Haitians Eat Dirt Cookies to Survive

The small island nation of Haiti relies heavily on food imports, but with prices soaring, some Haitians are resorting to eating mud.The cookies made of dirt, butter and salt hold little nutritional value, but manage to keep Haiti's poor alive.Worldfocus special correspondent Benno Schmidt and producer Ara Ayer report from Haiti, showing how far some people are going to fill their stomachs.

Shanghai Auto Show on This Weekend

Auto Shanghai is a biennial international automobile show that alternates with the Beijing Auto Show and dates to its inception in 1985. Auto Shanghai became the first UFI approved Chinese auto show in June 2004.Held every two years in the neighborhood of Pudong in Shanghai, China, since the 9th show in 2001, the exhibition has taken place at the Shanghai New International Expo Center.According

Einstein - The World's Smallest Horse

Weighing 6-pounds and standing just 14-inches tall, Einstein is touted as the world's smallest horse, who was born April 22, 2010 in Barnstead, New Hampshire.Einstein's physical proportions are similar to those of a normal-sized foal, and as Rachel Wagner, one of Einstein’s co-owners, who features in the YouTube video at the end of the page, remarks: "He is very perfect looking little boy and not

Arab Censorship

There are some unusual prohibitions in advertising in the Muslim world. They are based on the national and religious peculiarities of Islamic countries.Any advertising including logos that appear in Arabic-speaking countries should be forcibly adapted to the local cultural values and the Arabic language.In order to achieve these goals, you need to understand what various animals and symbols mean

Lion’s Back, Utah

The ‘Lion’s Back’ is a lovely piece of rock near the city of Moab in the US state of Utah. Unlike nearby ‘Potato Salad Hill‘, you can see why the Lion’s Back got it’s name. However, it is not merely for this resemblance that it has found its way onto the hallowed pages of Amazing Stuff. What makes this precipice truly amazing is that people like to drive up it. And back down.

The Making of Extreme Pizza at the Pizza World Cup

This is the World Cup of pizza that was held in April in the northern part of Italy.

Redneck Way of Cooking Bacon

All you need to find is an old Ford Pinto or any other abandoned old car will do.But you have probably guessed already, it’s not very hygienic.

Reporter Toya Chiba Survived the Japanese Tsunami

When Japanese reporter Toya Chiba was asked by his paper to investigate the damage caused by the earthquake to the port city of Kamaishi he knew it wasn't going to be just another day at the office.But the intrepid hack could never have guessed just how close to the action he was going to get.This incredible sequence of pictures, taken by a nearby building's CCTV camera, shows Toya's unbelievable

The Woman Who Eats Sofas

Mother of five Adele Edwards from Florida has the world's weirdest addiction - she can’t stop herself from eating sofas. She has been diagnosed with a rare disorder called Pica after seeking medical help for her addiction to eating sofas. Adele has been eating the foam for 21 years. She said that for the first time she tasted foam when she was 10 years old. For the last few years she had eaten

Ridiculous Bacon Bazooka

This weird bazooka was created for this year’s Bacon Day. A three-foot long, battery-operated weapon encased in 15 pounds of piggy goodness.If you're not terribly impressed with the force of the Bacon Bazooka, please do keep in mind that it's firing a summer sausage here—a model rocket would yield much better results. And for those concerned about the waste of precious sizzlin strips, rest

Top 10 Ghost Towns in America

These are some real ghost towns in the United States. Most of these towns were thriving at one time or another. There are various reasons for their demise. Now they are simply ghost towns.Ruby, ArizonaBodie, CaliforniaCentralia, PennsylvaniaFlagstaff, MaineVirginia City, MontanaCahawba, AlabamaRhyolite, NevadaGlenrio, Texas/New MexicoGoldfield, ArizonaGleeson, Courtland and Pearce, Arizona

Chinese Fake Hard Drive

One guy brought this failed 500Gb hard drive to service center because of some problems. When workers of the center opened it they were very surprised, because there was... 128 Mb flash drive inside instead of the 500GB hard drive. The man explained that he bought this fake Samsung HDD in a Chinese store. Be careful what you buy.

20 Most Unusual and Interesting Guns

This is one of the most unusual collections of strange looking guns that you have ever seen. Some of them are homemade, some of them are military, some of them are just plain weird, and all of them are interesting.

Domesticated Silver Fox

The domesticated silver fox (marketed as the Siberian fox) is a domesticated form of the silver morph of the red fox. As a result of selective breeding, the new foxes not only became tamer, but more dog-like as well. The result of over 50 years of experiments in the Soviet Union and Russia, the breeding project was set up in 1959 by the Soviet scientist Dmitri Belyaev. It continues today at The

Spider Invasion in Pakistan

Spider invasion has some positive consequences for the Pakistani people. It led to a drop in malaria rate.

25 Funny and Bizarre Warning Signs

Have you ever seen a funny sign that made you go, "What?!!"Perhaps you remember the infamous "Cruise Ships Use Airport Exit" freeway sign outside of San Diego, or the old [ North South ↑ ] freeway sign outside Christiana Mall in Delaware?This page is my collection of unintentionally funny signs, humorous church signs and othor visual humor.

Charming Miniature Horse Koda

Miniature animals like this horse Koda are very rare and really charming. It can even live in your house like a pet.

Toddlers and Tiaras Star Eden Wood

Eden Wood is a beauty queen whose face, clothing, hair and accessories are all done on a regular basis for one purpose: winning. She is a beauty pageant queen who was featured on TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras and now she is making her own music video -- all at the tender age of five. The song, called Cutie Patootie is the same one she performed on CBS's The Talk, includes lines like: "shakin' my booty"

Gun Accidentally Discharges

is is a gunshot accident that was just waiting to happen. A man got into his car and when he went to fasten his seatbelt, his Glock 18 accidently discharged. The gunshot blew a 9mm hole through the bottom of the leather seat of his car’s door frame, his underwear, and his pants. Luckily, the man was only slightly injured.The victim says:“What the hell was that?!?” she said. It took me a half a

Munchkin Cats

The Munchkin is a cat breed created by a naturally occurring genetic mutation that results in cats with abnormally short legs. However, the shortness of their legs does not seem to interfere with their running and leaping abilities. The gene responsible has been compared to the one that give Welsh Corgis, Basset Hounds and Dachshunds their short stature; however, Munchkins do not suffer from the