The Millau Viaduct located in France is the world's tallest vehicular bridge with one mast's summit at 343 metres. Designed by civil engineer Michel Virlogeux, it is a large cable-stayed road-bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France.
Millau Viaduct is located in Millau, France, in the Département of Aveyron. Before the bridge was constructed, traffic had to descend into the Tarn River valley and pass along the route nationale N9 near the town of Millau, causing heavy congestion at the beginning and end of the July and August vacation season. The bridge now traverses the Tarn valley above its lowest point, linking the Causse du Larzac to the Causse Rouge, and is inside the perimeter of the Grands Causses regional natural park.
A 50-kilogram sandbar shark which became celebrity at a Spanish beach was nabbed by biologists with bare hands and dragging it ashore. This shark became a tourist attraction by making daily trips into the knee-high water in the beach - which beach official fear might bite beach goers.
The fish turned into a novelty by swimming regularly into plain view in very shallow water. Bathers gathered daily to snap photos. Police fined several people who ventured into the water to splash around with it. A team of three biologists from the Barcelona Aquarium waded in yesterday and, after two failed attempts before a crowd of hundreds, finally managed to capture the flailing shark with their hands. They quickly stuck its snout into a net to keep it from biting.
Chunky mmonkeys at a Japanese park has been put on diet after being overfed by tourists. About one third of the parks 50 Macaca mulatta monkeys, which generally weigh up to 11 kg in the wild, are now overweight. The heaviest male weighs over 29kg.
The heaviest male weighs over 29kg and does little more than shuffle around the 420-square-metre enclosure waiting for the next hand-out, according to park officials. The monkeys have been put on a special low-fat diet and signs have been put around the enclosure asking visitors not to feed them. But the park estimates that as many as 20 people every day ignore the request.
The Greater Dwarf Cloud Rat which was thought to be extinct was rediscovered, after 112 years, by a team of Filipino and American scientists in Mt. Pulag National Park in the Philippines. It was the first time that the said animal was discovered in its natural habitat.
"This beautiful little animal was seen by biologists only once previously -- by a British researcher in 1896 who was given several specimens by local people, so he knew almost nothing about the ecology of the species," said Lawrence Heaney, Curator of Mammals at the Field Museum and Project Leader. "Since then, the species has been a mystery, in part because there is virtually no forest left on Mt. Data, where it was first found."
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar is expecting their 18th child on New Year's Day who will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. And they said their expecting more.
The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old. The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot (650-square-meter) home. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are home-schooled. Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.
Sam Cunningham suffered 25,000-volt of electric shock but very lucky to be alive. He thrown 25 feet off a railway bridge on to the tracks below by the electric shock.
The 16-year-old is now being treated for severe burns in hospital, where experts say he is "lucky to be alive".
Sam was retrieving a rugby ball on the bridge near his home in Wigan on Thursday evening when a charge leapt from overhead powerlines into the steel toecaps of his boots.
He was knocked unconscious by the fall and all his clothes were burned off.
After paramedics arrived Sam regained consciousness and managed to phone his mother Ann.
Hex, the six legged kitten from Florida, USA. Vets believe the legs, which he does not use, belonged do a siamese twin who did not properly develop in the womb. The kitten is due to undergo surgery to have them removed.
Millau Viaduct is located in Millau, France, in the Département of Aveyron. Before the bridge was constructed, traffic had to descend into the Tarn River valley and pass along the route nationale N9 near the town of Millau, causing heavy congestion at the beginning and end of the July and August vacation season. The bridge now traverses the Tarn valley above its lowest point, linking the Causse du Larzac to the Causse Rouge, and is inside the perimeter of the Grands Causses regional natural park.
