Puting beliung di Joplin, Missouri : Rakyat kita selamat

KUALA LUMPUR - Tiada rakyat Malaysia yang cedera atau terkorban dalam bencana puting beliung yang melanda bandar Joplin, Missouri, Amerika Syarikat pada Ahad lepas.


Salah satu puting beliung yang dirakam

 Menurut kenyataan Wisma Putra, perkara itu dimaklumkan Konsulat Jeneral Malaysia di New York.

"Kedua-dua Kedutaan Besar Malaysia di Washington D.C dan Konsulat Jeneral Malaysia di New York sentiasa bersedia untuk memberi bantuan kepada rakyat Malaysia yang menghadapi masalah berikutan kejadian tersebut.


Kemusnahan yang berlaku


"Selain itu mereka juga sentiasa mendapatkan maklumat terkini daripada pihak berkuasa persekutuan dan negeri mengenai keadaan semasa di Missouri,'' katanya.

Beliau berkata, kerajaan juga telah mengarahkan kedua-dua perwakilan Malaysia itu mencari dan mendaftarkan rakyat serta pelajar Malaysia yang berada di sana untuk memastikan keadaan mereka.


Lagi-lagi kemusnahan

 Dalam bencana itu, seramai 89 orang dilaporkan terkorban. Ia juga memusnahkan bangunan serta harta benda sepanjang laluannya sejauh 10 kilometer.

Buat Salah Dapat Imbuhan : Buat Baik Dapat Cemuhan

Apa nak jadi dengan orang Malaysia?;

Apa nak jadi dengan rakyat Malaysia?;

Apa nak jadi dengan Kerajaan Malaysia?;

Mereka yang buat salah diberikan imbuhan???

Kita lihat apa yang berlaku di Hulu Langat!

Pengusaha/Tuan Punya Rumah yang tidak berdaftar dan melakukan berbagai kesalahan dalam menjalankan rumah kebajikan tersebut tidak dihukum, mungkin belum dihukum sebab siasatan sedang dijalankan.....

Tetapi berbagai pehak termasuk kerajaan telah menghulurkan bantuan kepadanya dengan harapan

"BUAT LAGI BERBANYAK KESALAHAN, NANTI KAMI BANTU LAGI"

Ini menunjukkan orang Malaysia, rakyat Malaysia, Kerajaan Malaysia menggalakkan mereka yang suka ambil kesempatan melakukan kesalahan lagi, dan lagi, dan lagi, serta lagi, lagi-lagi lagi............

Serbia arrests Mladic, will face war-crimes trial

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia on Thursday after 15 years on the run from international genocide charges, opening the way for the once-pariah state to approach the European mainstream.

Mladic, accused of orchestrating the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica and a brutal 43-month siege of Sarajevo during Bosnia's 1992-5 war, was found in a farmhouse owned by a cousin, a police official said.

"Mladic was handcuffed and whisked away," said the official, who added that he had been cooperative. The once burly and widely feared general was not disguised but had false identity papers and looked haggard and much older, he said.

"Hardly anyone could recognise him."

A friend of the Mladic family said he had been put on a plane to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, but Serbia said he was still in its custody.

"On behalf of the Republic of Serbia I can announce the arrest of Ratko Mladic. The extradition process is under way," Serbian President Boris Tadic told reporters in Belgrade just hours before a visit by a top official of the European Union, which told Serbia it must arrest Mladic before it could join.

"This step is a testimony that Serbia is a state which has firmly established rule of law," he said later at a joint news conference with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Tadic confirmed Mladic, 69, had been detained in Serbia, which had long said it could not find a man who is still seen as a hero by many Serbs and whose Bosnian Serb Army was armed and funded by the late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, who died in 2006 while on trial for war crimes.

read more @ http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/5/27/worldupdates/2011-05-27T010433Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-573010-5&sec=Worldupdates

Beware of e-mail on unclaimed funds

JOHOR BARU: Beware if you get an e-mail stating that you have unclaimed funds from the Accountant General's Department. It may be a scam.

Simpang Renggam MP Liang Teck Meng, who received such an e-mail on Wednesday said he almost believed the contents.

“The e-mail contained information on the Unclaimed Monies Act 1965 and even quoted the Accountant General of Malaysia Wan Selamah Wan Sulaiman,” he said at the Chinese Press Club here yesterday.

Liang said to reinforce the contents of the e-mail, the sender also included a link to an article in The Star which quoted the Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Dr Awang Adek Hu-ssein as saying there was a total of RM4bil in unclaimed funds.

“I thought this was an official e-mail until I opened the attachment and found that I had over RM743,000 in unclaimed funds. That is when I knew it was a scam because honestly, I don't have that kind of money,” he said.

Liang said the sender required him to pay 10% of the unclaimed funds as processing fees to the department.

Explaination : why fuel prices remain unchanged

TOKYO: The plight of the rakyat was uppermost in the Government's mind when it decided not to increase the price of RON 95 petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the decision was made despite the heavier financial burden on the Government.

“I hope the rakyat will appreciate the Government's decision because we are only thinking of their plight although from the macro economic point of view, maintaining such a huge subsidy does not constitute good governance.

“It may be a bit difficult for the people to understand this but for those who know elementary economics, they will understand,” the Prime Minister told reporters here yesterday at the end of his trip to Japan where he delivered an address at the Nikkei International Conference and met Japanese captains of industry.

Asked how long the Government would be able to sustain the subsidy, Najib said: “I don't know, nobody knows. It will depend on the price of oil on the world market.”

He said the Government would do its best to look at creative ways of managing the increase in subsidy.

Najib said the Government had initially budgeted RM11bil for subsidies this year but with the increase in global oil prices, the amount in direct subsidies had ballooned to RM20bil.

“This means the Government will have to consider alternative measures when we decide not to increase the price of fuel,” he added.

On claims that the Government's decision pointed towards a general election soon, Najib replied: “People can always connect these two. That is the normal game in Malaysia anyway.

“So it does not surprise me. What is important is that we are always concerned about the plight of the rakyat and that is always uppermost in our mind.”

Najib also said that during his meeting with Japanese businessmen, he told them the Government would continue to maintain its investor-friendly policies.

He also announced that Japanese companies would invest RM3.8bil by the end of next year.

“These are confirmed investments although I cannot reveal the details yet.

