Google Earth Captures UFO
Google Earth has compiled a photo gallery of mysterious images taken by satellite above our planet.
The bird's-eye photos include an "unidentified flying object" that appears to hover over a field, crop circles, concentric shapes etched into the earth, strange patterns, and advertising that can only be seen from the air.
Google Earth is a Google application that enables users to view landmarks, buildings and entire cities in satellite photos.
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Doctors Remove World's Largest Malignant Tumordailymail - Doctors have removed a tumor weighing nearly four stone from a woman in Argentina. It had been growing inside her body for 18 months.
The huge three stone 8.7lbs growth was taken out of the 54-year-old's womb during a four-hour operation at a hospital near the capital Buenos Aires.
The unnamed patient was discharged weighing just over 16 and a half stone - five stone 7lbs less than when she was admitted.
Medics say they believe the malignant tumor is the biggest ever removed in the world. Malignant tumors of this type usually weigh between 4lbs and 7lbs.
Lead surgeon Dr Oscar Lopez said: 'I've never seen anything like it in my 34 years of medical service.
'In medical literature a giant tumor is one that weighs more than 8.8lbs. But we've not found any references to a larger tumor.
'Its weight is comparable to that of a four-year-old boy's. In layman's terms, it was as if this woman had been pregnant with quintuplets.
'I haven't been able to establish its length but it's diameter is similar to the oil cans they sell in petrol stations.'
The woman, who comes from the town of Lomas de Zamora on the outskirts of Buenos Aires where the surgery took place, had suffered constant abdominal growth for the past year and a half.
She had trouble performing everyday tasks like walking and bending down to tie up her shoe laces.
She was referred to Gandulfo Hospital, where surgeons operated on her, from another medical centre.
A team of specialists performed a laparotomy on the woman. This meant they cut through her abdominal wall before separating her intestines and bladder and removing her uterus, ovaries and the tumor.
The woman is now back at home after being kept in hospital for five days following the operation.
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Rare ‘Fire Tornado’ Filmed in Brazil
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A fire tornado caused by brush fires and strong winds has stopped motorway traffic as drivers in Brazil gawped at the rare phenomenon.The whirlwind of flames burned through fields beside the road in the northwest city of Aracatuba in Sao Paulo state. But, as quickly as it appeared, the roaring twister fizzled down and just a smouldering line in the land remained.
The firestorm followed a drought which has led to brush fires across Brazil. Fire tornados, also known as fire whirls or fire devils, are rare and depend on certain air temperatures and currents to create a vertical, rotating column of air.
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Taliban Continues to Poison Schoolgirls
CNN - Dozens of schoolgirls and teachers were sickened Wednesday by poison gas in Afghanistan, medical and government officials said.
The latest incident, this one at a high school, is the ninth such case involving the poisoning of schoolgirls, said Asif Nang, spokesman for the nation's education ministry.
Dr. Kabir Amiri said 59 students and 14 teachers were brought to the hospital, and were faring better.
"We don't have good equipment to verify the kind of gas that they were poisoned with, but we have taken their blood tests to send to Turkmenistan for verifying the type of gas" that was used, Amiri said.
Many Afghan girls were not allowed to attend school during the Taliban's rule from 1996 to 2001. Girls' schools began reopening after the Islamist regime was toppled. The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, estimates that 2 million Afghan girls attend school these days.
But female educational facilities, students and teachers have come under vicious attack as the insurgency has strengthened and spread from Taliban strongholds in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand.
A report compiled last year by the humanitarian agency CARE documented 670 education-related attacks in 2008, including murder and arson. Much of the violence in what CARE called an "alarming trend" occurred at girls' schools.
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Goalllllllllll!
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Reporter Jessica Kastrop was the ultimate professional as a stray kick struck her at more than 100mph during a pre-match warm up.
The German's head was sent plunging forward with the massive impact but incredibly she bounced right back.
The ball had been kicked by former Chelsea star Khalid Boulahrouz who dispatched a long-range effort during practice ahead of a Bundesliga pre-season clash in Stuttgart.
It hit her with such force her knees buckled and she had to brace herself against a lectern to stop herself collapsing in a heap.
Jessica said afterwards: "I was fine - eventually. Boulahrouz ran over to me straight away and apologised."
Fortean / Oddball News - 8/26/2010
