“Even in the middle of a hail storm he still finds time to discipline his wife. He’s a boss!”

“Looks like an Orc took a dump in his ear. Well, that’s what the music makes me think?”

“Fisherman Dan Nowak put the bite on other anglers at a fishing contest – when he hooked a monster 49-inch piranha. Nowak, 28, claims he hooked the normally tropical brute in a stretch of warm water heated by a power station reservoir in Rybnik, Poland. “I’d gone out for carp so you can imagine how surprised I was,” he told local media. But experts are wondering if Nowak’s fishy tale is really the whole tooth.” w/ photos

“Some 105 tons of marijuana has been seized in Mexico, in what is expected to become the country’s biggest ever drug bust. Eleven people were arrested yesterday in the city of Tijuana after a pre-dawn gun battle between members of the drug cartel and police and soldiers – two people were injured. The marijuana was found in six cargo containers in a warehouse, wrapped in 10,000 packages and has a street value of $297 million.” w/ photos

“Creationist version of Evolution.” — Xenophon

“Looking almost as fresh as the day it was bought, this McDonald’s Happy Meal is in fact a staggering six months old. Photographed every day for the past half a year by Manhattan artist Sally Davies the kids meal of fries and burger is without a hint of mould or decay. In a work entitled The Happy Meal Project, Mrs Davies, 54, has charted the seemingly indestructible fast food meals progress as it refuses to yield to the forces of nature... Here are the results of the experiment.” w/ photos

“The enormous 24.78 carat gem is cut into a rectangular shape with rounded corners, and mounted on a ring in between two clear stones. The gem, classified by the Gemological Institute of America as ‘fancy intense pink’ has been assessed as type IIa – meaning it is in the top two per cent of the world’s diamonds. It was sold by celebrity jeweller Harry Winston some 60 years ago and has been in a private collection ever since. It is now on show in Hong Kong and will tour the world before being sold by Sotheby’s auction house in Geneva. It is estimated to fetch between $23 million and $32 million – almost one million pounds per carat. The current world record for the most expensive diamond sold at auction per carat is the Star of Josephine, a blue diamond weighing 7.03 carats which sold in May 2009 at Sotheby’s for six million pounds – $1.1m per carat. David Bennett, of Sotheby’s, said: ‘During my 35-year career I have had the opportunity to examine many magnificent and rare gemstones. ‘But, put simply, this stone is one of the most desirable diamonds I have ever seen.” w/ photos