How do you measure a 110-stone polar bear?
A ten-stone research scientist doesn't often get the better of a 110-stone polar bear.
But thanks to a powerful tranquilliser dart, this scientist, deep in the icy wastes of Alaska, was able to do just that.
Just a few minutes after being struck by the dart, and roaring with surprise, the angry male bear collapsed on the icy ground, unconscious.
Giant Table or Tiny Bicyclist?
This humongous table and chair is a sculpture in England. The artist wanted to build a monument to the privacy and loneliness of writing. And by that we assume he means the loneliness of being a writer who is also a giant that eats passing bicyclists.
India's oldest man dies at 138
- Habib Miyan, India's oldest man, died on Tuesday morning in Jaipur at the age of 130, the Sahara Samay TV channel said.
According to his pension records, Habib was born on May 20, 1878, the same year as Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. He was the world's oldest pensioner, having received his pension since 1938.
Habib claimed to be 138, which would have made him the world's oldest man. However, according to the TV channel, he has in the past made several contradictory claims as to his age.
Josh Keyes
Josh Keyes is a Northern California painter and sculptor. He creates work that asks questions about the implications of urban sprawl and its impact on the environment.
Josh Keyes is interested in creating psychological narratives set in closed systems that express the behavior and interaction between humans and animals.
Women's Marathon gold claimed by Tomescu
Romanian Constantina Tomescu crossed the finish line of the Women's Marathon to claim the title at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2 hours 26.44 minutes
"It was a great performance. I'm very happy to win a medal, but especially the gold. At the World Championships in Canada (2005 World Half-Marathon Championships), everybody said I couldn't run, but I showed today what I can do," said the victor.
"The gold medal, for me, it is great," Tomescu added.
Weird inventions on show
A grenade that puts out fires, a self-pouring teapot, periscope spectacles, a peach peeler and a moustache protector are among oddball inventions on show at the British Library.
The Weird and Wonderful Inventions display, which opened Thursday and runs until November 10 at the national library in central London, is showing off a wealth of eccentric contraptions and ingenious gadgets.
Amazing 5,000-year-old skeletons
A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert.
Researchers discovered the slender arms of the youngsters still extended to the woman in a perpetual embrace.
The remarkable cemetery is providing clues to two civilisations who lived there, a thousand years apart, when the region was moist and green.
Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago and colleagues were searching for the remains of dinosaurs in the African country of Niger when they came across the startling find.
Some 200 graves of humans were found during fieldwork at the site in 2005 and 2006, as well as remains of animals, large fish and crocodiles.
'Everywhere you turned, there were bones belonging to animals that don't live in the desert,' said Sereno.
'I realized we were in the green Sahara.'
The graveyard, uncovered by hot desert winds, is near what would have been a lake at the time people lived there. It's in a region called Gobero, hidden away in Niger's forbidding Tenere Desert, known to Tuareg nomads as a 'desert within a desert.'
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