Eerie Pics Show Tunisia's Abandoned 'Star Wars' Sets - FrontMotion Firefox. Little known fact: Tatooine isn't actually located in a galaxy far, far away.
It's right here on Earth — Tunisia, to be precise. The North African country was where many of the most iconic Stars Wars scenes were shot decades ago. Its dramatic, desolate landscape provided an ideal setting to help bring George Lucas' imagination to life. Visual artist and filmmaker Rä di Martino recently saw the abandoned sets — some of which have stood the test of time better than others — firsthand. Her eerie, beautiful photos are remarkable both for their nostalgic value and their subject matter, giving those who see them a window into a surreal world. Rat meat and Chinese food safety - FrontMotion Firefox. 12 May 2013Last updated at 20:16 ET By Martin Patience BBC News, Beijing The latest food scandal in China - which has seen rat meat passed off as lamb - has raised more questions about food safety in the country.
It seems that barely a day goes by in China without news of yet another food safety scandal. But the latest case - even by Chinese standards - was truly stomach-churning. Hundreds of people were arrested after passing off rat meat as lamb. Perhaps, unsurprisingly, the scandal has given rise to a round of stories about rodents. I heard one anecdote about a restaurant in southern China that serves up rat meat dishes. 1st official look at the agents of Whedon's new S.H.I.E.L.D. series. Good news, folks.
Joss Whedon is officially coming back to television, and he's bringing the Marvel universe with him. It’s taken long enough, but ABC just made it official: The small-screen Avengers spinoff Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will be on the schedule this fall. Welcome back, Joss (Avengers, Buffy, FIrefly), we’ve missed you. More intriguing info emerge on John Hurt's pivotal role in Who's 50th. Yesterday, we told you about John Hurt’s rather pivotal role in Doctor Who’s upcoming 50th-anniversary special.
Today we have even more info to share, and it’s timey-wimey juicy. The new info concerning the character Hurt will play in Who’s big whopping anniversary comes from the Sun, so take this with a grain of salt. But it would seem to confirm even more what we first thought about his character. According to an anonymous source: “John will play the real Ninth Doctor. 1st look at McAvoy as '70s-era Xavier in Days of Future Past.
We’ve been wondering how Bryan Singer would imagine James McAvoy’s young '70s-era Professor Xavier, and now we finally know.
Guys, Professor X is looking rough. Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past will be bringing the action into the 1970s (as well as the present day), and Xavier is looking worse for wear in his signature wheelchair. Everyone's sexy (and sometimes bloody) in 21 new True Blood S6 pics. Explosion fails to demolish disused building in Brisbane - FrontMotion Firefox. Hong Kong court supports transsexual right to wed - FrontMotion Firefox. 13 May 2013Last updated at 04:46 GMT Four of the court's five judges ruled that W should be able to marry her boyfriend A Hong Kong transsexual has won the right to marry her boyfriend, following an appeal to Hong Kong's top court.
The Court of Final Appeal ruled that Hong Kong's current law, which barred the transsexual woman from marrying her male partner, is unconstitutional. The woman, identified only as W, underwent gender change surgery at a public hospital a few years ago. One World Trade Center build shown in time-lapse – video. Brave director criticises Disney's 'sexualised' Princess Merida redesign. Disney has been fiercely criticised for creating a "glammed-up" version of Princess Merida from the Pixar fantasy fairytale Brave for a new toy line.
Bow-slinging Merida has been given a makeover in advance of her official induction into The Disney Princess Collection. She now appears slimmer, older and somewhat sexualised, in comparison to the teenage tomboy from last year's Oscar-winning animation. A petition launched on the Change.org website calling on the studio to return the character to her more realistic origins has reached more than 100,000 signatures in just over a week and gained the support of Merida's creator Brenda Chapman. Lions 2013: How does a British & Irish Lions squad bond together? - FrontMotion Firefox.
Does Shard point to design's future? - FrontMotion Firefox. 13 May 2013Last updated at 05:52 ET By Alex Hudson BBC Click Spencer Kelly looks at some of the technology in the Shard Western Europe's tallest building, the Shard, opened in London with a fanfare earlier this year.
But does it represent the latest in building design and technology, or is it already being outpaced? The opening of the Shard's public viewing platform, some 243m (800ft) up the tower, was marked with a ribbon-cutting ceremony by the London Mayor and a wedding proposal. The Shard's opening provided one man a special occasion to pop a special question Described as a "vertical town", the building will have a variety of uses - hotels, restaurants, private accommodation, offices and - towards the bottom - a shopping district. "It is great that London is continuing to change," says Peter Rees, City of London planning officer. WHO says new coronavirus may be passed person to person - FrontMotion Firefox. 12 May 2013Last updated at 14:46 ET The World Health Organisation says it is closely monitoring the novel coronavirus The World Health Organization says it appears likely that the novel coronavirus (NCoV) can be passed between people in close contact.
This comes after the French health ministry confirmed a second man had contracted the virus in a possible case of human-to-human transmission. Two more people in Saudi Arabia are also reported to have died from the virus, according to health officials. NCoV is known to cause pneumonia and sometimes kidney failure. World Health Organization (WHO) officials have expressed concern over the clusters of cases of the new coronavirus strain and the potential for it to spread. Since 2012, there have been 34 confirmed cases across Europe and the Middle East, with 18 deaths, according to a recent WHO update. Cases have been detected in Saudi Arabia and Jordan and have spread to Germany, the UK and France.
Menacing statue in theater lobby may be 1st full look at Hobbit's Smaug. So far, our info on exactly what Smaug will look like in the Hobbit trilogy has been limited to winged shadows, dilating pupils and hot gusts of flaming dragon breath.
Here's a massive statue erected inside a well-known theater lobby in Wellington, New Zealand, that appears to be the dastardly destroyer himself. It's a beautiful piece of studio art and hints pretty hard at it being the infamous lizard we'll meet more intimately in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. This hallowed hallway at the Roxy Theater is normally reserved for the statue placement of characters from Peter Jackson films like Tintin, Gandalf and Gollum. Voiced by Star Trek Into Darkness baddie Benedict Cumberbatch, the ferocious Smaug is one of most iconic creations in the Tolkien universe and hotly anticipated in the next installment coming out this Christmas.