It’s complimented as “The World’s Most Sociable mode of Transport” by its investor – a unique tricycle that can seat and padelled by seven riders sitting in a circle. This exclusive invention, ConferenceBike or CoBi, was invented by Eric Staller from Amsterdam and made in German.
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YouTube is the craze now all over the world. It has even taken over the Oscars by some estimates. But it is also creating a lot of jitters amongst governments who desire tighter control over the media and press. In a clash between the giant website and the Thai monarchy, a ban was imposed on Youtube and remained until a video clip deemed insulting to the monarch is removed. The ban was imposed not because of sexual images or violent videos. Instead, the offending 44-second clip showed graffiti plastered all over a slideshow of 79-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej including offending pictures of feet over the King’s image. Although the video had actually been removed by the user after protests from the Thai government, one still frame remained.
YouTube has been completely banned from Thailand after its parent company Google, refused to remove a clip which insulted the Thai monarchy.
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Banana beer, a local tradition in northern Tanzania, has become a popular tourist attraction along with the national parks and safaris in the country. This is a local brew which is partly preserved to keep the hordes of curious visitors coming to get a taste of life in an African village. The villagers go about their life as usual and easily accommodate the tourists in their midst. These villagers retain their dignity for they do not beg for money nor pester the tourists to buy trinkets off them. And tourists are finding the insight into life in an African village more and more fascinating and valuable.
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A hard body, a muscular torso, cute buttocks, and a sexy smile – Walter Bruce Willis has not lost his charm nor sexual appeal yet as the die-hard hero in Live Free: Die Hard 4. He returned as John McClane, the tough cop who was an alcoholic, no longer employed by the police department, and divorced from his wife. Battling personal and relationship problems, his has a job with the United States Department of Homeland Security job to track down dangerous computer hackers.
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Ask any teenager who is football legend Diego Maradona and chances are he’ll be able to tell you, though he might not recognise the football hero from recent photographs. Maradona had put on so much weight that he is not instantly recognisable any more. He appeared like a bloated and fat middle-aged man, who thinks he is God but who is in reality not very sexy nor very successful. But Maradona had been in and out of the limelight throughout the decades. After being heralded as the greatest football player of the last century, Maradona had been dogged by problems of drug and alcohol abuse. It seemed like God blessed this little great man and then abandoned him to the devil.
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After Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes, now are Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. Demi Moore, a reputable American actress who was staring in famous movies like “Ghost”, “Striptease”, “Passion of Mind”, etc and her husband, Ashton Kucher plan to adopt baby.
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Chinese Kung Fu artist and famous Asian action movie star, Jackie Chan, got excited after seeing a big advertisement of famous NBA Houton Rockets’s player Yao Ming. Yao Ming is recruiting athletes to join the Team to Beijing Olympic 2008 in the advertisement.
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