Could bullfighting be banned?
For as long as most people can remember Bullfighting has been a major event in Spain, it has been a national pastime and tourist attraction, but now it seems that bullfighting could be coming to end in Spain.
In the north eastern region of the country, the Catalonian regional government has been presented with a petition [...]
Food with the most calories
With the economy looking to be in dire straits for some time, it looks as if a lot of people are looking to get away from it all by going on holiday. The US is a cool place to visit, but eating out can do more than just break the bank, check out these favourites:
Chili’s [...]
Snakes are on a plane
Most people would think that films such as “Snakes on a Plane” made in 2006 are total fiction and could not possibly ever happen, if you believe that then you could be wrong as passengers on an internal flight in Australia found out recently.
It happened on a Quantas flight from Alice Springs to Melbourne when [...]
NASA may go to Venus
NASA could be sending a fleet of craft to Venus in the not too distant future, but the craft used will not only be the usual rocket powered, as NASA are experimenting with high altitude balloons. Could this be the future of space travel?
The plan will be considered to go in around fifteen years time, [...]
University offers Beatles degree
There are many college courses around that cover many hundreds if not thousands of subjects. However, most of these subjects are the standard type that you would expect to find on a university prospectus. Therefore, when a course turns up offering a Master of Arts degree on the subject of the Beatles, it is bound [...]
January 20, 2009Gold coins found in Suffolk
It could be one of biggest finds ever of Iron Age gold coins and they were found in field Suffolk. The haul consisted of around 824 gold coins which are known as Staters, were uncovered by an unnamed man using a metal detector.
The man contacted the archaeological service at Suffolk county hall who dispatched Jude [...]
Thai police to wear smiley masks
In Asia pollution on the streets can reach levels, which are just very wrong to work in, yet the traffic do so on a daily basis. However, in Thailand the motorcycle cops have to resort to wearing anti pollution masks, which ordinarily would make them look even scarier.
So to reduce the impact these mask wearing [...]
Otters roaming the streets
There was a time when the only animals found on the streets of cities and towns were cats, dogs and rodents, but these days the easy access to waste food and other delights is attracting animals that would normally be expected to be seen in the country.
One surprising visitor to the streets is the otter, [...]
UK withdraws warship from Falklands
It could be a bad sign for the people of the Falkland Islands because for the first time since the conflict the warship, pirates are withdrawing which protects the region, to patrol the waters off Somalia because of the increased attacks.
HMS Northumberland was only dispatched to the islands earlier this month, but because of the [...]
Will the mammoth return?
It may sound like the storyline of a film and in fact, this scenario has been the basis to many books, TV programmes and films, but could this be the age where scientists begin to repopulate the world with species that have been extinct.
However, when the frozen remains of a mammoth were found in Siberia [...]