“For long-term investments, Japanese companies will invest RM5.22bil between 2013 and 2015 in various projects,” he said.

Bankrup : Greece jual pulau bayar hutang IMF

p/s : Nasib baik Malaysia di bawah pimpinan Tun Mahathir pada tahun 1997-98 tak minjam, kalau tak mungkin terpaksa jual Pulau Pinang ke, Labuan ke, Pulau Pangkor ke, atau pualu-pulau yang lain......

NAMA IMF di Malaysia hangat diperkatakan pada 1997 hingga 1998, tahun di mana banyak negara di Asia mengalami kegawatan ekonomi.

Pada masa itu, agensi kewangan berkenaan tampil untuk memberi bantuan berbilion dolar kepada negara seperti Korea Selatan, Indonesia dan Thailand dengan harapan dapat menyelesaikan masalah mereka.

Misi utamanya ialah untuk memberi bantuan kewangan kepada negara yang mengalami krisis kewangan atau penurunan nilai mata wang secara mengejut.

Bagaimanapun, Malaysia tidak berminat untuk meminjam daripada IMF kerana tidak mahu badan itu campur tangan dalam dasar-dasar ekonomi negara.

Lagipun, sejak ditubuhkan pada tahun 1945, jarang negara yang mendapat bantuan IMF mampu keluar daripada kepompong kemiskinan atau masalah yang membelenggu mereka.

Sebaliknya, status quo yang mencerminkan negara kaya bertambah kaya dan negara miskin semakin tersepit lebih jelas.

Dikuasai oleh negara-negara kaya termasuk Amerika Syarikat, Jepun, Jerman, Britain, Perancis, Itali dan Kanada, mereka dikatakan mempunyai hak dalam menguruskan dana IMF.

GREECE negara yang terkenal dengan pulau-pulau yang cantik terpaksa menanggung akibat berhutang dengan IMF.

Malah, menurut laporan akhbar sebelum ini, mereka mempunyai hak suara dalam semua proses membuat cadangan dan keputusan penting.

Dalam sisi yang lain, selepas gawat melanda Asia pada 1998 dan AS pula dilanda masalah sama 10 tahun selepas itu, kini negara-negara Eropah berdepan dengan kemelut ekonomi yang meruncing.

Bermula dengan Greece, negara yang indah dengan pulau dan penempatan persisiran laut itu menjadi negara pertama di Eropah yang menerima pinjaman sebanyak AS$155 bilion (RM333.5 bilion), diikuti Ireland dan Portugal.

Lantaran gawat juga, pemerintah Greece mula menjual pulau-pulau di negara itu sejak tahun lalu untuk membayar balik hutang negara yang mencecah puluhan bilion euro.

Turut dijual ialah tanah milik negara di Pulau Mykonos, destinasi paling popular di Greece. Semuanya sebagai usaha mengumpul modal untuk membangunkan kawasan tersebut sebagai destinasi pelancongan mewah.

Usaha itu terpaksa diambil selepas negara berkenaan semakin terdesak mengumpul dana setelah menerima pakej penyelamatan IMF.

Kembar Siam : Doktor terkejut mereka berkongsi minda

TATIANA (kiri) dan Krista bercantum di bahagian kepala tetapi berkongsi minda.

VICTORIA - Satu pasangan kembar, Tatiana dan Krista Hogan yang bercantum di bahagian kepala dan berusia empat tahun mengejutkan doktor di British Columbia kerana mereka berkongsi minda, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Sebelum doktor itu mengetahui mengenai perkongsian minda tersebut, ibunya terlebih dahulu mengetahuinya berdasarkan penelitian kelakuan mereka.

Ibu itu pernah melihat Krista berasa gembira memakan sos manakala Tatiana cuba untuk mengelak pergerakan lidahnya walaupun dia tidak menyentuh sos.

Para doktor percaya bahawa kembar berkenaan berkongsi sebahagian otak yang dikenali sebagai thalamus yang menghantar deria rasa ke bahagian cerebral cortex.

Dalam satu temu ramah dengan akhbar New York Times, ibu pasangan itu, Felicia Simms berkata, seorang kembar tersebut boleh mengetahui apa yang dilihat oleh kembar lain.

Menurutnya, salah seorang kembar itu akan memberikan reaksi 'whoa' jika perut saudaranya tersebut sudah dipenuhi dengan air jus.

Profesor Todd Feinberg yang bertugas dengan Kolej Perubatan Albert Einstein memberitahu akhbar itu: "Ia kelihatan seperti mereka sebenarnya seorang individu pada satu ketika."

Datuk Siti Nurhaliza akan sertai Wataniah?

KUALA LUMPUR - Penyanyi nombor satu negara, Datuk Siti Nurhaliza Taruddin dijangka menyertai Rejimen Askar Wataniah pada masa terdekat.

Menurut Menteri Pertahanan, Datuk Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Siti bersetuju menyertai pasukan tersebut selepas direstui suami, Datuk Khalid Mohd. Jiwa.

"Siti bersetuju menyertai Askar Wataniah atas sokongan suaminya," katanya pada majlis Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang 2010 Jabatan Latihan Khidmat Negara dan Pemakaian Pangkat Kolonel Kehormat kepada Ketua Pengarah jabatan itu, Datuk Abdul Hadi Awang Kechil di Kementerian Pertahanan di sini semalam.

Seorang lagi penyanyi, Jaclyn Victor dan bekas pengacara TV3, Maznah Zolkifli turut melahirkan hasrat menyertai pasukan sukarelawan itu.

Tambah Ahmad Zahid, dia turut mengajak beberapa pelakon lelaki untuk menjadi askar wataniah.

Sesiapa yang menyertai Rejimen Askar Wataniah perlu menjalani dan menamatkan latihan 39 jam dalam masa setahun mengikut kelapangan masing-masing sebelum ditauliahkan.

p/s: Tentu ramai peminat Datuk Siti yang akan masuk Wataniah sama, maklumlah akan berlatih rekrut selama sebulan, waduh-waduh, hari-hari boleh jumpa...........



Hummingbird yang hanya terdapat di Amerika Utara



Fenomena Alam : Kilat

Dua imej kilat yang diambil di Belanda, foto 1 tembak kiri, foto 2 tembak kanan lak.

