Is there photographic proof of ghosts? CNN's Max Foster asks professor Richard Wiseman.
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Illusionist Floats In Mid-air
Peruvian magician Princess Inca leaves onlookers spellbound as she seemingly levitates in mid-air.
Claudia Pacheco, aka Princess Inca, drew a multitude of fans for the event staged in the central Plaza de Armas square in the coastal capital city of Lima.
Although Princess Inca doesn't reveal how she achieved the levitation, one way that illusionists perform this trick is to sit on a seat that is anchored by a rod that eventually connects to the pole.
The rod can be hidden under flowing clothing.
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Lights Go Out Across Planet For Earth Hour
Lights were going out across the world on Saturday as millions of homes and businesses in major cities went dark for one hour in a symbolic gesture to highlight concerns over climate change.
In Australia, floodlights of the Sydney Opera House were extinguished as the city's iconic harbor kicked off events for Earth Hour, a day-long energy-saving marathon stretching through 88 countries and 24 time zones.
The event's Web site reported that hundreds of people lined the harbour for a glimpse of the dimming skyline at 8:30 pm -- the local time that nearly 4,000 participating cities around the world were expected to switch off non-essential lights.
Sydney became the birthplace of the Earth Hour campaign in 2007 when 2.2 million turned off their lights, igniting a grass roots movement that has become a global phenomenon.
In China, illuminations at major buildings including the "Bird's Nest" Olympic Stadium and the Water Cube were extinguished as 20 cities joined in, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
Other landmarks around the world expected to join the World Wildlife Fund-sponsored event were the Egyptian pyramids, Vatican, Niagara Falls, the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building, the Acropolis in Athens and the Las Vegas casino strip.
Earth Hour events got off to an unofficial start in the remote Chatham Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean where locals switched off their diesel generators, organizers said. Shortly afterwards, 44 New Zealand cities and town joined in the event.
Organizers say they hope this year's event will send a message to world leaders meeting Copenhagen in December for a major summit on climate change.
"We are asking one billion people to take part in what is essentially the first global vote for action on climate change by turning off their lights for one hour and casting a vote for earth," said executive director Andy Ridley. cnn
Pizza Vending Machine
Italian designers unveil the 'Let's Pizza' vending machine.
Pizza can be bought from the machine for five euros, around 6 U.S dollars.
The device uses infra red rays and mechanised processes to make the dough, spread the topping and baking the pizza in a matter of minutes.
The product which is viewed by its designers as a way to beat the recession, will hit the high street in the coming weeks.
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Baseball Park To Offer 4,800-calorie Burgers
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Well, at least the salsa is low-cal. The West Michigan Whitecaps, a minor league baseball team, will be offering up major league cholesterol, carbohydrates and calories in an enormous hamburger being added to the menu this year at the Fifth Third Ballpark.
The 4-pound, $20 burger features five beef patties, five slices of cheese, nearly a cup of chili and liberal doses of salsa and corn chips, all on an 8-inch sesame-seed bun. That's a lot of dough!
The Grand Rapids Press reports that anyone who eats the entire 4,800-calorie behemoth in one sitting will receive a special T-shirt. Saner fans can divide it up with a pizza cutter and share.
The Midwest League team is a Class A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. yahoo
Maggot Therapy
Linda Frank of North Syracuse undergoes maggot therapy to treat a foot wound she suffered due to diabetes. Maggot therapy is when a doctor puts maggots on a wound and lets the larvae eat away the dead tissue.
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India's Tata Motors To Launch Ultra-cheap Nano Car
MUMBAI, India – Tata Motors said it will launch its ultra-cheap Nano car in Mumbai on Monday — a vehicle meant to herald a revolution by making it possible for the world's poor to purchase their first car.
But few predict the snub-nosed Nano will be able to turn around the company, which has been beset by flagging sales and high debt, anytime soon.
The Nano, which is priced starting at about 100,000 rupees ($2,050), is a stripped-down car for stripped-down times: It is 10.2 feet (3.1 meters) long, has one windshield wiper, a 623cc rear engine, and a diminutive trunk, according to the company's Web site.
It does not have air bags or antilock brakes — neither of which is required in India — and if you want air conditioning, a radio, or power steering, you'll have to pay extra.
Tata Motors has been hard-hit by the global downturn. Commercial vehicle sales, its core business, have been decimated as India's growth slows, and consumers have had trouble getting affordable car loans.
The company declared a loss of 2.63 billion rupees ($54 million) for the October to December quarter, and it has been struggling to refinance the remaining $2 billion of a $3 billion loan it took to buy the Jaguar and Land Rover brands from Ford Motor Co. in June.
Even the launch of the Nano has been scaled back.
The car is arriving six months late because of violent protests by farmers and opposition political party leaders over land, which forced Tata to move its Nano factory from West Bengal to the business-friendly state of Gujarat.
Company officials have said it will take at least a year to complete the new factory, and until then, Tata will only be able to produce a limited number of Nanos from its other car plants in India.
Tata Motors hasn't yet given details on production volumes, but most analysts doubt the company will be able to make more than about 50,000 cars in the next year — a far cry from the 250,000 the company had planned to roll out initially.
Vaishali Jajoo, auto analyst at Mumbai's Angel Broking, said even if Tata Motors manages to sell 250,000 Nanos a year, it will only add 3 percent to the company's total revenues.
"That doesn't make a significant difference to the top line. And for the bottom line, it will take five to six years to break even," Jajoo said.
