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Plunges to the ground just minutes from the end of 2,297 ft long crossing over ravine Tightrope walking without a safety net would be scary enough for most people. But one Chinese acrobat took his extreme hobby one step further – by tip-toeing walking backwards AND blindfolded 656ft over a raging ravine. Unfortunately, the stunt didn’t quite go to plan and the daredevil, named [...] The bus ride lasts 3.2 years, which sounds a bit dull, but it is always exciting when it drives by Planet Earth. Asteroid 2012 JU passed within 119,000 miles of our planet on Sunday night, just a whisker away from us in astronomical terms. Indeed, the bus-sized rock came closer to us than the moon does, with our celestial partner spinning around us at a distance of 238,000 miles. Luckily, we were never [...] WASHINGTON — House Republicans, feeling they have scored significant fiscal victories, are moving on to an even bigger challenge: persuading voters, state legislatures and Democrats to alter the Constitution with a balanced budget amendment. In a meeting with his conference on Monday, Speaker John A. Boehner told members that the best thing they could do during the August recess was to sell their constituents on the [...] Per Reuters: Oil rose to settle at its highest level since August 2008 on Wednesday after an airstrike near Libya‘s oil infrastructure raised more fears the OPEC nation’s oil sector could become a target in embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi’s efforts to hold power. News of the strike in Brega, about kilometers (1.2 miles) from a Libyan oil terminal, added to two weeks of fears the unrest could [...] “The world should “be prepared†for even higher food prices next year if cereal production fails to increase significantly, the United Nations warned on Wednesday. The warning from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation came as the body forecast that the global bill for food imports will top $1,000bn for just the second time, adding to fears of rising inflation in emerging countries from China to India. It said the food import [...] |
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