Five bodies retrieved from landslide-hit orphanage; 10 remain buried

KAJANG: A landslide hit an orphanage Saturday afternoon killing five leaving 10 still buried, said Selangor CPO Datuk Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah at 8pm.

Firemen and villagers have managed to pull out nine alive, so far, from the Rumah Anak Yatim Hidayah, Madrasah Al-Takwa, Jalan Felcra Semungkus, 14th mile, Hulu Langat, near Kajang.

The dead and alive have been sent to the Ampang and Kajang Hospitals.

Rescuers rushing one of the injured children to the ward at Ampang Hospital

"Two landslides occurred simultaneously. All the victims did not have time to escape," he said at a press conference at 6.45pm.

He said all those affected were 20 students attending a motivational camp at the orphanage and four caretakers.

A total of 49 students and caretakers were there but 25 excaped unhurt.

He said the body of the first victim was pulled out from the debris at about 4.30pm while the second body was retrieved at 5pm and the third at 6.10pm. The other two were pulled out at about 7.40pm.

The back portion of the orphanage where the landslide occurred

The orphanage was partially buried by the landslides at about 2.30pm on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Deputy IGP Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said that rescuers were being hampered by wet soil that was still moving. It is raining.

He also appealed to the crowd of onlookers to stay back and allow the rescuers to do their work unimpeded.

Gambar rajah kapal Titanic dilelong



Kapal Titanic



LONDON - Satu gambar rajah kapal Titanic yang digunakan dalam siasatan mengenai punca ia karam pada 1912 mungkin dilelong dengan harga £150,000 (RM451,500) dalam satu lelongan pada 28 Mei depan di Devizes, Wiltshire, lapor sebuah akhbar kelmarin.

Gambar rajah sepanjang 9.93 meter itu menunjukkan bahagian kapal yang terkena bongkah ais yang menyebabkan kapal tersebut karam pada 15 April 1912 yang mengakibatkan 1,517 orang terbunuh di Lautan Atlantik.

Ia dilukis dengan menggunakan dakwat India dan dilukis di atas kain linen digantung di dalam bilik perbicaraan bagi memudahkan 100 saksi memberikan keterangan berhubung kes kapal tersebut karam.

Kapal itu karam dalam pelayaran menuju ke New York dari Southampton.

Imej menakjubkan di tasik Iceland



IMEJ cahaya yang menajubkan dirakamkan oleh Stephane Vetter di Tasik Jökulsárlón,
Iceland dua bulan lalu.


REYKJAVIK - Seorang jurugambar, Stephane Vetter berjaya merakamkan gambar cahaya yang menakjubkan di Tasik Jökulsárlón, Iceland dua bulan lalu, lapor sebuah akhbar kelmarin.


Imej ini dikenali sebagai Aurora

 Cahaya itu berlaku akibat partikel yang keluar dari matahari bergerak ke angkasa lepas dan bertemu dengan perisai magnetik Bumi sekali gus mewujudkan satu bulatan di sekitar kawasan magnetik Kutub Utara apabila ia beriteraksi dengan lapisan atas atmosfera.



Aurora




Yang ini bukan aurora, tetapi imej balikan semasa matahari waktu tengahari.

Tengahari di Iceland seakan-akan menghampiri waktu Maghrib di Malaysia, mereka hanya menerima kurang dari 6 jam matahari dalam sehari, ia bertambah pendek sehingga kurang dari 2 jam pada musim dingin-maklumat dan pengalaman dari penulis.

malapetaka : Rumah Anak Yatim Al-Takwa, Felcra Semungkis ditimpa tanah runtuh



Kanopi yang terkambus; tempat mereka sedang berlatih kompang dan nasyid

 KAJANG: Ketua Polis Selangor, Datuk Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah berkata, seramai 49 orang berada di kawasan Rumah Anak Yatim Al-Takwa, FELCRA Semungkis ketika kejadian tanah runtuh itu berlaku.

Katanya, seramai 24 orang terperangkap akibat kejadian berkenaan iaitu 20

pelajar dan empat warden."Difahamkan berlaku dua tanah runtuh serentak pada masa kejadian," katanya ketika ditemui di tempat kejadian.

Beliau juga berkata, dua mangsa yang maut masing-masing berumur 11 dan 14 tahun.

Sementara itu, Tun Hisan meminta orang ramai yang berada di tempat kejadian supaya menjauhkan diri mereka kerana bimbang tanah runtuh berlaku lagi. -BH


Usaha menyelamat sedang dijalankan

Tanah runtuh: 20 orang dikhuatiri tertimbus

Kira-kira 20 kanak-kanak dikhuatiri tertimbus dalam kejadian tanah runtuh di Rumah Anak-anak Yatim dan Anak-anak Hidayah Madrasah Al-Taqwa di Jalan Sungai Semungkis, Kampung Gahal di Hulu Langat hari ini.


Ke Hospital

Setakat pukul 5.30 petang ini, lapan daripada mereka telah dikeluarkan daripada runtuhan itu oleh pasukan mencari dan menyelamat yang terdiri daripada Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat, polis dan Jabatan Pertahanan Awam Malaysia (JPAM).

Selamat

Seorang daripada mereka meninggal dunia dan dihantar ke Hospital Ampang untuk bedah siasat manakala tujuh lagi yang cedera dihantar ke Hospital Kajang untuk rawatan.

Difahamkan ketika kejadian kira-kira 2.30 petang tadi, semua kanak-kanak itu sedang berada di dewan makan rumah anak-anak yatim itu.

Sehingga blog ini ditulis, seramai 5 orang telah disahkan meninggal dunia sementara 12 orang lagi masih terkambus dan belum dijumpai.


salah seorang mangsa yang terselamat sedang menerima rawatan

 Katanya, ketika kejadian 2.15 petang itu, seramai 23 penghuni sedang membuat persiapan untuk menyambut ketibaan rombongan FINAS yang dijadualkan makan tengah dan beramah mesra dengan anak yatim.


"Ketika sedang sibuk membuat persiapan, saya terdengar dentuman kuat. Saya tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa dan terpaksa lari menyelamatkan diri," katanya.

Beliau berkata, sementara menunggu rombongan FINAS, anak yatim terbabit sebahagiannya berlatih kompang dan nasyid.

Ketika kejadian, 23 orang berada di bawah khemah untuk majlis makan tengah hari itu.

