English Vegetable Grower Claims Guinness World Record for 8 kg Onion
Gardener Peter Glazebrook poses for photographers with his world record breaking onion at The Harrogate Autumn Flower Show on September 16 in Harrogate, England. Peter Glazebrook from Newark, Nottinghamshire claimed a Guinness World Record with his giant onion weighing 8.150kg. (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)
Corpse Hotel Reaps Grim Profits in Japan
An employee adjusts a coffin sold at the Lastel corpse hotel during a photo opportunity in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, September 10, 2011. (Yuriko Nakao / Reuters)
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Anti-gravity Phenomenon Rocks
Stones sit atop each other in Tanay, Philippines after a rock balancing performance. Rock balancing is a performance art which involves arranging natural stones, usually found on location, in gravity-defying arrangements without tools. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)
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How the Japanese Cleared up Debris after Quake and Tsunami
It has been hardly six months since the killer quake and tsunami devastated Japan on March 11, 2011. But the Japanese spirit made things different in this short span of time – the country has been praised for its efforts to clear up debris.
Wrecks cluttered across the coastal regions of the country following the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the massive tsunami which the quake triggered. Pictures of a huge ship resting on a roof flashed across the Web and other media, depicting enormity of nature’s fury on March 11.
Japan is striving to recover from the aftermath of the disaster, including nuclear radiation releases around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, but the country has surely made a strong progress in cleaning up the debris.
This combination photo shows the fishing port of Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, after the massive earthquake and tsunami taken on March 12, 2011 (top), June 6, 2011 (middle), and September 5, 2011 (bottom). (REUTERS/KYODO Kyodo)
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Dog Sets New World Record for Having Longest Ears
An eight-year-old coonhound from Boulder, Colorado, USA, gets the 2012 Guinness World Records title for “longest ears on a living dog.” The officials confirmed that the dog, Harbor, has ears measuring 12.25 inches in length on the left and 13.5 inches on the right.
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Burning Man 2011: Rites of Passage in Nevada Desert
The 25th Burning Man Festival came to an end Monday. Nearly 50,000 people gathered in Nevada’s Black Rock, where they lived, partied and celebrated “community, artwork, absurdity, decommodification and revelry” for a week.
The theme for this year’s Burning Man was “Rites of Passage.” The event which used to be free now cost $360, with tickets going for as high as $1000 on Stub Hub.
A group of women pose at Burning Man in 1999. (Hector Mata/AFP/Getty Images)
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The 25th Annual Bristol International Kite Festival
A giant monkey kite flies at the 25th annual Bristol International Kite Festival on the Ashton Court Estate in England. Following two attempts on the previous day, plans were abandoned to fly the world’s largest kite due to strong turbulence and damage caused the day before. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)
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What a Ride: Coming of Age Day in Tokyo
Japanese women in kimonos ride a roller-coaster during their Coming of Age Day event at an amusement park in Tokyo. (Kim Kyung-hoon / Reuters)
Coming of Age day is held annually on the second Monday of January to congratulate all those who have reached the age of 20 years old. According to a local report, about 1,240,000 men and women who were born in 1990, reached the coming of age this year and this figure is the smallest number since 1968 in the world’s oldest major country.
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Toxic Seaweed Closes Beaches in France’s Northwest
Masses of green seaweed, which at times emits noxious gasses, is seen on a beach at Kerlaz near Douarnenez in Brittany, western France. (REUTERS / Mal Langsdon)
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Warning! Gastric Content! Kobayashi vs Furious Pete: Showdown in the Rain
Pizza chef and competitor Kris Cross sports a pizza tattoo as he prepares cheese pizzas for the competition. In torrential rain, super eaters Takeru Kobayashi and Canadian Furious Pete Czerwinski squared off again. (Toronto Star / Steve Russell – Staff Photographer)
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