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Naked Man Challenges Pamplona Bull - And Loses

Flying high: The streaker was tossed up into the air by a young calf during the suelta de vaquillas

Naked Man Challenges Pamplona Bull - And Loses: He might have been high on adrenaline and low on sleep - but it was no excuse for this naked bull-runner who was detained by police shortly after being thrown into the air by a young calf. He joined thousands of thrill-seekers to run with the bulls on a crowded fourth day at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona yesterday. Ten people were injured and no one was gored.

But the now infamous streaker, who was tossed up into the air by a young calf in the bullring after the running, was arrested for causing a 'public disturbance'. Several runners tripped, fell and were trampled as crowds raced alongside the massive bulls of the famous Miura breeding estate, founded in 1849. The Sunday run is usually the biggest of the eight that take place annually and is particularly favoured by aficionados because it traditionally features Miuras, renowned as Spain’s largest fighting bulls.

Navarra Hospital reported in a statement that 10 people received treatment for minor injuries including arm and head trauma. Nine of them - all Spaniards of ages ranging from 19 to 41 years old - were kept in for observation. The naked bull-runner suffered minor bruising to his face. Two days ago a 24 year-old Australian tourist was gored in the thigh by a bull, opening an artery, and is in a serious condition in hospital.

Pamplona experts at state television TVE said around 3,500 people had run with the bulls on Sunday. One runner slipped and fell in front of the bunched herd and was trampled near the beginning, a second one tripped close to the halfway point and was seen to be hit by several flying hooves, and a small group jostled each other and hit the cobblestones as the bulls neared the bullring. The run covers 928 yards (850 meters) from an enclosure just outside Pamplona’s medieval stone wall, where the pedigree animals spend the night, to the downtown bullring where fights known as 'corridas' take place each afternoon of the festival in honor of the city’s patron saint.

Sunday’s run was quick at 2 minutes, 29 seconds and would have finished even sooner but for one straggler that looked around and charged at several herders in the ring before being guided into a corral. The largest Miura was a black specimen called Macareno that weighed 695 kilograms (1,532 pounds) while the lightest tipped the scales at a mere 540 kilograms (1,190 pounds), the games and spectacles branch of Navarre regional police said in a statement.

Despite the animals’ size and musclebound appearance, experts admire Miuras for their explosive acceleration, stamina and grace, characteristics that inspired legendary Italian car maker the late Ferruccio Lamborghini to name one of his iconic sports cars after the breed.

Source: Dailymail

Is This The Man' Who Killed Bin Laden?

CIA mastermind finally identified... by his tie

Is THIS The Man Who Killed Bin Laden?

The CIA operative who was responsible for tracking down and ultimately killing Osama Bin laden may have had his cover blown because of his distinguishing yellow tie. The man, known as 'John', is a career CIA analyst whose job for nearly a decade was hunting down the Al Qaeda chief.

His full name is a closely-guarded secret, but now an internet 'spy-hunter' believes he may have identified him from a set of White House photographs including the now-famous picture of senior officials watching Navy SEALs storming bin Laden's hideout.

Last week the CIA told reporters from the AP news agency that John had been in the room at the time but was just out of frame.

Spyhunter John Young studied the photo and noticed a tall man with a yellow, patterned tie standing just outside the frame. He then checked it against other photos taken at around the same time and found one of the man wearing the yellow tie in full view.

The AP story states that 'two days after bin Laden's death', John accompanied CIA chief Leon Panetta to Capitol Hill to testify before the Senate intelligence committee about the operation. Young then dug out a photo of Panetta leaving that briefing on May 3, and clealry visible in the background is the man in the yellow tie.

Nearly all the officials involved in hunting bin-laden have insisted on anonymity because for their own safety they did not want their names linked to the Bin Laden operation.

CIA analyst John was the first to put in writing last summer that they might have a legitimate lead on finding Bin Laden. He oversaw the collection of clues that led the agency to a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

His was among the most confident voices telling President Obama that Bin Laden was probably behind those walls. The CIA have said they will not permit him to speak to reporters.

The Associated Press agreed to the CIA's request not to publish his full name and withhold certain biographical details so that he would not become a target for retribution.

They were told: 'Call him John, his middle name.'

