The so-called "major countries" often get the most attention from Miss World audiences. But while Miss USA and Miss Brazil will always get their share of the popular vote, what about Miss Kazakhstan? Miss Chinese Taipei? Miss Angola? Miss World pageant features 109 contestants this year -- a record -- so we want to celebrate those slightly more obscure girls in the running for the prize. That's ...

James Kuhn, 46, is an artist with a thousand faces ... well, 365 faces at least. Every day this year, Kuhn has created a new persona for himself using the world's most inventive face paintings, and then shared those creations with the world via his blog and Flickr page. Check out our favorites below, and let us know what you think in the comments. No Regrets: The Worlds Worst ...

October is Raptor Month. Sure, it's almost over and it's actually more concerned with the avian raptors -- hawks, eagles and such. Nevertheless, we thought it would be worth considering a few things about the first kind of raptor. Thought to be no bigger than a turkey, the velociraptor is one of the only dinosaurs to have been found fossilized in mortal combat. So clearly, the raptor was a tough ...

A German man is recovering well after becoming the recipient of the world's first double arm transplant. The man, a dairy farmer, lost his arms in a combine harvester accident six years ago. The incredible operation to attach his new limbs took the work of more than 40 surgeons and medical assistants. Doctors now think the man, Karl Merk, could have full use of the new arms within two years. The ...

The attack of the unstoppable walking dead is the most terrifying non-real threat facing humanity today. Zombies have inspired representations in art, music and claymation YouTube videos. However, we're pretty sure there has never been a scarier vision of the zombie menace than the LEGO Zombie Apocalypse. Based around a competition taking place at this year's BrickCon LEGO convention, builders ...

Rebel metal noise-niks Rage Against The Machine were shut down from playing a protest gig at the Republican National Convention, but as anyone who has ever heard "Killing in the Name Of" knows, it takes more than that to stop Morello and de la Rocha. ...

We don't want to panic anyone, but a minion of Satan recently washed up on a beach in Montauk, N.Y. The deceased beast looks a bit like a dog with the sharp beak of an eagle, or possibly a shell-less turtle with the dark eyes of a griffin. Either way, it's definitely a portent of the coming apocalypse. According to the tipster quoted by the Manhattan media types at Gawker, there is "a government ...

Prev Next The Albert HUBO is a humanoid robot built in 2005 by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. It has a voice synthesizer and voice recognition technology, and also has advanced vision sensors. And it has Albert Einstein's head! Why would you spend all that money on a robot, only to inflict upon it the ugliest animatronic head ever created? Plus, the two ...

Prev Next The CB2, or as it is affectionately known, the most disturbing machine ever built, is a strange, evil robot sent from the future to destroy us all. Supposedly built to mimic the movements and thoughts of a 1-year-old baby, the machine can roll around, stand up and complete 51 other movements using 200 sensors. Designed in Japan, the robot is coated in white putty, giving it a ...

Prev Next The WD-2 robot is a shape-shifting disembodied head that can accurately model the human face by using more than 17 points of movement. It can change facial expressions at almost the same speed and with the same flexibility as a human, and researchers say it could one day be used to make robots more realistic and lifelike. Well, at least that's the theory. In practice, the ...