Queen Elizabeth II has launched her own channel on the video-sharing website YouTube.
The Royal Channel will feature her Christmas Day message, and has recent and historical footage of the monarch and other members of the Royal Family.
The launch marks the 50th anniversary of the Queen’s first televised festive address in 1957.
The palace said it hoped the site would make the 81-year-old monarch’s annual speech “more accessible to younger people and those in other countries”. [BBC]
The Xmas message video has garnered 346,084 views at the time of writing; I guess the Queen is not doing too bad as a Youtube debutant :)
Former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler on TV show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” last week and stunned the audiences with some dumb moment.
She was asked: “Budapest is the capital of what European country?”
Well, there is nothing wrong if we don’t know where is Budapest; my first guess was Romania and I got it wrong as well (the correct answer is Hungary)… Kellie’s responses beat me though.
Regardless, Kellie managed to raise at least US$25,000 for charity by appearing on the show… it doesn’t matter if she is dumb or not, she is probably doing better than most of us in contributing to the society. Thumbs up for that.
A man competing against his pet dog in a drinking competition on German TV show… can a man drink (drink like a dog to be precise) a bowl of water faster than a dog?
Btw, I think I saw Celine Dion.
A man in southern India has married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony in a bid to atone for stoning two dogs to death, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The 33-year-old man married the sari-draped dog at a temple in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on Sunday after an astrologer said it was the only way to cure himself of a disability, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported.
P. Selvakumar told the paper that he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and strung them up in a tree 15 years ago. [Smh]
I hope the man still has enough sanity to not make love with his ‘bride’.
Olympique Lyon’s Czech forward Milan Baros was caught speeding at 271 kph in his Ferrari, a club source confirmed on Friday (Nov 2).
Local newspaper Le Progres quoted police as saying the former Liverpool player had broken the record for speeding for that French region, set by a motorcyclist who reached 248 kph in 2000. [Soccernet]
It seems like Baros might have chose the wrong career… he should pick motor sports instead of soccer.
World number 4 Nikolay Davydenko (men tennis) has been fined US$2,000 for not trying hard enough during his shock defeat by Croatian qualifier Marin Cilic at the St Petersburg Open on Thursday (Oct 25).
“Nikolay Davydenko was fined $2,000 for lack of best effort in his second-round match against Marin Cilic,” the governing body for men’s tennis, ATP, said in a statement on Friday.
The top seed played near-flawless tennis in the first set against the 102nd-ranked Cilic but then started making numerous errors and committed 10 double faults in the last two sets.
He was warned by Belgian umpire Jean-Philippe Dercq in the final set for not trying hard enough.
“I double-faulted to lose a game in the third set and he gave me a warning saying I was trying to lose on purpose,” Davydenko told reporters after the match.
“I was simply shocked to hear him say that. This is just outrageous. How does he know what I was trying to do? I was so upset with the whole thing I started crying.” [Yahoo]
I never knew that the ATP can actually do that. I think it is a bit harsh though… I didn’t watch the match so I am not sure how deliberate Davydenko was, but every player would have his bad day, and it is probably an unlucky day for Davydenko.
Hungarian escape artist David Merlini has broken the world record for the longest time underwater without air on October 10.
David Merlini with his record breaking feat (Image courtesy of
Dailymail)
The amazing feat took place at Hollywood’s Magic Castle, the world famous club for magicians and magic enthusiasts and home to The Academy of Magical Arts.
Merlini survived without a breath while chained and handcuffed under water in a glass tank for 10 minutes and 17 seconds.
I don’t think I can hold my breath underwater for more than a minute… how about you?
A total of 1,010 bikini-clad women have made history at Bondi Beach, Australia, where they set a world record by posing in the largest swimsuit photo shoot ever.
The shoot will appear in the January issue of Cosmopolitan, and will also feature in the next edition of the Guinness World Records book, out in September 2008. [News]
World record breaking bikini babes
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