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Wales rugby: Toby Faletau relishing visit to Murrayfield for Scotland Six Nations clash. Comments (0) TOBY Faletau is looking forward to the 'graveyard' coming alive when he heads for Murrayfield with Wales on Saturday week.

Wales rugby: Toby Faletau relishing visit to Murrayfield for Scotland Six Nations clash

The No. 8 has only visited the home of Scottish rugby with the Dragons in the Pro12 league. In 2011-12, he played in front of almost 65,000 empty seats, with a funereal atmosphere and voices echoing around the ground. Photographer as Witness: A Portrait of Domestic Violence - LightBox - FrontMotion Firefox. Updated: June 25, 2013 On June 25, 2013, Sara Naomi Lewkowicz won the 2013 Ville de Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award for her work documenting Domestic Violence, to be awarded later this year at Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan.

Photographer as Witness: A Portrait of Domestic Violence - LightBox - FrontMotion Firefox

Photographer Sara Naomi Lewkowicz has continued to document the story of Maggie and her life since November 2012, when she was the victim of a violent attack by her now ex-boyfriend Shane. In an assignment for TIME in March 2013, Lewkowicz visited Maggie and her family in Alaska to document their life as they continue to move on from the incident. Click here to jump to the newest images added to the story and here to see a new multimedia video produced by Lewkowicz for TIME. Sara Naomi Lewkowicz Maggie and Memphis, March 3, 2013. Meteor that slammed into the Urals made the loudest noise ever recorded by global nuclear-test-ban watchdog. Furthest listening post to detect blast was 9,000 miles away in AntarcticaExplosion above city of Chelyabinsk on February 15 hurt more than 1,200Low frequency infrasonic shockwave was not audible to the human ear By Damien Gayle Published: 13:19 GMT, 28 February 2013 | Updated: 15:58 GMT, 28 February 2013 The infrasonic shockwave caused by the explosion of the meteor which slammed into central Russia nearly a fortnight ago was the loudest sound ever recorded by the global nuclear testing watchdog.

Meteor that slammed into the Urals made the loudest noise ever recorded by global nuclear-test-ban watchdog

Murad Osmann: Photographer's amazing pictures of girlfriend leading him by the hand around the globe. By Simon Tomlinson Published: 10:07 GMT, 28 February 2013 | Updated: 17:10 GMT, 28 February 2013 Some men aren't keen on letting their partners take the lead.

Murad Osmann: Photographer's amazing pictures of girlfriend leading him by the hand around the globe

But not Russian photographer Murad Osmann. While some of his peers hate the thought of just being led around the shops, he was quite happy to let his girlfriend guide him around the world. Scroll down for video. 8 aborted superhero flicks we really wish would've happened. For every Batman Begins and Spider-Man that actually makes it through the development process, there are a ton of comic-book movies littering the studio shelves in development hell.

8 aborted superhero flicks we really wish would've happened

Sure, we know about the ones that look like they would’ve been terrible (See: Superman Lives, that half-baked Justice League in 2007, Raimi’s Spider-Man 4), but what about the aborted superhero movies that could’ve been hits? Or if not box office hits, at least pretty good movies? From J.J. Abrams to Joss Whedon, a lot of big names have had their best intentions crash and burn on the way to the big screen. You can blame everything from casting battles to studio interference, but the only thing that really matters is they died a quiet, sad death. So what were some of the coolest movies we never got to see? Wasps & Wales fly-half Stephen Jones announces retirement. TED 2013: 4D printed objects 'make themselves' - FrontMotion Firefox. World Cup Sevens holders Wales drawn against Fiji - FrontMotion Firefox. FOR SALE: One Pontiff, barely used. THE POPE walked into the JobCentre.

FOR SALE: One Pontiff, barely used.

Everyone ignored him, which was unusual. Two women were shouting at each other, lots of people looked worried and sad, and a man with an unhappy Staffordshire bull terrier just stared. The Pope stood there for a bit, and when he realised a cardinal was not going to help said to the man with the terrier: "I would like to see someone. " The man with the terrier pointed with his head at a machine dispensing numbers on bits of paper but said nothing. US private sector hopes to send older couple to Mars - FrontMotion Firefox.

27 February 2013Last updated at 13:01 ET By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News Watch millionaire Dennis Tito's journey from space tourist to mission head A team led by millionaire and former space tourist Dennis Tito plans to send a "tested couple" to Mars and back in a privately funded mission.

US private sector hopes to send older couple to Mars - FrontMotion Firefox

Enjoy the fallibilities of the referee while it lasts. England v France.

Enjoy the fallibilities of the referee while it lasts

Craig Joubert: croissant-hating anti-French ref (with a French sounding surname), or a top official who, maybe, got some decisions wrong on the day? The sensible non-partisan view is that he probably got a couple of big calls wrong (Vunipola hands in the ruck and the Tuilagi try). Now take a step back and ask what percentage of all the decisions he makes during a game are correct (90%, 95%, more?) Llandudno north shore beach to be re-stocked with sand - FrontMotion Firefox. 28 February 2013Last updated at 04:47 ET By Chris Dearden BBC Wales News Organisers say there are too many stones and too much seaweed on north shore beach A thousand tonnes of sand is being moved across a popular resort to re-stock one of its beaches.

Llandudno north shore beach to be re-stocked with sand - FrontMotion Firefox

Llandudno has two beaches, but one has hardly any sand left and the other has too much. Officials at Conwy council said moving spare sand to north shore beach was an obvious solution, though they stressed it would only work in the short term. Alice Finch builds massive LEGO Hogwarts from 400,000 bricks [Photos & Interview]

Last October at BrickCon 2012, Seattle-area builder Alice Finch unveiled what just might be the largest LEGO structure built by a single person, a near-complete minifig-scale rendition of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry from J.K.

Alice Finch builds massive LEGO Hogwarts from 400,000 bricks [Photos & Interview]

Rowling’s Harry Potter series of books and the corresponding movies. Alice’s Hogwarts took home both “People’s Choice” and “Best in Show” – a rare combination that demonstrates not only how massive Hogwarts is (“People’s Choice,” voted on by visitors during the public exhibition, invariably goes to the single biggest LEGO model in the exhibition hall) but also just how well-built and detailed it is (“Best in Show” is voted by all convention attendees). There’s a reason it’s been nearly five months between BrickCon in October and the online unveiling of Alice’s LEGO Hogwarts today — assembling such a huge LEGO structure in the family living room and taking decent pictures of it is virtually impossible.