His ability to spot the importance of seemingly insignificant details, to weave disparate strands of information into a meaningful story, gave him a particular knack for hunting terrorists.

John McLaughlin, who as CIA deputy director was briefed regularly by John in the mornings after the 2001 attacks, said: 'He could always give you the broader implications of all these details we were amassing.'

One former boss confessed that he didn't know exactly what John's position was. 'I knew he was the guy in the room I always listened to,' the official said.

source: Kompas. dailymail

What's Inside the Suitcase? Riddle of the Day (4 Photos)

Maria del Mar Arjona from Mexico was visiting her boyfriend in a jail. He was serving a 20-year sentence for a 2007 conviction for illegal weapons possession. The 19-year-old girl brought a large suitcase full of clothes for her boyfriend. When she was leaving the jail guards noticed that she was acting nervously as she dragged a black, wheeled suitcase to the exit. When they unpacked the suitcase, the found her boyfriend squashed inside.

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Weapons of a mexican drug cartels

These are weapons that have been confiscated from the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly all of the weapons that the drug cartels obtain come from the US since weapons are illegal in Mexico. Check more pictures after jump...

Discussion with adults can decrease teens’ marijuana use

Discussion with adults can decrease teens’ marijuana use : A brief, voluntary conversation with adults leads to up to a 20 percent decrease in marijuana use for teenagers who frequently use the drug, according to a new research. To many people, smoking pot is no big deal. They cite reasons such as: "it isn't dangerous or addictive" and "everybody is doing it."

Denise Walker, co-director of the University of Washington's Innovative Programs Research Group, disagrees. "It's not a risk-free drug," she said.

"Lots of people who use it do so without problems. But there are others who use it regularly - almost daily - and want to stop but aren't sure how." "Many teens also have concerns about their use, even if they're not sharing them with family or friends," she added.

The participants in the motivational interviewing group-in which the health educator and student discussed the student's marijuana use and how it might be interfering with the student's life, goals and personal values, and about social norms of how much others use the drug-started the study using marijuana 40 out of the previous 60 days. Three months after counseling they had decreased their use 20 percent, to 32 out of 60 days. After a year they still showed a 15 percent decrease, 34 days out of 60. The study was published in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. (ANI)

Fishermen found giant squid with a length of 7.6 Meters

Fishermen found giant squid with a length of 7.6 Meters : Paul Peroulakis, Robby Benz and Joe Asaro (Florida fishermen) find a giant squid dead along 7.6 meters in Jensen Beach. At that time the fishermen were fishing when a giant blob found in the sea. The fishermen were then brought their ships close to the mass.

When it is, fishermen found the giant squid weighing 100 kg floating in the water. The fishermen then brought it to Port Salerno . “I’ve never seen anything like this. That’s why I took him to Port Salerno case anyone who knows about this squid, “said Robby Benz ..

It turned out that the other fishermen were also surprised to see the giant squid. Florida Oceanographic Society’s Education Director Ellie Van Os said, the fishermen of this ‘workmanlike’ keep it up onto land squid. “It’s always interesting to know whenever there are animals from the depths of the sea,” said Van Os. A spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Segelson Carli said, the squid will be examined bodies and teams from the University of Florida.(link)

Malissa Jones' The Fattest Teenager in Britain is now Anorexic

Malissa Jones' The Fattest Teenager in Britain is now Anorexic: The woman who was once Britain's fattest teenager now has anorexia. Malissa Jones, 21, lost 26 stone (364lbs) after having a gastric band fitted four years ago. She now weighs just 8st (112lbs).

Doctors had warned her that she was close to death at 34stone (476lbs). At aged just 15, she had already suffered from a suspected heart attack, and her massive weight was crushing her internal organs on her 5ft 8inch frame.

But now Malissa has been told she could die within six months unless she eats more. She told Closer magazine: "I would urge anyone wanting surgery to lose weight healthily. I wish I had. "Surgery can have consequences you might never have imagined."

Malissa was the world's youngest stomach bypass patient when she had the £10,000 NHS operation in January 2008.

Malissa Jones at age 6

She consumed 15,000 calories a day from gorging on chocolate, crisps and junk food - seven and a half times the recommended 2,000 calories for a girl of her age. But parents Richard and Dawn were unable to stop her food cravings.