A blogger from Jilin province came across this shocking image on display outside a shopping centre in the town of Changchun. Discrimination plain and clear? Oh no, says the mall.

Something is rotten in the state of... Vermont. A seven-year-old US boy has smelt his first whiff of success - for owning America's most malodorous trainers.

An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60ft drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents' £1million mansion in Berkshire. It was there for a year before his parents found out. They say he'll have to scrub it off when he gets back from travelling.

This year Mahashivratri falls on Magh Krishna Chaturdashi or 23 th Feb when the Shiva principle descends to Earth a thousand times more than usual. On this day, to obtain the full benefit of Lord Shiva's principle, one should chant 'Om Namah Shivaya' ....

am in Melbourne, not far from the terrifying fires, and the tragic human costs that emerge from them. In Britain, we complain about cold, but warmth is much more dangerous - not just because of the flames, but because we, like all forms of life, live

November 11 2000: Google's co-founders, CEO Larry Page, left, and Chairman Sergey Brin, rest on bean bags at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google replaced Inktomi as Yahoo's search engine in June 2000

At the turn of the 20th Century, New York's Woolworth Building and Chicago's Monadnock Building set a trend that transformed the skylines of US cities..Here, with the help of archive photographs, Professor Davidlooks at the birth of the skyscraper

"A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons".

This gardener must have had a whale of a time sculpting this giant hedge. The enormous sculpture, with its big smile and flicked-out tail, has proved a big hit in the seaside town of Whitstable, Kent. Its creator, Nicki Leggatt, 59, a senior lecturer at

"Dumb as can be." That's what police are saying about a local restaurant owner, charged with serving up a little something extra with the food. They say he was selling drugs -- and he taped himself doing it. CBS station WBBM-TV in Chicago's Mike Puccinel