Pedro Muriel was tackled by the raging beast during a bullfight at the Malagueta bullring in Malaga. Some might say the attack was karma, after the purple spandex-clad man had harpooned the bull with pointed sticks, known as banderillas.Muriel was gored on the inside of his thigh but luckily escaped without serious injuries after the attack. His ...

Well, he was in one sense. He jumped out of a plane at 4,300 metres. His boat was held in place by two helper skydivers and the student cracked the Cube with a satisfying 2,500 metres to spare. So he had plenty of time to deploy his parachute, float safely to the ground, ...

Designer Pablo Matteoda from Argentina has come up with the coolest tea infuser. Simply fill the Sharky Tea Infuser with loose leaf tea, and let it float around a cup of hot water. During the waiting process, you can see the colour of your tea create a beautiful effect.Hope to see this smart design concept ...

The Magnet women Brenda Allison - who claims that she has a powerful personal magnetic field that makes metal objects stick to her skin. Strangely, this even applies to non-magnetic objects.Not only does the 50-year-old accounts manager from Holloway, North London, say that metal items including coins, keys and even tin lids attach themselves ...

A plastic-recycling machine invented by Dunedin man Peter Lewis is spitting out the building blocks of a multimillion-dollar business. The plastics - from drink bottles to meat packaging - went in one end of the cylindrical machine, which washed, dried and compacted the plastic.A brick emerged every 30-45 seconds, with each formed from 10kg of ...

Ghosts of a Dream is an artistic duo made of Adam Ecksrom and Lauren Was, two talented graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design. They take the used lottery tickets and recreate what people usually dream of winning when they buy them. You could say the tickets go from dreams to complete garbage and ...

Every year, on the second weekend of November, a horrific show takes place in the streets of Medinacelli, an otherwise picturesque Spanish town. As soon as the sun sets, bulls are brought into the town square, surrounded and restrained by the “bravest” of participants. Big balls of pitch are attached to the bull’s horns and ...

Elmer Long is the quirky artist behind the now famous Bottle Tree Ranch. He looks a lot like one of the guys from ZZ Top, but he’s really a fascinating man who loves greeting and getting to know the people who visit his roadside masterpiece. As a kid, Elmer used to travel through the desert, ...