Rumah anak yatim berkenaan mempunyai 34 penghuni, semuanya lelaki.

Setakat ini, dua penghuni maut dan enam pula cedera parah.

Sementara itu, seorang penghuni rumah anak yatim berkenaan, Mohd Faizal Isni, 17, berkata, ketika kejadian dia ke tandas dan tiba-tiba kejadian berkenaan berlaku.

Saya nampak kawan-kawan yang berada bawah khemah sudah tertimbus, cuma nampak tangan dan kepala mereka. Semuanya terkambus.

"Masa yang sama, ketika saya menoleh ke belakang ternampak tanah runtuh seperti mengejar saya," katanya

p/s : Takziah kepada keluarga anak-anak yatim yang meninggal.

p/s : Al-Fatihah kepada roh-roh mereka yang telah meninggal dalam tragedi ini:





Quake shakes northwest Turkey, one dead

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 shook northwest Turkey on Thursday evening, causing some damage, and one person died jumping from a building as the quake struck, the local governor said.

The epicentre of the quake was 50 miles (80 km) west-southwest of the town of Kutahya, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The tremor also shook buildings further north in Turkey's largest city Istanbul.

"A citizen panicked and died after jumping from the window," Kutahya Governor Kenan Ciftci told broadcaster NTV.


An empty university building collapsed in the quake, which also shattered windows in some buildings, state-run Anatolian news agency reported.
Turkey's Kandilli earthquake observatory said the quake, which struck at 11:15 pm (2015 GMT), had a magnitude of 5.9 and that its epicentre was the district of Simav in Kutahya province. There was a series of aftershocks.

Residents of Kutahya waited nervously in the town's streets after the quake, television pictures showed. Ambulances were sent out in the affected area as a precaution.

Major geological faultines cross Turkey and small earthquakes are a near daily occurrence. Two large quakes in 1999 killed more than 20,000 people in northwest Turkey.

Thirty needy students from Bau to enter UiTM

KUCHING: Thirty needy students from Bau have received offers from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) to further their pre-diploma courses under the Program Mengubah Destinasi Anak Bangsa (MDAB).

The recipients were chosen based on their SPM results with at least four credits and a family gross income of RM2,000 and below.

The programme initiated by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is to help needy bumiputra students to further their tertiary education.

Under the programme, students would be exempted from paying tuition fees and will be provided with accommodation and allowances.

Well done: Nansian (second right) and UiTM Sarawak director
Dr Jamil Hamali (right) having a conversation with the students
 after the handing-over ceremony.

Assistant Minister of Environment and Public Health Datuk Peter Nansian said the programme was an opportunity for students to pursue their higher education despite their poor background.

“This programme is a stepping stone to obtain higher qualifi- cations despite being poor and living in rural areas where they cannot compete with the urban students who are better off in many aspects,” he said when presenting the offer letter to 30 students at the REDEEMS Centre in Bau, near here yesterday.

Some 600 students will benefit from the programme across the state to pursue their pre-diploma courses in UiTM Sarawak for the May-September semester.

Charity : Air Itam school raises funds for cancer patients

GEORGE TOWN: During the Christmas celebration last year, tragedy struck for 10-year-old student Lau Yan Ni who collapsed and was subsequently diagnosed with leukaemia.

She is now required to undergo daily chemotherapy for two years.


Lighter burden: Yan Ni with her mother and her three-year-old sister Lau Yan Rou
after they received a donation of RM15,000 raised by teachers and students
of SJK (C) Sin Kang in Air Itam.

Her mother Lim May Choo, 38, said her husband as family breadwinner was unable to continue working as a lorry driver as he had to take Lau to the hospital daily while she stayed home with their other daughter, aged three.

As a result of the treatment, Lau is no longer able to attend school.

Her plight drew the attention of her school SJK(C) Sin Kang in Air Itam, and the teachers and students raised RM15,000 within 10 days for her.

“I feel thankful for the generosity as we are facing hardship with the family expenses,” said Lim at a press conference at the school premises here yesterday.

The teachers and students also raised another RM15,000 during the same period for another student Kelly Au Hoey Min’s father, Au Kong Soon, 49, who was diagnosed with nose and throat cancer in January.

Au’s wife Gan Mimi, 35, expressed relief with the donation as they had four young children to support.

“My husband can’t work as he is now hospitalised and undergoing treatment,” she said.

State Town and Country Planning, Housing and Arts Committee chairman Wong Hon Wai also donated RM1,500 from his Air Itam state constituency fund to each family.

First batch of English teachers from US arriving by September

NEW YORK: The first batch of 30 volunteer English teachers from the United States is expected to arrive in Malaysia by September, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.

The Prime Minister said the teachers, who are under the Peace Corps-style project, were being sent to Malaysia under the Fulbright Programme as agreed between him and US President Barack Obama when they met during the UN General Assembly here last September.

Najib said US Ambassador to Malaysia Paul W. Jones met him recently and informed him that the 30 volunteers would be sent soon.

“I told him that Malaysia needs at least 100 such teachers as we want to send them to rural schools to teach English,” he told Malaysian reporters at the end of his visit here.

The Fulbright Programme is the flagship international educational exchange programme sponsored by the US government. It is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and those from other countries.

The volunteer teachers programme came about at the second Asean-US meeting last year that was attended by eight Asean heads of government, including Najib. Obama also attended.

Obama wanted a project to improve ties between his country and the South-East Asian nations.

Najib proposed the US-sponsored Peace Corps programme, which was very popular in the 1960s, to help raise proficiency in the English language among the people of Asean.

Tengkorak Mona Lisa ditemui di biara St Ursula, Florence, Italy.

TENGKORAK wanita yang dipercayai Mona Lisa ditemui di kubur bawah tanah
di biara St. Ursula, Florence baru-baru ini.

FLORENCE, Itali - Para arkeologi menemui satu tengkorak wanita yang dipercayai menjadi model untuk pelukis terkenal, Leonardo da Vinci melukis potret Mona Lisa, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Tengkorak dan tulang wanita itu ditemui semasa mereka menggali kubur bawah tanah di biara St. Ursula, Florence yang dipercayai milik seorang wanita yang menjadi model pelukis tersebut melukis potret Mona Lisa.

