Diamond bra for sale

A jewellery company in China has made a bra out of more than 2,500 diamonds.
Priced at 10 million yuan (approx £650,000) and named Perfect, it was demonstrated by a model at the Yibai Department Store in Jinhua city, Zhejiang province.
The maker, Royal Décor Jewellery, says the piece used natural diamonds weighing more than [...]

6,000-mile trek in tuxedos

Two adventurers have successfully completed a charity trek from Hong Kong to London on horseback - wearing tuxedos.
Briton Heath Buck and American Doug Campbell came up with the idea after they met in a Hong Kong bar.
They saw 19 countries on their four-month, 6,000-mile trip.
They travelled through remote regions of China, Vietnam, [...]

Tattoo spells out Coca-Cola

A man who has proudly showed off his tattoo for 26 years was baffled to realise it actually spelt Coca-Cola.
Vince Mattingley had his named tattooed on his chest in Chinese writing after asking staff at his favourite restaurant to write his name in Chinese symbols.
But a waiter drew the Coke words - and [...]

A third ear for art

An Australian performer has been criticised for having an ear grafted onto his forearm in the name of art.

Cyprus-born Stelios Arcadiou, known as Stelarc, describes his extra ear as an “augmentation of the body’s form”.
But surgeons questioned whether such an operation should have been carried out without medical grounds, reports the BBC.
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Humans to marry robots

A British scientist has been awarded a doctorate for a paper predicting that humans will one day marry robots.
Maastricht University awarded David Levy a PhD for a thesis entitled Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners.
Mr Levy wrote: “Trends in robotics and shifting attitudes on marriage are likely to result in sophisticated robots that will [...]

Gameshow contestant admitted hiring hitman

A game show has been cancelled in Colombia after a contestant won £25,000 after admitting she had hired a hitman to kill her husband.
Nothing But The Truth has been a big hit in South America, subjecting competitors to a lie detector test, reports Metro News.
They had to truthfully answer 21 increasingly invasive questions [...]

Politician denies cheating in marathon

A former Mexican presidential candidate who was disqualified from the Berlin marathon for taking a short cut denies cheating.

Roberto Madrazo clocked the best time for his age but officials found he had skipped a nine mile section of the course.
But Mr Madrazo, 55, says he never claimed to have finished the race [...]

It’s a good crack - but is it art?

It’s a good crack - but is it art?
The latest installation in the Tate Modern gallery’s massive Turbine Hall is a 550ft crack in the floor.

Colombian artist Doris Salcedo’s work Shibboleth starts as a hairline crack and widens to about a foot across.
It cost about £300,000 and took more than six months [...]

Long and the Short

Long and the short
Britain’s tallest man met one of the world’s shortest actors while shooting a new film.

Neil Fingleton, from County Durham, has a cameo in ShortFellas, set in Newcastle and starring Warwick Davies, who played Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi.
The 26-year-old, who is 7ft 7in tall shook hands [...]

Artists’ secret shopping mall pad

Eight artists created a secret furnished apartment inside a US shopping mall - and stayed there for four years.

They took over a disused room connected to the car park of the mall in Providence, Rhode Island.
The artists ate, drank, slept, read, held meetings, watched TV and enjoyed PS2 games in their secret pad, [...]