‘Zombies’ warn smokers of dangers of tobacco

Commuting may be grim enough while not the looks of zombies on your route to figure. But that’s specifically what some unsuspecting staff encountered as a part of a stunning stop-smoking stunt.

Up to thirty actors carrying Halloween-style masks, representing the damaging effects caused by smoking, approached members of the general public in London, to push a campaign by HealthExpress.

The online clinic is providing free consultations throughout Gregorian calendar month to assist individuals notice an acceptable stop-smoking treatment.

A interpreter for HealthExpress. said: ‘Quitting smoking can considerably improve your health, enabling  you to get pleasure from a healthier and longer life.

‘It enhances your complexion by restoring gray, wrinkled and broken skin to its natural color. Your senses can improve, permitting you to properly get pleasure from the style of food and drink while not the biterness of tobacco in your mouth.

‘Your personal hygiene also will improve as smoking will usually result in dangerous breath, stained teeth and gum illness. apart from these health edges, quitting saves you a substantial quantity of cash as a 20-a-day habit prices over £2,000 a year to keep up.’

The most valuable diamond ever !

A 59.6-carat pink diamond that will be auctioned by Sotheby's in the Swiss city of Geneva in November at a record asking price of $60 million (49 million euros). The Pink Star, an internally flawless oval-cut vivid pink diamond, will become the most valuable diamond ever to be offered at auction, according to Sotheby's. 

Picture: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Island created instantly by an earthquake !

People walk on an island that reportedly emerged off the Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea. A deadly magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the remote district of Awaran in Pakistan's Baluchistan province with enough force to create a small island visible off the southern coast, Pakistani officials said. 

Picture: Gwadar local government office/AP

New nose grown onto man's forehead !

A new nose, grown by surgeons on Xiaolian's forehead, is pictured before being transplanted to replace the original nose, which is infected and deformed, at a hospital in Fuzhou, China. Xiaolian, 22, neglected his nasal trauma after a traffic accident in 2012. After several months, the infection had corroded the cartilage of the nose, making it impossible for surgeons to fix it leaving no alternative but to grow a new nose for replacement.

The new nose is grown by placing a skin tissue expander onto Xiaolian's forehead, cutting it into the shape of a nose and planting a cartilage taken from his ribs. The surgeons said that the new nose is in good shape and the transplant surgery could be performed soon.

Picture: Reuters

Mayors Challenge competition

From right, Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, London Mayor Boris Johnson, and Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, during the Mayors Challenge competition, at City Hall in London. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is offering European cities millions of dollars to be government groundbreakers, tapping his personal fortune to extend his cities-as-civic-laboratories campaign overseas as the end of his own tenure nears.

Picture: Matt Dunham/AP

Golden Eagle takes down a Sika Deer first time observed!

A golden eagle takes down a Sika deer at a nature reserve in Lazovsky District, Russia. The shot was captured by a camera trap set up by Linda Kerley from the Zoological Society of London and her colleagues to monitor Siberian (also known as Amur) tigers in the area. This is the first documented case of such an attack, although golden eagles have a long history of ambitious predation attempts. 

Picture: ZSL / Barcroft

The giant pumpkin !

Kyle Koschmeder and his wife Janelle pose for a photo with a 1,168-pound gourd he raised in his grandfather's garden in Shelby, Montana, USA. His pumpkin beat the state's old giant pumpkin record of 1,039 pounds set last year by Emmett May of Polson.

Panda artificially conceived

Taipei City Zoo's recently born panda cub. The cub, the first panda born in Taiwan, was delivered on July 7 following a series of artificial insemination sessions after her parents -- Yuan Yuan and her partner Tuan Tuan -- failed to conceive naturally.

The birth of Yuan Zai in July, which means child of Yuan Yuan, sparked great joy in Taiwan with local media carrying daily reports and photos on her growth. 

