Watch terrifying moment drunk man hangs from power cables after climbing 30ft electricity pole - Mirror Online - FrontMotion Firefox. Royal Mail Ltd - FrontMotion Firefox. Argentina 'invades' Falklands in online game - FrontMotion Firefox. 26 March 2013Last updated at 17:23 ET Argentines can now 'fight' for the islands they call the Malvinas in a virtual world An Argentine company has developed a map for the popular online game Counter Strike in which players fight British "terrorists" on the Falkland Islands.
The setting created by Dattatec.com has clocked more than 9,000 downloads in a few hours, after "going viral". German flea circus hit by freeze - FrontMotion Firefox. 1 April 2013Last updated at 06:04 ET The circus fleas are made to perform tricks such as pulling miniature carts A flea circus in Germany has been scrambling to replace its performers after the entire troupe was wiped out by this spring's freezing weather.
Circus director Robert Birk told the BBC he found some 300 fleas dead inside their transport box last week. It was the first time the cold had killed a whole troupe in one go. A university insect expert, Professor Heinz Mehlhorn, managed to provide 60 replacement fleas in time for a performance at an open-air fair. Mr Birk said it had been a "very difficult moment" when he discovered that the tiny circus stars had died. "It's hard to know when minus temperatures will be fatal for them," he told the BBC. "But the show must go on. " Training began immediately for the new recruits. "This is no April Fool's. Hagfish slime: The clothing of the future? - FrontMotion Firefox. 1 April 2013Last updated at 20:33 ET By Anna Rothschild PRI's The World, Ontario, Canada The jawless, spineless hagfish is a primitive creature that lives at the bottom of the ocean and dates back as far as 500 million years - but it exudes a very special slime, which could provide the clothing of the future.
Hagfish are not the most glamorous of creatures. They slope around on the deep, dark ocean floor, scavenging for food. Dead whale is a favourite. But they do have a trick up their sleeve, or rather tucked within their snake-like body - abundant, highly-condensed slime. A hagfish has no jaws, and its slime serves as a valuable form of self-defence. Researchers recently filmed what happens when a shark bites a hagfish - its mouth and gills are quickly covered in slime. Footage courtesy of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa "These guys have been around through just about everything," he says. When you stretch the fibres in water and then dry them out, they become silky. First beaver spotted at a Perthshire loch in 400 years is given a DNA test - FrontMotion Firefox. What happens when a shark attacks a hagfish? - FrontMotion Firefox. Herculaneum: Archaeologists find diet of poor was rich - FrontMotion Firefox.
LHC upgrade to open up 'new realm of particle physics' - FrontMotion Firefox. 2 April 2013Last updated at 08:19 ET By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News, Cern, Geneva Engineer Katy Foraz shows Pallab Ghosh how to upgrade the Large Hadron Collider Engineers have begun a major upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Their work should double the energy of what's already the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. BBC News is the first to be allowed to see inside the LHC - on the French-Swiss border - to watch the work being carried out. Scientists believe the upgrade will enable them to discover new particles which will lead to a more complete theory of how the Universe works. A project leader with the LHC's Atlas experiment, Dr Pippa Wells, told BBC News that there was much more to come from the LHC. Snake in roadside rescue - ITV News - FrontMotion Firefox. What are they fighting for? – @RugbyPhilBB - FrontMotion Firefox. A normal Welsh rugby civil war takes 6 to 9 months to play out.
We saw this in 1996, we saw it in 1999 (when it took a little longer) and we saw it again in 2002-3. The Union lost the first one (who controled the players when professional rugby started) but won the next two (the crazy decision to block an Anglo-Welsh league and an equally crazy decision to go “Regional”). Are they on for a hat trick? I’d say so. Roger Lewis has the cards stacked heavily in his favour: the media won’t rock the boat with the WRU so the tone of the reporting of the present issues is weighted, the Participation Agreement ends next year but it can, at the wish of the four pro teams, roll over until 2019 which means that they will be skint until that point before he’ll try to close them again.
In return, the Pro teams (let’s forget calling them “regions” as they may not even carry that brand for much longer) have the players and a link to the English clubs. Like this: Like Loading... Petrol station cash machine explosion CCTV released - FrontMotion Firefox. Pro12: Cardiff Blues 16-23 Ospreys - FrontMotion Firefox. April Fools' Day 2013: The Best (And Worst) From Britain's Newspapers - FrontMotion Firefox. In a year when our weather has gone topsy-turvy, former top politicians have ended up in jail and polls show that Boris Johnson could wipe out Labour's lead in a general election, you'd be forgiven for overlooking a few of this year's April Fools' stories.
We've rounded up the best from the press this year. Did you spot them? The Daily Mail wins top prize for this story about budget cuts forcing Royal Mail staff to train owls to deliver internal mail. "When high-flying trainer Amy Smith hit on the idea of using the owls, colleagues were sceptical, but she managed to persuade them it was far from a bird-brained plan because of the owls' innate aptitude for the job. " What a hoot... At the Independent, journalists reported that cabinet ministers can buy their own red box for little under £1,000 after being sacked or reshuffled. "There have been very, very naughty instances of boxes going for a walk - usually around election time," said one source.
Twitter is going to start charging for vowels.