Still, in this new age of global thrift, the Nano sounds appealing to more than just the struggling farmers and petty businessmen across India that Tata initially had in mind for the car.
"What do you think the chances are that the Nano will come to America? Personally, I'd love one," Steven Smith, whose first car was a Volkswagen Dune Buggy, wrote recently on the Nano Facebook page.
Tata Motors unveiled the Tata Nano Europa, a slightly more robust version of the Indian model, at the Geneva Motor Show this month, with a planned launch of 2011. But the company has no plans to bring the Nano to America anytime soon. yahoo
Chaos at 'America's Next Top Model' Audition in Manhattan
Pandemonium erupted outside of an "America's Next Top Model" casting call at CW Studios in midtown Saturday when an overheating car triggered a stampede of catwalk-craving cuties. Screaming as they ran for their lives, hundreds of hotties in heels toppled over barricades along W. 55th St. after several people in the crowd started yelling, "There's a bomb!"
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Mars In Google Earth
Explore Mars in Google Earth 5.0. Be the first human to view images from NASA, take a narrated tour by Mars experts, view 3D rover models and search for famous Martian landmarks. Download at http://earth.google.com/mars
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Deadly Ebola Scare
German scientist might have contracted ebola virus from needle, Hamburg doctors say.
German doctors are treating a woman they say may have contracted the deadly ebola virus while working in a laboratory in the city of Hamburg, but there is no risk it will spread, the clinic treating her said.
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Natasha Richardson Dies After Fall
Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson has died after a skiing accident in Canada earlier this week. She was 45.
A member of Britain's Redgrave acting dynasty and the wife of actor Liam Neeson, Richardson was hospitalized in New York on Tuesday after being injured a day earlier in a fall at the Mont Tremblant Resort in Quebec. She is survived by her husband and two sons. Talk of the Town includes this and the rest of the top celebrity and entertainment news.
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Rare Superman Comic Sells For $317,200
NEW YORK – A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $317,200 in an Internet auction. The previous owner had bought it for less than a buck.
It's one of the highest prices ever paid for a comic book, a likely testament to the volume's rarity and its excellent condition, said Stephen Fishler, co-owner of the auction site ComicConnect.com and its sister dealership, Metropolis Collectibles.
The winning bid for the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, which features Superman lifting a car on its cover, was submitted Friday evening by John Dolmayan, drummer for the rock band System of a Down, according to managers at ComicConnect.com.
Dolmayan, who is also a dealer of rare comic books, said he acquired the Superman comic on behalf of a client he declined to identify.
"This is one of the premier books you could collect," he said in a telephone interview. "It's considered the Holy Grail of comic books. I talked to my client, and we made the move."
Dolmayan said the client has "a small collection, but everything he has is incredible."
Only about 100 copies of Action Comics No. 1 are known to exist and they seldom come up for sale.
"Maybe in a booming economy, it would have done a hundred grand more, but in this economy, I think the price is great," Fishler said.
The man who had previously owned the book purchased it in a secondhand store in the early 1950s when he was nine years old.
He paid 35 cents. yahoo
Worshiping Gods and Demons
Hindus in India's northern Himachal Pradesh worship mythological demons along with gods in a unique festival.
"Kotlu", as the seven-day festival is called, is celebrated every year to mark a compromise between gods and demons.
The legend is conveyed in the form of an act presented by men dressed as demons and gods. The Demons are covered with green leaves and wear ugly masks, after which ordinary people are not allowed to either touch them or talk to them.
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The Man Who Eats Everything
Algerian Salim Haini likes to attract a crowd as he performs his incredible gastronomical feats. Light bulbs, nails, plastic, newspapers: you name it, he'll eat it. The 25-year-old hopes to munch his way into the Guinness World Records.
He wants to be the first Arab to enter the record book for "eating everything".
Similar records are currently held by nationals of other countries.
The audience in Algiers was aghast at some of the things they saw Haini chew and swallow. But at least he's not picky about his food.
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The Power Of Green Technology
From the 'zero watt PC' to a smart electricity meter that allows consumers to monitor their power consumption in real-time, Green IT is getting much attention at CeBIT.
The number of vendors at Europe's largest technology trade fair has dwindled due to the global economic crisis but the environmental element of this show has branched out - growing six-fold over last year.
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Beyonce Knowles Performs With Hugh Jackman At OSCARS 2009
Beyonce Knowles performs with Hugh Jackman and Amanda Seyfield , dominic cooper ( of mamma mia) and Zac Effron and Vanessa Hudgens ( of high school musical fame) at OSCARS 2009 in a feet-tappin musical tour de force!!!
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Whales Die On Beach
Nearly 200 pilot whales and a handful of bottlenose dolphin are beached on King Island in Tasmania.
Rescuers were trying to save dozens of the stricken whales with many already dead.
The latest mass beaching takes the number of whales stranded in Tasmania's northwest over the past three months to more than 400, and follows the deaths of 48 sperm whales in January.
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A Deep-sea Fish With a Transparent Head And Tubular Eyes
MBARI researchers Bruce Robison and Kim Reisenbichler used video taken by unmanned, undersea robots called remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to study barreleye fish in the deep waters just offshore of Central California. At depths of 600 to 800 meters (2,000 to 2,600 feet) below the surface, the ROV cameras typically showed these fish hanging motionless in the water, their eyes glowing a vivid green in the ROV's bright lights. The ROV video also revealed a previously undescribed feature of these fish--its eyes are surrounded by a transparent, fluid-filled shield that covers the top of the fish's head.
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