Pasukan penggalian mendedahkan pada minggu lalu bahawa mereka menemui bilik kawasan rahsia selepas dua minggu melakukan kerja-kerja mencari di biara St. Ursula yang telah tidak digunakan lagi.

Kubur itu dipercayai milik Lisa Gherardini Del Giocondo.


KUMPULAN wartawan dibawa melawat ke kawasan penggalian kubur
seorang wanita dipercayai Mona Lisa di biara St. Ursula, Florence, Itali kelmarin

Wanita itu yang merupakan isteri seorang saudagar sutera yang kaya mati pada 1542.

Di Itali, Mona Lisa dikenali sebagai La Gioconda.

Beberapa pegawai berkata, tengkorak itu ditemui 1.52 meter di bawah lantai sebuah biara bersama tulang rusuk dan tulang belakang selepas kerja-kerja menggali dilakukan.

Kini para saintis akan menguji asid deosirikbonukleik (DNA) tulang itu dengan tulang dua kanak-kanak yang ditanam dekat kubur tersebut.

Jika saintis dapat mengesahkan tengkorak itu milik model tersebut, artis forensik akan cuba membina semula muka wanita berkenaan untuk dibandingkan dengan lukisan berusia 500 tahun yang dilukis oleh da Vinci.

Penemuan itu diharap dapat menyelesaikan misteri identiti wanita yang menjadi model untuk da Vinci melukis potret Mona Lisa.

Remaja cipta motosikal Transformers



MOTOSIKAL Uno III Streetbike yang belum berubah bentuk.





BENTUK motosikal Uno III Streetbike selepas berubah bentuk.



Benjamin Gulak-pencipta U3

MASSACHUSETTS, Amerika Syarikat - Seorang pencipta muda Amerika Syarikat (AS) berusia 17 tahun, Benjamin Gulak melakar sejarah tersendiri apabila mencipta motosikal berkuasa elektrik ala robot dalam filem Transformers bagi mengatasi masalah kesesakan jalan raya, lapor sebuah akhbar kelmarin.



Motosikal luar biasa itu dihasilkan oleh syarikatnya, BPG Motors dan diberi nama Uno III Streetbike atau U3.

Menurut Gulak, 20, cetusan idea untuk mencipta jentera itu berlaku semasa dia mengikuti bapanya ke Asia atas urusan perniagaan dan mendapati bandar raya Shanghai, Beijing dan Hong Kong mengalami kesesakan jalan raya yang teruk.

Benjamin Gulak dengan ciptaannya

Justeru, dia mencipta motosikal yang boleh berubah bentuk dengan bergerak tanpa roda depan yang disimpan di celah dua roda belakang dengan hanya menekan butang.

Motosikal itu sesuai disimpan di dalam bilik dan dibawa masuk ke dalam lif. - Agensi

Bentuk tapak kaki gergasi di sawah padi



PENDUDUK di Sleman digemparkan dengan kemunculan satu bentuk kaki manusia
gergasi di Minomartani, Ngaglik, Sleman pada Ahad lalu.

SLEMAN, Indonesia - Satu bentuk tapak kaki manusia gergasi ditemui di satu kawasan sawah padi di sini dengan ukuran seluas 3,000 meter persegi, lapor akhbar Tribunnews.com semalam.
Ia ditemui oleh pemilik sawah itu, Rebo Suwardi pada Ahad lalu pada pukul dua petang.

Menurutnya, bentuk itu disebabkan oleh angin dan sebahagian pokok padinya telah tumbang akibat ditiup angin kuat.

Dia berkata, selepas hujan turun dengan lebat, dia kembali melihat sawah tersebut dan mendapati terdapat bentuk seperti kaki manusia gergasi.

Bagaimanapun, polis di Sleman, Yogyakarta akan melakukan siasatan sama ada bentuk itu dibuat oleh manusia.

Seorang pegawai polis, Irwan Ramaini menyatakan pihaknya masih belum mengetahui siapa yang membuat bentuk tapak kaki manusia itu.

Sebelum ini, beberapa lingkaran misteri yang dikaitkan dengan objek terbang tidak dikenali (UFO) ditemui di kawasan sawah padi Pulau Jawa.

Bentuk lingkaran misteri yang dalam pelbagai bentuk itu pada kebiasaannya ditemui di kawasan tanaman gandum di negara-negara Barat. - Agensi

Helen Chuah - Malaysia Born, Mayor of Colchester

Helen Chuah-Gaik Choon

Colchester: Malaysia born Helen Chuah, 61, creates history today as she is made the Mayor of Colchester in Essex, Britain's oldest recorded town, steeped in history and rich in heritage.

Underneath the traditional mayorial robe, Chuah dons her kebaya nyonya specially made for the occasion. This in itself sums up Helen Chuah, the new mayor of Colchester and Helen Chuah, still the Penang girl at heart. She is the first Mayor to be born outside the country.

"Never in my 41 years here since I stepped foot in Colchester as a student nurse, had I expected to stand here today wearing the robe as mayor of Colchester," she said.

The former student of St Georges Girls' School left the island to do nursing in Colchester in 1971 and in spite of several trips back home, she kept returning to the Roman city to serve the community for 37 years before her retirement and her involvement in local politics.

"Colchester is like a second home to me and after being here for so long it is time I pay back to the community which has accepted me as one of them," said Chuah during a meeting at Colchester's Town Hall where she will be serve as the 1636th Mayor.

The Mayor, explained Chuah who had served as Mayoress when her partner Michael Hogg was Mayor in 2001, is the first citizen of Colchester Borough Council and acts as Chair of the Council.

"I used to take messages and notes and casework for Michael and when our daughter, Rachel Ella Chloe Choo Chean, was old enough, I stood as candidate and won by 125 votes," said Chuah.

In Chuah's acceptance speech, she underlines her wish to support several charities - two of which are in Malaysia. One is a hospice in Penang, where her late mother was looked after before her death and the other, a children's home in Petaling Jaya.

"It is a pity that my father who served in the Merchant Navy and also in the police force, is no longer with us. He was the one who encouraged me to read and pursue my education. He loved history and ceremonies. He would have loved the Mayor Making ceremony. He would have been so proud," she added.

As the Mayor, Chuah or Gaik Choon, as she is known to family and friends, will try to bring people and businesses to Colchester as well as introduce the Malaysian link that she is so proud of.

