For several days, the attention of all football fans riveted to the European soccer championship, which is now in Ukraine and Poland. Within a few weeks fans will be rooting for your favorite team at stadiums and on television. Football is very popular around the world. It is played not only...

1. Japan Rice and fish make up the bulk of the menu, but some days students are treated to the kind of East-West comfort food. 2. Korea 3. France: 4. Sweden 5. Czech Republic 6. Italy The majority of Italian schools serve lunches made from organic ingredients,...

If the price of arugula makes you want to cry, perhaps this isn’t the slideshow for you. Click through to check out some of the world’s most expensive foods, and why they have such a streep price tag.  1. Vanilla Price: $ 7/ounce Why does it cost so much? More labor goes into...

World War II is often touted as the most important conflict in world history (though our vote goes to “whatever conflict our ancestor was able to survive”). Given such a tall pedestal, you think people would be better at separating its fact from its fiction, but apparently that isn’t...

The Chinese national identity has long been tied up with its language, for natives and foreigners alike. A Beijing woman looks at a poster promoting the use of Mandarin and Chinese characters. It reads, “The country promotes Mandarin and pushes to standardize Chinese characters.”...

New York Comic Con is the East Coast’s biggest pop culture convention, and it’s just wrapped for 2011. As always, the show embraces several aspects of geek culture: gaming, cosplay, anime, figure collecting, animation, sci-fi, and of course, comics. There’s a lot to see; frankly,...

Lizard Man or His real name Erik Sprague is a sideshow artist and freak show that is best known for his amazing body modification. He has sharpened his teeth, Full Body tattoo with green scales, subdermal implants, and Bifurcated tongue and now he has recently got green inked lips. Erik...

The coconut crab, Birgus latro, is the largest land-living arthropod in the world, and is probably at the upper limit of how big terrestrial animals with exoskeletons can become. The species inhabits the coastal forest regions of many Indo-Pacific islands, although localized extinction has...

Located adjacent to the Masjid al Haram, the Makkah Clock Royal Tower is one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers situated in the heart of Saudi Arabia’s business district today. A definite must see when travelling to this emirate. The royal clock tower possesses a four full-faced...

A huge statue of Jesus Christ was erected in a small Polish town, marking the end of a five-year project led by the local priest that has divided opinion throughout the country. The effigy stands at a total of 51m (167ft). The statue itself is 33 m, one metre for every year that Jesus lived,...

The coast redwood, the world’s tallest tree, is one of the three sequoia tree species, together with the giant sequoia(Sequoiadendron giganteum) and the dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides). The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) grows in natural stands in a long, thin coastal...

They say, Burj al-Arab was the dream of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, which turned out to be a physical reality years later in Dubai. The tower that resembles the sail of dhow, became the world’s tallest hotel with the height of 321m in 1999, and the iconic tower of Dubai. The...

Nike continues its cool adverts by creating a huge ‘ballman’ sculpture made from almost 3,000 footballs suspended from steel wire ropes giving it the illusion that it’s floating in the air. The cool sculpture is located inside a shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa...

  The scientific name comes from the Greek word “thera” and “phosa”, what means wild animal and light. The most common name “Goliath bird eating Tarantula” was given by some explores from the Victorian era who witnessed one eating a hummingbird and...

A python found in Indonesia is 14.85m (49ft) long and has a maximum body circumference of 85cm (almost three feet) and weighs 447kg (70 stone, 3lbs). It was captured by a 58-year-old python expert from east Java who was summoned to Jambi after locals, who stumbled upon it while foraging for...

Hercules was once the largest dog in the world. Now his name has become associated with a digital hoax, an Internet urban legend. A number of digitally editted photos have been ciculating on the net with pictures of “Hercules, the World’s Biggest Dog”. In the photos, the dog...