100 k-pound Crane Smashed The House

Yesterday a 100,000-pound crane fell down on the house while removing a tree and smashed it like a dollhouse. Fortunately no one was injured.

THE BEST SUMMARY OF 2013 NEW YEAR FIREWORKS /CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD/ PRAYERS

THE BEST SUMMARY OF 2013 NEW YEAR FIREWORKS CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD

Cities around the world are ringing in 2014, with Berlin, Hong Kong, Sydney and Dubai putting on some of the most impressive fireworks displays during New Year's Eve celebrations on Tuesday. Britain welcomed 2014 with a mixture of futuristic fireworks and torch-lit tradition. For people in London, the New Year offered the opportunity to taste the fireworks. Dubai put on a six-minute extravaganza with 500,000 fireworks fired from 400 locations across the city. Besides the fireworks, there were prayers and hopes for a brighter 2014. Here are some images of celebrations across the world.

Fireworks explode over the London Eye and the Houses of Parliament along the river Thames during the New Year celebrations in central London. Leon Neal/ AFP

Fireworks explode over the city of Innsbruck and the Nordkette mountains in Austria during New Year celebrations. Dominic Ebenbichler/ Reuters

People celebrate the New Year on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Pierre Andrieu/ AFP.

Artistic Google Street Views

Italian artist turns Google Street View glitches into masterpieces

Most people use Google Street View to get around, scout a neighborhood or pretend they are on vacation, but one artist had another idea.

Emilio Vavarella, from Italy, has taken technical glitches found on the ubiquitous service and made them into something greater.

'Report A Problem' is a showcase of some of the more unusual Street View glitches found by Mr Vavarella.

Other projects have attempted to illustrate how to view local nature on the site, or to see flash mobs - but nothing has been done with the glitches until now.

The project is made up of 100 such images, which Mr Vavarella made a selection of available to MailOnline.

Melded together: One building appears to melt into another in this picture

We have a problem: This picture shows where a camera had a technical difficulty

Vortex: This haunting image appears to show a vortex through which another world is visible

Fountain Bridge In Seoul

Banpo bridge has become main tourist attraction. With his nearly 10 thousand nozzles on either side of the bridge that shoots out 190 tons of water every minute he turns yourself from ordinary to an amazing and unique bridge. Fountain bridge would help acknowledge Seoul as an eco-friendly destination amassing more tourist says the Seoul mayor.

5 Crazy Places We Can Go Looking for Diamonds

 

Hold on to your engagement rings. Diamonds, according to an industry report, are falling off a supply cliff in 2018. As existing diamond mines are depleted even as worldwide demand increases—thanks, especially to a newly rich Asia—three months' salary might soon buy you a much punier rock.

But look at the big picture: A diamond, after all, is just carbon arranged in a pretty crystal, and carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe. May we suggest a few other places to look for diamonds in this universe?

Under the ice in Antarctica

SEXPAND

Named after the South African town Kimberly that inspired a 19th century diamond rush, kimberlite is a type of rock famous for containing diamonds. It initially forms deep in the earth, where the high heat and extraordinary pressure are also perfect for forming diamonds. Geologists recently reported vast kimberlite deposits in Antarctica's Prince Charles Mountains. They haven't dug up any diamonds yet, but it's very likely the gems are there, given the kimberlite.

Aside from ice over two miles thick and freezing temperatures, though, the prospective Antarctica diamonds are also protected by 1991 accord that prohibits mining on the continent. On second thought, maybe just head to the warmer temperatures of Siberia, instead.

In an once-secret crater in Siberia

Last year, the Russians revealed the existence of a 35-million-year-old, 62-mile wide crater full of diamonds in eastern Siberia. The crash that carved out the the crater, known as the Popigai Astroblem, had also released enough energy to turn some of the graphite into superhard diamonds. Because these "impact diamonds" were formed by a different process than most, Popigai's diamonds are especially superhard and most suitable for industrial uses. According to the director of the Novosibirsk Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, the deposit of superhard diamonds is bigger than all of the world's known reserves by a factor of ten. Now they just have to mine them.

The massive diamond field was first discovered in the 1970s, apparently, but the Soviets kept it secret because they were already busy with Mirny, the largest diamond mine in the world.

On Saturn and Jupiter, where it could be raining diamonds

It's a matter of chemistry. Lightning tears apart methane molecules, releasing carbon as soot. As the soot floats down, heat and pressure in the atmosphere increases, compressing the soot first into graphite and then into diamonds. When those diamonds finally reach the planets' core, it's so hot they melt. The whole process probably takes a thousand years. Any place where diamonds are actively forming and melting is really no place for carbon-based lifeforms like us. But what a sight to imagine.Diamonds in the sky? How about diamonds raining down from alien atmospheres. According to calculations by two planetary scientists, the volatile high-pressure skies of Jupiter and Saturn are just right for creating diamond rain.

On a planet made of solid diamond

First, astronomers discovered a planet with land masses made of diamond; then they found an entire planet made of diamond. The Jupiter-sized planet is mostly carbon and so dense—denser than any other known planet—that scientists think the carbon must have become diamond. It's 20 times as dense as Jupiter. It is, however, 4,ooo light years away.

In a lab

Synthetic diamonds under a scanning electron microcscope. Ludvig14/Wikimedia Commons

Okay, we're coming back down to earth for this one. While the phrase diamonds are a girl's best friend is an example of stunningly successful mass marketing bullshit, the gem does have special properties that make it especially useful for cutting and as an electrical insulator. 90% of industrial-grade diamonds are actually synthetic. Synthetic diamonds are easier to get in large quantities, and their properties can be tailored to a specific use.

When it comes to jewelry, the human eye can't tell the difference between mined and synthetic diamonds, either. Of course, this greatly concerns the diamond industry, and De Beers has developed machines to distinguish between the two. While synthetic diamonds have been around for decades, only 2% of them end up in jewelry.

A lab, I suppose, doesn't sound too romantic. Then again, neither does a mine. As long as it's economically viable—as long as we keep suffering from the delusion that carbon crystals representing love must be unearthed from the ground—we'll deep digging massive holes in the earth.

But perhaps specially grown and utterly unique synthetic diamonds, custom-made for your loved one in a lab specifically designed for the purpose, could take on their own meaning. You can even turn ashes from cremation into a synthetic diamond. The carbon cycle is not without its own poetry.

Diamond photo via 123dartist/Shutterstock. Antarctica photo via Volodymyr Goinyk/Shutterstock

Life In Graveyard.

How would it be like living amongst the dead? How would it be like having the graveyard converted to a home? This is exactly the case with almost 10000 families in Philippines. It would be interesting to hear about this fact that there are close to 10000 families of Filipino origin living in cemetery in the northern town in Manila. One would be obliged to call them funny people, but it could be like an accident that they made it their home. It is also quite interesting to see people living in mausoleums and the best places to see this would be Manila and no other city.