Archive for October, 2009
October 7th, 2009
A submarine made of scraps
(02:58) Report
Sep 10 – Amateur inventor Tao Xiangli has built a home-made submarine he hopes will give him his big break.
Multimedia report by Christina Hu, with additional photographs by Reinhard Krause and video by Mark Chisholm.
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October 7th, 2009
Oct 6 – An athlete from the Caucasian republic of Georgia bursts hot water bottles by blowing them up with his nose.
Jemal Tkeshelashvili, an 18-year-old Georgian athlete, attempted to make the Guinness Book of Records by blowing up the rubber hot water bottles until they burst.
October 7th, 2009
Australian surfer Mark Visser surfs an 11 metre (36 foot) wave at Cow Bombie, near the West Australian town of Gracetown, 280km (174 miles) south of Perth, in this handout photograph obtained September 28, 2009. The organisers claim that Visser has caught one of the biggest waves in Australia for 2009. The Cow Bombie break is gaining a reputation as one of the hot spots for big wave surfing. REUTERS/Calum Macauley/Handout (AUSTRALIA SPORT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
October 7th, 2009
School children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi take part in a cultural programme on the eve of Gandhi’s 140th birth anniversary, in the central Indian city of Bhopal October 1, 2009.
