Oz condom ad banned for being ‘too sexy’ for TV
London: An Australian condom advertisement has been banned as it was too sexy to be shown on TV.
The ad, which is produced for ‘Four Seasons Condoms’, shows a young couple looking out for condoms at a pharmacy, the Mirror reported.
The couple then goes on trying the different sizes of the ”naked” condom, while having sex in different positions.
Although the advert has been banned, it has received a staggering 230,000 hits and counting on YouTube, as well as more than 1,000 likes. (ANI)
Meet the man who ‘cured’ backache by walking in 200 kg shoes!
Melbourne: A Chinese man has claimed that walking in huge iron shoes weighing an outrageous 200 kilograms each has cured his back pain and haemorrhoids.
Zhang Fuxing said that he has been walking with iron shoes for seven years and after the weight reached 400 kilograms, he felt very proud and now plans to add 50 kilograms to them, News.com.au.
The 52-year-old factory worker has credited his ability to move the shoes to the Chinese spiritual martial art Qigong, which involves controlling the flow of supposed bodily energies.
It takes Fuxing over a minute to take 10 paces, but he claims that he can walk up to 15 metres each day in the shoes. (ANI)
Malayalee RJs in Dubai set longest radio music show record
Dubai: Two Indian radio jockeys (RJs) here have set a new Guinness World Record for hosting the longest radio music show, which became one of the most popular live events in the city.
Sindhu Biju and Mithun Ramesh of Malayalam radio channel Hit 96.7 FM on Sunday night broke the existing record set by a DJ duo of Hot FM 91.3 of Singapore.
They hosted a ‘talkathon’ for 84 hours and 15 minutes till 5 am on Monday, breaking the 77 hours and 11 minutes record of Hot FM. The duo began the marathon RJing on their 5pm show on Thursday.
Their total recess period lasted for only 2 hours and 35 minutes of which they took just two power naps totalling 49 minutes. At 10.12 pm on Sunday, Guinness World Records Limited’s Mena project manager Samer Khallouf announced that Sindhu and Mithun are ‘Officially Amazing’, the tag line of Guinness World Records and have broken the record set in Singapore earlier this year.
The names of the two RJs will appear as the new record holders of ‘Longest marathon for a radio music show DJ-team’ in the Guinness World Records. The RJs dedicated their achievement to Dubai for winning the Expo 2020 host city’s title, the entire Malayalee community and their listeners. The duo was back in their office studio to host the regular show by 5pm on Monday. (PTI)
Rare white tiger has knee surgery in Japan
Tokyo: Vets in Japan have carried out knee surgery on a rare white tiger cub, fixing a leg problem the animal had been born with.
In what was being billed as the first such operation on an animal of its kind, surgeons fixed a congenitally displaced kneecap in its right hind leg.
The nine-month-old male, named Sky, was under the knife for five-and-a-half hours yesterday at the Nihon University animal hospital in Fujisawa, south of Tokyo, the school said on its website.
The animal was under general anaesthetic throughout the operation. The tiger, now weighing 56 kilogrammes (123 pounds), was born in March at Tobu Zoo in a northern suburb of Tokyo. A team of veterinary surgeons began the surgery by cutting open the knee and lifting the displaced patella.
“It was a very difficult operation but we managed to complete it without any problems,” said Kazuya Edamura, who led the operation.
“The bone and muscle there were more deformed than we expected. They were thicker and heavier, so we were forced to change the planned method of operation.” But, he added, Sky has youth on his side and will make a full recovery.
The white tiger is a rare variant of the Bengal tiger, born without the pigment that usually makes its fur orange. According to the website of the university’s College of Bio resource Sciences, there are about 300 white tigers in captivity in the world, including some 30 in Japan. (AFP)
Man arrested for ‘revenge porn’ website extortion
Los Angeles: US police arrested a 27-year-old man accused of running a “revenge porn” website hosting over 10,000 sexually explicit photos as part of an extortion ploy, officials said. Kevin Christopher Bollaert, 27, was arrested on Tuesday in San Diego and charged with 31 felony counts of conspiracy, identity theft and extortion over the racket, which allegedly made him tens of thousands of dollars.
“This website published intimate photos of unsuspecting victims and turned their public humiliation and betrayal into a commodity with the potential to devastate lives,” said California’s Attorney General Kamala Harris said.
Bollaert, who is being held in jail on USD 50,000 bail, allegedly created the website in December last year, allowing explicit photos to be posted without the subject’s permission. Such photos, commonly knows as revenge porn, are typically obtained consensually during a relationship but then posted without permission, or are simply stolen or hacked.
Unlike other revenge porn websites where photos are anonymous, the website required the poster to include the subject’s full name, location, age and Facebook profile link.
Bollaert created a second website, which he used when individuals contacted the website asking for their photos to be removed from the site.
He then allegedly extorted victims by offering, from the changemyreputation website, to remove content from the website for a fee of up to USD 350, allegedly making tens of thousands of dollars, according to court documents. “Online predators that profit from the extortion of private photos will be investigated and prosecuted for this reprehensible and illegal internet activity,” Harris said in a statement. (AFP)
Dubai aims to be world’s most sustainable city by 2020
Abu Dhabi: Dubai aims to become one of the top ten sustainable cities in the world by 2020, when the city hosts the World Expo event. Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General of Dubai Municipality, announced that the civic body has started its efforts towards creating one of the most sustainable cities in the world.
He added that the municipality has also formed a special committee for sustainability, which will study and execute green initiatives, Gulf News reports. Speaking at the CEO Dialogue on Tuesday, named “Rethinking Sustainability”, Mohammad Mashroom, director of General Projects Department, explained that the municipality is implementing the green building rules in its new projects.; He said that the municipality is taking the necessary steps to change the old systems to energy saving systems.
He added that the areas under the department”s responsibility include street lighting, roadway lighting, parks, community facilities, parking lots, city landscaping, residential and commercial buildings, pedestrian and bicycling pathways.
He said that solar power is one of the most cost-effective, cleanest, most-affordable forms of renewable energy available, the report added. (ANI)
George Bush joins Twitter
Washington: Former US President George H.W. Bush has become the latest high-profile political figure to join Twitter. Bush joined the micro-blogging site on Tuesday, and first tweeted to honor late South African President Nelson Mandela on the day of his funeral. (ANI)
