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, shows $1 million check after winning on an Indian game show. (AAP)

A computer operator who earns just $130 a month has become the first person to win the $1 million top prize on the Indian version of the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? television quiz. Sushil Kumar, 27, from the impoverished eastern state of Bihar, scooped 50 million rupees on “Kaun Banega Crorepati?” during...
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14 year old boy lives playboy lifestyle after scamming banks

October 24, 2011

A woman is suing Australias big four banks for their alleged role in a scam her son masterminded / File

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy who masterminded a massive money laundering scam splashed out $200,000 on shopping sprees, luxury holidays and pamper sessions.The NSW teen funded his celebrity lifestyle by selling fictitious products on eBay from 2007 – at one stage, earning more than $6000 a day. The then 14-year-old went on a string of shopping...
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Woman Hasn’t Used Money in 15 Years

October 24, 2011

Heidemarie Schwermer, a 69-year-old woman from Germany, gave up using money 15 years ago and says she’s been much happier ever since. Heidemarie’s incredible story began 22 years ago, when she, a middle-aged secondary school teacher emerging from a difficult marriage, took her two children and moved to the city of Dortmund, in Germany’s...
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