Message found in bottle after 98 years sets world record. Updated 2012-08-31 4:24 PM Fisherman Andrew Leaper set a world record by finding a message in a bottle near an island off Scotland's northern coast.
Guinness World Records says the find is a record for the length of time spent at sea, beating the previous mark by more than five years. A North Sea fisherman has set a world record by scooping up a bottle that has carried a message in the ocean for almost 98 years. This message was inside a bottle that floated on the ocean for almost 98 years until it was found in April by a Scottish fisherman. Guinness World Records says the discovery sets a record for length of time for a message in a bottle spent at sea. By Scottish Government, AP The bottle, found east of the Shetland Island off Scotland's northern coast, was among 1,890 released all at one time in a government experiment to map the undercurrents of the seas around Scotland, the BBC reports.
Leaper says Anderson is "very unhappy that I have topped his record. " Ipoh, My Hometown. Driver in shocking China toddler hit-and-run death jailed. A driver who ran over a toddler in a hit-and-run accident that shocked China has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison, a court spokeswoman told AFP on Thursday.
The death of the two-year-old girl, nicknamed Yue Yue, triggered a huge public outcry after surveillance camera footage of her being hit by two vehicles last October in the southern Chinese city of Foshan was posted online. At least 18 people were shown walking past the girl as she lay in the street critically injured, before a female rubbish collector finally picked her up and moved her to the curb. The video went viral, shocking the Chinese public and triggering an outbreak of national soul-searching about the impact of rapid development and urbanisation on society.
Hu Jun was sentenced to three years and six months in prison for accidentally causing the toddler’s death by hitting her with his car, a spokeswoman for the court in Foshan’s Nanhai district told AFP by telephone. NTU breaks into list of top 50 universities. Coma. The Enquirer » The Other Side of NTU. NTU Hall 11, a home to students in their prime.
Photo: Brian Leonal The other side of Nanyang Technological University lies NOT in its darkest corners. Neither does it take place after the sunset. No drugs and guns involved. The other side of NTU exists in harmony with its normal, accomplished counterpart, which displays optimistic future, academic robustness and financial security. Madam Toh Leong Hui, 83, is part of that other side. Madam Toh, with a smile that belies what eyes of 80 years have seen. Madam Toh wakes up at five in the morning to clean up her house in Bukit Panjang. She starts after she finishes her coffee and bread for breakfast.
Her typical lunch is, like her breakfast, bread and coffee. Her son works as a lorry driver. Madam Toh, fortunately, has one golden child. But it was not so bad back then. The Biggest Surprise Ever. Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man! (OFFICIAL) The LEGO® Story. Facebook.