Picture: Taipei City Zoo/AFP

Pictures of the day: 30 September 2013

Retired Japanese Olympic synchronized swimmer Saho Harada poses balletically inside a shoal of tunaPicture: Kurt Arrigo / Barcroft Media

Relatives saying goodbye under the rain

Relatives of Hadj pilgrims wave within the rain, as they see off their relatives who are leaving Ahmedabad for Mecca in Saudi Arabia to take part in the annual spiritual hadj journey. The primary batch of 450 hadj pilgrims set out on Thursday for the annual pilgrim's journey to Mecca, the holiest site for Muslims.

A total of 6,800 pilgrims from the Gujarat state are expected to perform this year's ritual.

Picture: Amit Dave/Reuters

Your iPhone is Built by 13 Year Old Children Working 16 Hours a Day

Did you recognize that your iPhone was engineered (in part) by thirteen year recent children? in line with US country primarily based radio show “This American Life”, these very little souls work sixteen hours daily and acquire simply seventy Cents per hour! though makers in China area unit repetition cars and taking international makers to court, China being the leader of machinery and natural resources, provides the simplest platform to makers from everywhere the globe. we tend to antecedently coated production in China in style of gorgeous footage. Recent stats show that just about all illustrious firms and industrialists have shifted their businesses to China.

The big population of China provides North American country clear reason for affordable labor however things have currently gone excess of the road. people that build our iPhones and iPads don’t have iPhones and iPads as a result of they can’t afford one. employees creating casing of iPad claimed that they need ne'er seen AN actual iPad – well it sounds strange however its true! Foxconn is one in all the corporate wherever Apple merchandise area unit being factory-made (mostly iPhones and iPads). one in all their mill in Shenzhen (a town in China that is even a lot of thickly settled than Empire State, US) has over 430,000 worker. one in all their employee was recently interviewed outside the gates of company. She told that she was thirteen years recent and he or she polishes thousands of latest iPhones’ glass each day. in line with her, Foxconn doesn’t check ages of staff. There area unit on-the-spot inspections from time to time however Foxconn invariably apprehend once they area unit happening. Hence, once the examination team arrives they replace their young wanting employees with the older ones. She told that among several employees she meets everyday, several area unit regarding twelve, thirteen and fourteen in age.

Apple is one in all the world’s biggest and most acknowledged company however this sort of cognitive content (may be for higher profit margin) provides thanks to a negative impact on the company’s profile. creating youngsters work is virtuously wrong, unlawful by law and will be illegal.

The Clash of Civilisations?

Twenty years on, Samuel Huntington’s seminal essay remains misunderstood : The real clash is within civilisations.

He predicted that global conflicts would no longer be motivated by ideological or economic concerns, but by cultural ones. His argument was clear:

‘It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilisations.’

Busiest train ever

This world is full of discrimination and unjust attitudes, this congestion happen in the world where there are thousands of rich people who own thousands of cars and even aero planes..

It's an illustration of the wide disparities prejudice from the upper class to those of the lower food chain..

 

Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims board overcrowded trains as they try to return home after attending the three-day Islamic Congregation on the banks of the river Turag in Tongi, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Never back to Myanmar!

 

Mohammad Rafique, a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar, begs a Bangladeshi coast guard official not to send his family back to Myanmar.

Street fashion show

Fashion addicted girls pose for pictures ahead of a homeless man outside Moynihan Station following a brand new York Fashion Week show in September.

Pictures of people freaking out in a haunted house !

While spooky houses could be completely alarming, there's nothing more silly than seeing the individuals within them be spooked out of their shorts. Gratefully, The Nightmares Fear Factory in Niagra Falls has been permitting us to do only that for quite some time. 

To see more photographs from 2013, and years past, look at their site: http://www.nightmaresfearfactory.com

Down-and-out

We certainly tend to ignore homeless people in our daily lives because generally we feel that we can’t spare the money. How do we justify this when we are in a place where we knowingly give away our money to slot machines and other casino games?

It was in Las Vegas when this photo was snapped as countless people walked past this man who sat in the shadows. No one was willing to spare some change for him but were more than willing to throw away money into slot machines...