Rocking the Weeknights

Updated: Friday, 19 Feb 2010, 11:25 PM PST
Published : Friday, 19 Feb 2010, 11:14 PM PST

• Reporter:
  Mark Thompson

• Video Story Producer:
  Martin Burns

Posted by: Tony Spearman / myFOXla.com

Hollywood - Most partiers wait all week for Saturday night, but promoters at Hollywood’s best clubs are turning mid-week into celebrity-studded, jam-packed events.

Mark Thompson show us some of the Hollywood clubs that are "rocking the weeknights" in this video report.

World's Tallest and Shortest Men Meet

Updated: Friday, 15 Jan 2010, 11:46 AM PST
Published : Friday, 15 Jan 2010, 11:44 AM PST

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(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Together at last. The world's tallest man met the world's shortest man Thursday at a shopping mall in Istanbul, Turkey.

Sultan Kosen, who stands 8 feet, 1 inch tall, is officially the world's tallest man according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Kosen welcomed China's He Pingping, the world's shortest man, to Turkey.

Twenty-one-year old Pingping stands at only 2 feet, 5 inches.

"I had a hard time seeing him. There is a big altitude difference," Kosen said, reported Sky News .

The two met at the opening of a Guinness World Records road show.

Kosen suffers from pituitary gigantism and holds the records for the largest hands and feet. Pingping was born with a condition called primordial dwarfism.

The event was part of the Guinness World Records live show, which allows the general public to try and make it into the record books.

Body Scanner Use Prompts Privacy Fears

Updated: Wednesday, 30 Dec 2009, 8:42 AM PST
Published : Tuesday, 29 Dec 2009, 10:22 PM PST

• 

  Reporter:
  Ed Laskos

Posted by: Tony Spearman

Los Angeles - One of the devices that could have prevented last Friday's failed attack is a full body scanner, which can see if anyone is hiding explosives under their clothes.

By using the body scanners, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hoping to detect non-metallic weapons such as plastic and liquid explosives that would not be found by metal detectors.

Metal detectors, which cost about $10,000, have been used in airports since 1973. The body scanners cost approximately $170,000.

The body scanners have raised concerns among privacy advocates.

"We're getting closer and closer to a required strip-search to board an airplane," Barry Steinhardt of the American Civil Liberties Union had told USA Today in 2008.

However, the TSA says the images don't reveal as much as people think. "We've struck a very good balance between security and privacy," TSA spokesman Christopher White said.

Others are also worried about exposure to radiation with the new machines, but the TSA says the scanners bounce harmless "millimeter waves" off passengers' bodies and use no radiation.

Giant Cheese Sculpture at Indiana Fair

Updated: Thursday, 13 Aug 2009, 5:54 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 13 Aug 2009, 5:26 PM EDT

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(MYFOX NATIONAL) - This year’s Indiana State Fair is featuring a milky masterpiece – a sculpture made entirely of cheese.

The work of art depicting a family shopping was carved out of two 640-pound blocks of cheddar, and also includes gouda, white cheddar, pepper jack and even string cheese.

The sculpture was commissioned by the American Dairy Association of Indiana.

Sarah Kaufmann spent five days inside a cooler creating the sculpture.

"I started this sculpture on Friday morning with the big 640-pound blocks in place already. … The rest of these pieces are all slabs that came out of the middle of the sculpture. I would say it's taken me about 75 hours to complete this project," Kaufmann says.

Life-Sized Cheese Santa Completed

Santa Sculpted in 640 Pounds of Cheese

Updated: Friday, 18 Dec 2009, 10:19 AM EST
Published : Monday, 14 Dec 2009, 1:17 PM EST

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(MYFOX NATIONAL) - A Wisconsin grocery store celebrated a "dairy" Merry Christmas with a life-sized version of Santa. Artists used 640 pounds of mild cheddar cheese to sculpt a 5-foot 6-inch St. Nick.

Pick and Save, a Milwaukee grocery store, is displaying the cheesy sculpture of Santa Claus for the holidays. The Wisconsin Milk Board sponsored the event.

The leftovers from the carving were served as samples at the supermarket, according to WKOW-TV reports.

Jellyfish Sink 10-Ton Fishing Boat

Jellyfish Sink 10-Ton Fishing Boat

Updated: Monday, 02 Nov 2009, 11:52 AM PST
Published : Monday, 02 Nov 2009, 11:30 AM PST

By LILY FU

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - A 10-ton fishing boat capsized after its crew attempted to haul in a net full of large jellyfish off the eastern coast of Japan.

The Telegraph reports that dozens of Nomura's jellyfish -- each of which can weigh up to 440 pounds and can grow up to 6 feet in diameter -- sunk the boat called the Diasan Shinsho-maru and sent the three crew members into the sea. They were rescued by another boat.

Experts told the Telegraph that weather and water conditions have been favorable toward the breeding of large numbers of jellyfish recently.

"The arrival is inevitable," Professor Shinichi Ue at Hiroshima University, told the Yomiuri newspaper . "A huge jellyfish typhoon will hit the country."

Nomura's jellyfish have been known to wreak havoc in Japanese waters. They destroy fishing nets, poison the fish caught in the nets rendering them unsaleable, sting humans and even disable nuclear power stations by blocking pumps used to cool the reactors.

In 2007 the Telegraph reports that there were 15,500 reports of damage caused to fishing equipment by jellyfish. Many fishermen have tried to keep jellyfish out of their nets by using sharp wires.

Caught on camera: naked love rival flees furious husband

Caught on camera: naked love rival flees furious husband
A naked man who climbed out of a window and hid on the ledge to escape his lover's furious husband has been caught on camera.

Published: 2:31PM GMT 31 Oct 2009
A naked man who climbed out of a window and hid on the ledge to escape his lover's furious husband has been caught on camera.
Love cheat Sun Meng has been given the cold shoulder by his community after pictures of him cowering naked on an air conditioner were posted online by a furious husband. Photo: CEN

Sun Meng has been given the cold shoulder by his community after the extraordinary picture of him cowering naked outside the flat were posted on the internet.

Photographs of the anrgy showdown, taken by a startled neighbour, were uploaded to a local community website.

They show Sun perched on the first floor ledge while his lover is confronted by her un-named husband inside.

"My family is ashamed and none of my own neighbours will talk to me any more," said Sun.

"I know what I did was wrong but I was afraid he would kill me.

"People are even laughing at how I look naked - but I have to point out it was a very cold day," he added.

Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan province in south-western China, has a population of about 11 million.

In 2003, the Chinese government relaxed its traditional hold over the private lives of its subjects by allowing them to marry without the permission of their bosses.

The government published three lengthy documents dealing with marriage laws and population control.

The terrified 25-year-old fled from the balcony window when he was caught in bed with the man's wife at the married couple's flat in Chengdu, central China.