"As a member of the Rotarian Club, we take our friends to Malaysia every year, and many of our friends love Malaysian food. We are going to work closely with Tourism Malaysia and the Malaysia Kitchen programme," she enthused.

"Her acar is already a great hit among our friends," said Hogg who admitted that the mayor making day was probably the most emotional day for him seeing the woman he shared his life with for the past 33 years, being given the recognition she deserves.

Read more: Helen Chuah - Mayor of Colchester http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/HelenChuah-MayorofColchester/Article#ixzz1MkHFphYr

Tun Dr Mahathir in stable condition after being hospitalised, advised to rest

KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who was admitted to the National Heart Institute (IJN) earlier Wednesday for a cough, is in stable condition, his son Datuk Mukhriz said.

Mukhriz said doctors had advised the former prime minister to take sufficient rest.

"There are no problems at all with his heart. Only a cough. Usually, when he has a cough, he needs adequate rest at IJN," said Mukhriz, who is Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister, when met at the IJN lobby after he had visited his father.

He said Dr Mahathir had to undergo physiotherapy as usual, take antibiotics and have adequate rest so as to recover fast, and that his outdoor activities had been curtailed in view of his present condition.

"My mother (Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali) is with him. We do not encourage visits by friends for the moment so as to prevent any infection," he told reporters.

Dr Mahathir, 85, was admitted to the normal ward at IJN at about 6am after he developed fever and a cough over the last two days. - Bernama

Gula daripada habuk kayu

MIMI SAKINAH menunjukkan anugerah Best Women Inventor daripada
World Intelectual Property Organisation (WIP0) hasil projek penyelidikan beliau.

SELAMA ini kita hanya mengetahui gula dihasilkan daripada tebu. Kemudian beberapa tahun lalu, penemuan daun stevia sebagai alternatif gula turut menarik perhatian ramai.

Bagaimanapun, apabila seorang penyelidik muda dari Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Prof. Madya Dr. Mimi Sakinah Abdul Munaim berjaya menghasilkan gula ringkas daripada habuk kayu, penemuan itu bukan sahaja melonjakkan namanya, bahkan membolehkan beliau bakal membuka sebuah kilang tidak lama lagi.

Pensyarah Kanan di Fakulti Kejuruteraan Kimia dan Sumber Asli (FKKSA) itu berkata, melalui penemuan itu beliau telah menerima geran daripada Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC) sebanyak RM500,000 bagi membina sebuah kilang.

"Saya telah menerima geran daripada MTDC bagi membina sebuah kilang dan lokasi kilang tersebut bagaimanapun, masih dalam perbincangan," kata pensyarah berusia 34 tahun itu kepada pemberita pada Malam Cendekia Bitara UMP 2010 di Kuantan, Pahang baru-baru ini.

Penyelidikan tersebut membawa tuah buat beliau apabila berjaya menerima anugerah Best Women Inventor daripada World Intelectual Property Organisation (WIP0) hasil projek penyelidikan yang bertajuk Sustainable Production of Sorbitol From Biomass Using Green Technology Approach pada tahun lalu.

Pengiktirafan tersebut merupakan yang tertinggi dianugerahkan oleh badan antarabangsa kepada penyelidik yang menghasilkan penyelidikan yang memberi impak kepada negara.

baca lagi di kosmo: http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2011&dt=0519&pub=Kosmo&sec=Varia&pg=va_01.htm

Sakit jantung sudah wujud pada zaman firaun



GAMBAR yang disiarkan kelmarin menunjukkan salah satu mumia yang diimbas
dengan menggunakan komputer di Muzium Kaherah Mesir pada 10 Mei lalu.

PARIS - Seorang puteri Mesir yang hidup di antara 1580 dan 1550 Sebelum Tahun Masihi merupakan manusia pertama dalam sejarah diketahui menghidap penyakit jantung koronari.
Penyakit itu dikesan menerusi imbasan komputer yang memberikan imej terperinci ke atas mumia Puteri Ahmose-Meryet-Amon yang meninggal dunia semasa berumur dalam lingkungan 40-an.

Menurut Persatuan Kardiologi Eropah, puteri itu didapati mempunyai aterosklerosis atau satu pengumpulan bahan lemak di dua dari tiga saluran koronari.

"Pada hari ini, dia mungkin memerlukan pembedahan pintasan jantung," kata ketua analisis mumia itu, Gregory Thomas yang juga Pengarah Pendidikan Nuklear Kardiologi di Universiti of California di Irvine, Amerika Syarikat menerusi telefon.

Menurutnya, dia berasa terkejut dengan jumlah pengumpulan lemak yang ditemui itu.

Separuh daripada mumia yang dikaji itu menunjukkan terdapat tanda-tanda pengapuran dalam saluran arteri yang menunjukkan tanda aterosklerosis.

Purata kematian mumia itu ialah kira-kira 45 tahun. - AFP

Detik-detik cemas wanita mahu bunuh diri



LEHER wanita itu sempat ditarik daripada jatuh
oleh seorang pegawai tempatan.

 CHANGCHUN - Ratusan orang berkumpul untuk melihat detik-detik cemas seorang wanita yang memakai baju pengantin berwarna putih duduk di tepi tingkap apartmennya di sini kerana mahu membunuh diri kelmarin.

Wanita berusia 22 tahun itu cuba terjun dari tingkap di tingkat tujuh tetapi dia sempat diselamatkan oleh seorang pegawai tempatan.

Dia dipercayai mahu membunuh diri selepas teman lelakinya selama empat tahun memutuskan hubungan selepas mereka merancang untuk berkahwin.


Namun, wanita itu akhirnya diselamatkan oleh seorang pegawai tempatan, Guo Zhong Fan yang pantas memegang leher, bahu dan gaun wanita tersebut.
Seorang lagi lelaki kemudian memanjat keluar dari satu lagi tingkap untuk menolak kaki wanita itu bagi membantu menyelamatkan mangsa. - Agensi

Seratus UFO di Shinjuku, Jepun

KIRA-KIRA 100 objek terbang tidak dikenali (berwarna putih) berlegar-legar
di ruang udara Shinjuku, Tokyo pada April lalu.

TOKYO - Sekumpulan cahaya misteri yang dipercayai objek terbang tidak dikenali (UFO) berlegar-legar dengan laju di ruang angkasa Shinjuku, Tokyo, lapor laman Rocketnews24 semalam.

