30. Jun 2009, 15:30
For most of us, owning a super car is a fantasy that will never become reality. But, for those driving enthusiasts willing to embrace a technicality, the convenience of urban motoring might soon be available alongside upper-tier luxury and an extremely desirable association with Aston Martin.
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29. Jun 2009, 15:00
Given the astronomical odds, you have to be pretty unlucky to be struck by lightning during a storm. But, singular strikes apart, you really have to feel for a distinctly unlucky group of teenagers in the UK that were subjected to a collective strike last week.
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22. Jun 2009, 17:20
Set to gradually take shape in a remote corner of Sierra County, New Mexico, approximately 45 miles outside Las Cruces, the spaceport’s most telling function will see it serving as an operational hub for private citizens, much in the same way as a conventional airport. ...
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19. Jun 2009, 15:30
Passengers aboard a trans-Atlantic flight heading for New Jersey on Thursday were thankful for the presence of not one but two co-pilots after the plane’s serving captain suddenly died behind the controls.
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18. Jun 2009, 16:15
For some, texting is a form of quick and convenient mobile communication, for others it’s a bastardisation of modern language, but for 15-year-old teenager Kate Moore it’s a carefully honed skill that recently bagged her a considerable amount of prize money.
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17. Jun 2009, 15:45
A fresh wave of UFO sightings reportedly viewed by hundreds of onlookers late on Monday night have been explained away as nothing more ominous or otherworldly than a dazzling downpour of galactic debris.
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12. Jun 2009, 15:45
With January’s miraculous emergency landing in the Hudson River still fresh in the memories of U.S. aviation officials, it has been announced that dozens of city-owned properties located within five miles of the airports will be scoured and cleansed of Canadian Geese in order to protect departing aircraft. ...
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12. Jun 2009, 15:15
While the chances of being struck by a hurtling chunk of space rock are thought to be billions to one – with multiple jackpot lottery wins more likely – that’s hardly to arrive as much comfort for ‘lucky’ German teenager Gerrit Blank.
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10. Jun 2009, 15:00
With one lucky escape already notched up this week after a dog fetched a live World War II grenade to its German owner, a fisherman in Florida has emerged unscathed from a similarly dangerous situation involving a considerably more modern weapon.
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9. Jun 2009, 15:15
When lobbing a stick for your enthusiastic pooch while out on a walk, you generally expect said stick to return tightly secured within the dog’s slavering mouth. Want you don’t generally expect is for man’s best friend to drop a live hand grenade at your feet.
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