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Japan's Sumo wrestlers are known for many things - their strength, their strict regiment, their size and now apparently, their ability to make babies cry - At least that's what they came to do in full force last weekend, at the Nakizumo or Crying Sumo Festival, which took place in temples all across the country....

Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, measuring over 4,000 square miles was recently listed as one of the 25 wonders of the world....

Yesterday's spectacular explosion of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökul volcano partly melted the glacier above and not only caused a major flood resulting in the evacuation of seven hundred people, but has also left air passengers stranded across six continents!...

Did you know that of the 17 million children living in America, one in four faces hunger every day or that between 2007 and 2008, the number of kids living in poverty grew by 748,000?...

Alarm clocks come in many shapes and tones - ranging from the gentle soothing voice of mums, to the jarring noise from clocks that refuse to quit, no matter how many times the snooze button is hit....

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Vipula Athukorale is part of a dying breed of chefs - a kitchen artist, who can magically transform any edible substance - even a slippery, slimy stick of butter, into a piece of art. His latest creations earned him two gold and one silver medal at London's Salon Culinaire 2010, a prestigious competition for world-class chefs....

Despite the advances in electric vehicles, the biggest impediment to using them for public transportation is that they need long charge times or large batteries to store the power. However, scientists at South Korea's Advanced Institute of Science and Technology may have come finally come up with a solution - a vehicle that charges while it moves!...

Earlier this week, Norway was home to one of Europe's biggest military training sessions - Operation Cold Response. While the rest of the soldiers performed their parachute dives solo, a Special Forces soldier from Austria came down with a companion - his explosive sniffing dog!...