UfO itu muncul pada 8 April lalu pada pukul 4 petang dan klip video tersebut disiarkan di laman YouTube.

Menurut individu yang merakamkan klip itu, sejumlah orang turut melihat UFO itu di luar rumahnya.

Dia berkata, terdapat 100 UFO yang bergerak sebelum ia berkurangan sehingga menjadi 20 buah sahaja.

Terdapat dua buah pesawat terbang berdekatan UFO itu tetapi objek tersebut mungkin berada pada altitud yang lebih tinggi, katanya. - Agensi

Pemanah paralimpik cemerlang

ATLET memanah paralimpik negara meneruskan kecemerlangan di peringkat antarabangsa apabila empat pemanah elit melakar kejayaan pada Kejohanan Memanah Piala Jawatankuasa Paralimpik Asia (APC) yang menutup tirainya di Bangkok, Thailand semalam.

Pada kejohanan sembilan hari itu, pemanah elit paralimpik negara berjaya merangkul dua pingat emas, satu perak dan satu gangsa.

"Kejayaan pada kejohanan ini menjadi kayu pengukur untuk menilai keupayaan skuad kebangsaan sebelum beraksi pada Kejohanan Dunia di Itali, Julai depan.

Kejohanan Dunia juga adalah medan kelayakan ke Sukan Paralimpik London," kata ketua jurulatih, Amirullah Ahmad.

Pingat emas Malaysia diperoleh melalui pemanah No. 1 dunia, Mohammad Salam Sidik yang menewaskan Jung Young-joo dari Korea Selatan 6-2 pada set penentuan acara individu lelaki ARW2.

Mohammad Salam yang bergandingan dengan Hasihin Sanawi dan Mohd. Zafi Rahman menewaskan trio dari Thailand, 203-192 dalam acara berpasukan lelaki ARW2 untuk menyumbang pingat emas kedua buat Malaysia.

Kejohanan yang berlangsung di Stadium Nasional Rajamangala, Bangkok itu turut menyaksikan pemanah wanita, Nor Saadah Abdul Wahab dinafikan peluang meraih pingat emas oleh Elisabetta Minjo dari Itali, 6-0 dalam acara individu wanita ARW2.

Gangsa pula diraih dalam acara beregu campuran melalui Mohammad Salam dan Nor Saadah.

Chelsea uji Malaysia

BERITA gembira buat penyokong fanatik Chelsea di negara ini apabila naib juara Liga Perdana England musim 2010/11 itu akan mengadakan satu perlawanan persahabatan dengan skuad Malaysia pada 21 Julai depan.

Perlawanan persahabatan yang dianjurkan oleh Persatuan Bola Sepak Malaysia (FAM) ini akan berlangsung di Stadium Nasional, Bukit Jalil pada pukul 8.45 malam.

Lebih menarik, menjelang aksi persahabatan tersebut, peminat The Blues turut berpeluang mendapat pas percuma menyaksikan sesi latihan skuad kendalian Carlo Ancelotti itu pada 19 Julai.

Begitupun, untuk melihat kelibat pemain bintang Chelsea itu berlatih, peminat hanya perlu membeli tiket perlawanan persahabatan Malaysia bertemu Chelsea di butik Adidas terpilih seluruh negara yang akan mula dijual pada 20 hingga 29 Mei ini. Tiket-tiket tersebut akan dijual pada harga RM58, RM68, RM108 manakala tiket VIP pula pada harga RM388 dengan jumlah yang terhad.

"Pada 2008, kami berjaya mengumpul 55,000 penonton untuk hadir menyaksikan pertemuan di antara kedua-dua pasukan ini. Jadi, tahun ini, kami jangka lebih ramai penonton akan hadir termasuk peminat dari negara jiran," kata Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO) ProEvents Group, Julian Kam.

ProEvents merupakan promoter eksklusif Jelajah Asia Chelsea 2011 dan penaja rasmi bagi perlawanan tersebut adalah Adidas, Astro, One World dan Naza World.

"Selain aksi persahabatan tersebut, pemain Chelsea juga akan mengadakan beberapa program sampingan termasuk aktiviti amal serta perjumpaan dengan kelab penyokong rasmi Chelsea."

Tiket akan mula dijual pada 20 hingga 29 Mei di semua butik Adidas seluruh negara, manakala bermula 30 Mei pula, tiket boleh didapati di cawangan Ticketpro di seluruh negara atau secara online menerusi laman web www.ticketpro.com.my.

p/s: harap OKU, anak-anak yatim dan kanak-kanak kurang bernasib baik dari PDK Selayang yang juga penyokong Kelab Chelsea dapat peluang menonton perlawanan tersebut. Harap ada yang sudi menaja mereka.

Tun Dr. Mahathir dirawat di IJN

KUALA LUMPUR - Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (gambar) dimasukkan ke Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) semalam bagi menjalani rawatan jangkitan pada dada beliau.

Bekas Perdana Menteri itu dimasukkan ke wad biasa kira-kira 6 pagi selepas mengadu demam dan batuk sejak dua hari lalu.

"Dr. Mahathir kini menjalani rawatan antibiotik dalam saluran darah dan fisioterapi dada," kata pembantunya, Sufi Yusoff dalam satu kenyataan semalam.

Dr. Mahathir, 85, yang juga Presiden Yayasan Keamanan Global Perdana dijangka berada di IJN kira-kira seminggu.

Sufi berkata, doktor menasihati Dr. Mahathir agar tidak menerima sebarang pelawat kecuali ahli keluarga terdekat beliau.

p/s: warga PDK Selayang mendo'akan agar Tun Dr. Mahathir akan segera sembuh, Amin!

PTPTN sedia RM6 bilion untuk 235,000 pelajar

PARA pelajar kini boleh memberi lebih tumpuan terhadap pelajaran apabila PTPTN menambah pinjaman dari RM20 bilion kepada RM60 bilion pada tahun ini.

MARAN - Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional (PTPTN) memperuntukkan sebanyak RM6 bilion untuk pinjaman kepada 235,000 penuntut institusi pengajian tinggi awam dan swasta pada tahun ini.

Pengerusinya, Datuk Ismail Mohamed Said berkata, peruntukan itu sebagai usaha berterusan kerajaan melahirkan generasi baharu negara yang berpendidikan tinggi.

"PTPTN menambah jumlah pinjaman daripada RM2 bilion kepada RM6 bilion tahun ini supaya pelajar dapat menumpukan perhatian penuh kepada pelajaran," katanya selepas majlis penyerahan Wang Pendahuluan Pembiayaan (WPP) peringkat Parlimen Kuala Krau di Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Jengka di sini semalam.

Sementara itu, beliau berkata, PTPTN memungut hutang sejumlah RM600 juta daripada peminjam yang disenarai hitam dan tidak dibenar keluar negara sejak langkah itu dilaksana dengan kerjasama Jabatan Imigresen pada tahun lepas.

p/s ; Harap mereka panadai bereterima kasih dan bersyukur di atas kemudahan yang disediakan serta akan membayar pinjaman tersebut sebaik mungkin.

Serial splasher strikes again

KUALA LUMPUR: Another woman has fallen victim to the serial splasher, this time in Wangsa Maju, the first reported in the area since the attacks began early March.

This makes it a total of 21 people who have been splashed with corrosive liquid, although police have yet to release a photofit or CCTV footage of the suspect.

City police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said the woman, in her 30s, was splashed with the corrosive liquid while she was in her car Friday morning.

"The 8.45am incident occurred near Section 10, Wangsa Maju.

"The woman was driving with her window down, when a man on a motorcycle splashed her," he told reporters after a shooting competition between city police and the media at the Police Training Academy (Pulapol) here.

"The woman did not suffer any serious injuries, but only complained of slight skin irratation," he added.

DCP Zulkifli said police were investigating if the latest case was related to multiple splasher incidents since March.

It was reported in The Star Friday that police had narrowed down the hunt for the elusive corrosive liquid splasher.

The report quoted Bukit Aman CID Director Commissioner Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Zinin as saying that police had a better idea of the splasher's appearance based on descriptions from victims, eye witnesses and CCTV footage.

The attacks began on March 2 when eight students and a teacher from SK Bukit Bandaraya in Jalan Bangkung, Bangsar, were splashed with a burning liquid by a motorcyclist.

Since then, more than 20 people have suffered minor or severe burns from such attacks.

The latest incidents were last week when five others, including a year-old baby, were splashed with the liquid within a 48-hour period.

List of 15 food items to be barred in school ready in June

KEMAMAN: The fifteen food items deemed unhealthy for children is expected to be finalised by next month, says Deputy Health Minister Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin.

The proposal by the ministry's Nutrition Division was expected to be completed this month, but discussion with the Education Ministry was still ongoing, she said.

"We are also looking into several concerns raised by the public.

"We are putting such concerns into perspective before finalising the list," she said after launching the Kemaman Umno division meeting here Friday.

Rosnah said among the food items considered to be unhealthy for children were:

• candies,
• preserved food,
• food with artificial flavour,
• processed food like burgers and nuggets
• as well as carbonated drinks.

"In line with the proposal, the ministry had also identified 60 types of healthy food like fried rice, kuey teow soup and noodle soup to be sold by canteen operators.

"We are taking every consideration as well as opinions from all parties before finalising the list, thus there is no sense in rushing it," she said.

On another matter, Rosnah also tipped Terengganu as a potential destination for health tourism, given the state government emphasis on health industry.

"The state has made headway in making innovation in health.

"Thus, with bustling tourist destination such as Lake Kenyir and Pulau Kapas, I see no reason why the state cannot be a health tourism destination," she said.

So far, only Penang and Klang Valley are the destinations for health tourism in the country, she added.

More in The Star on Saturday

Police release photofit of corrosive liquid splasher



The photofit of the corrosive liquid splasher

KUALA LUMPUR: Police have released a photofit of the corrosive liquid splasher.
The photofit was produced based on information from a witness of a possible attempt by the splasher in Jalan Desa Pandan yesterday and other victims.

The witness told police about seeing a man on a black Honda EX5 motorcycle about to uncap a plastic bottle. The witness said the man fled after realising that he had been spotted.

The suspect wore a full-faced black helmet.

City CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Ku Chin Wah urged the public to help police catch the splasher.

“He is believed to be in his 30s and was on the motorcycle that had a false registration number,” said SAC Ku.

Those with information on the splasher can call the police at the Rakan Cop hotline (03-2115 9999) or SMS POLISKL at 32728.

Meanwhile, Friday the 13th proved unlucky for a woman in Wangsa Maju, when she became the latest victim of the splasher.

This brings the number of victims to 21.

City police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said the woman, in her 30s, was splashed while she was in her car.

“The incident occurred at 8.45am near Section 10 in Wangsa Maju,” he said.

“She was driving with the driver's side window down when the splasher came up to her side,” DCP Zulkifli told newsmen after a shooting competition between City police and the Media at the Malaysian Police Training Academy yesterday.

DCP Zulkifli said that the woman did not suffer serious injuries.

Terjun bungee 105 kali



SCOT HUNTLY (dalam bulatan) membuat terjunan bungee
sebanyak 105 kali dari Jambatan Bloukrans, Afrika Selatan.

CAPE TOWN – Seorang eksekutif syarikat perlombongan, Scott Huntly, 49, membuat 105 kali terjunan bungee dari Jambatan Bloukrans di Afrika Selatan dalam tempoh tujuh jam 30 minit, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.
Dia yang berasal dari Edinburg, United Kingdom membuat terjunan itu pada Ahad lalu dan aksinya dipantau oleh seorang pegawai Guinness Book of Records.

Terjunan itu memerlukan sebelah kaki diikat dengan tali dari satu kawasan yang tinggi.

Rekod sebelum ini dicipta oleh seorang penerjun di New Zealand yang membuat terjunan sebanyak 104 kali dalam tempoh 10 jam 30 minit.

Kapal terbang jadi restoran



PESAWAT lama DC6 diubah suai menjadi sebuah restoran
di Lapangan Terbang Coventry, Britain.

 COVENTRY – Sebuah pesawat lama, DC6 yang pernah digunakan pada tahun 1950-an diubah suai menjadi restoran 40 tempat duduk di Lapangan Terbang Coventry, Britain.

Pihak pengurusan restoran itu juga memberi peluang kepada pengguna untuk berjalan di kokpit pesawat tersebut