The Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, Arizona recently launched a 14-metre long paper aeroplane, in world record attempt. Because that’s the kind of stuff you have to do to get press when you’re an Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. Check the launch after the jump.

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A Hout Bay shop owner faces legal action from world famous Italian design house, Dolce & Gabbana, over her alleged “misuse” of the Italian brand by calling her small gift store, Dolce and Banana. Italian sense of humour FAIL!

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“What if the one you loved literally didn’t recognize you anymore? Would you know how to win your soulmate’s heart all over again?” The interwebs is buzzing in anticipation of the May 11 2012 release of The Vow, and not only because the film stars two bastions of the romantic drama Hollywood set in Channing […]

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Rael Levitt is apparently readying himself to expose widespread corruption across the auctioneering industry in an attempt to save himself, but there’s still little word on exactly where he is. All the while, other skeletons seem to be freely emerging from the cupboard too.

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After a motorcyclist decides to split lanes in Brazil, a nearby motorist berates him for doing so. He responds by kicking her car. Mistake. Watch as she rams him and his bike into the vehicle in front of her. Not giving up without a fight, however, the biker jumps onto her bonnet and clings on for dear life as she speeds away.

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6’1′ bombshell, Jenna Talackova of Vancouver was disqualified from the Donald Trump-owned Miss Universe Canada beauty pageant for “not meeting the requirements to compete despite having stated otherwise on her entry form,” according to competition officials. By which they mean she was disqualified for being born with male genitalia.

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French President, Nicolas Sarkozy announced late last week that his government will make visiting websites that advocate terrorism or hate a crime, punishable by fines or even prison. Au revoir, internet freedom?

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A U.S. Department of Defence publication recently released this amateur footage of an Apache AH-64 military helicopter losing control and crashing in Afghanistan’s Paktiva province. We’ve got the shocking footage, and the official explanation for this US$20 million whoopsie, after the jump!

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While we know Kim Kardashian will do absolutely anything to drum up some publicity for herself, it’s unlikely that she would orchestrate a stunt that would ruin her red carpet look for her own event. Kim got a nasty surprise as she received a face full of flour (not flowers) from a mystery ‘bomber’ at the launch of her new perfume, True Reflection, last night.

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An 11-year-old schoolboy from Constantia, Cape Town, has endured a three-hour chess match against the man widely known as the greatest chess player ever. The match ended in a draw, and was part of the Cape Town launch of the Kasparov Chess Foundation in Africa. But, we have little doubt Daniel Barrish wouldn’t be claiming this one at break-time today.

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So! Nokia filed a patent for the world’s first vibrating tattoo, to alert users about call, text message or email alerts. Because that’s something people would want. The idea being that Nokia’s haptic tattoo would transmit “a perceivable impulse” through the skin whenever it receives magnetic signals from a phone. The future is gross.

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A series of violent photographs claiming to be leaked from a gangster’s mobile phone have become an online sensation. Attracting nearly 5million hits, the pics show a young (but portly) Chinese man showing off his love for stacks of cash, German sports cars, parading around topless and dishing out savage beatings. Full gallery inside.

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Despite his insistence that Pretoria’s name would be history by the end of this year, it seems Tshwane Metro’s mayor, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, has had to concede that while the city name “Pretoria” will stay, a handful of street names will be made over. Details after the jump!

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Just over two months ago the internet exploded with joy when Walk Off The Earth brilliantly covered Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know. At the beginning of last month, parody ensemble The Key Of Awesome covered Gotye’s cover with spectacular results. Click through for the video.

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It’s not uncommon for under-privileged people to be given access to basic rights like healthcare, housing and clean water. Brazil has taken this to a whole new level – trying to show that the right to beauty is just as important. If you’re not beautiful, and can’t afford to be beautiful, then don’t worry – just go to the free clinic!

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In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Samsung has partnered with SES satellite services to drive digitalisation in Africa. The free service will be available on selected Samsung LED TV’s, and will provide access to 60 free-to-air TV channels that do not require a separate decoder.

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There’s an old Southampton pub called The Hobbit under threat from the company that controls Lord of the Rings licensing. The company eventually agreed to sell the pub a license to keep using the name it has had for decades. Stephen Fry and Ian McKellan decided this was stupid, so they paid the fee themselves.

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It seems the debate surrounding the ability to properly domesticate all kinds of dogs is far from over. A three-year-old girl in London had her ponytail ripped off her head after a South African Boerboel dog in a public park mauled her. The dog in question has since been put down and its owner reported to the procurator fiscal.

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Electronics companies don’t have it as easy as they used to, especially since Apple came along. They have to make you really want their products – especially in the field of cellphones and computers. SONY has enlisted the help of Wes Anderson, to help them out with a new 60-second stop-motion ad. Click ‘continue’ to see the spot.

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Here’s some great news for the swimmers amongst you. The City of Cape Town is about to launch a first-of-its-kind initiative to clean up the water running into three popular bathing areas. The project aims to improve the quality of storm water at two outlet sites in Three Anchor Bay and another at Rocklands, between Sea Point and Mouille Point.

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After South African-born Greg Smith sent a scornful resignation op-ed to the New York Times last week, Goldman Sachs will now undertake a company-wide email review. They’ll be searching for terms like “muppet”, and other things that may help to reveal disgruntled employees.

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Green, a female orangutan, is the subject of a powerful new documentary. She was rescued after deforestation in Indonesia left her without a home – and paralysed down her left side. Green’s last couple of hours on earth was filmed and included in a documentary by Patrick Rouxel for Al Jazeera. His aim is to highlight the extent to which deforestation is “raping our planet.”

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Last year, Google announced that it was sending its Street View team to the Amazon basin – and images from that trip are are now being made available on Google Maps. You probably won’t end up using it for directions, but there are some awesome panoramic images on display.

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An American teenager has managed to persuade an LA-based porn actress to go with him to his senior prom, but he needs to overcome a few obstacles first: one, his parents; two, his principal; and three, finding enough cash to fly the minx in for his big night!

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While South Africans took the day off yesterday to reflect on Human Rights Day, the small community of Hangberg near Hout Bay was rocked by violent protests as residents took to the streets to lash out against a police taskforce that raided local homes looking for abalone poachers.

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Two days ago, we broke the first photographs from a vigilante group murder in Khayelitsha’s Harare district. Three men were stabbed, stoned, and set alight beneath a pile of burning tyres on the suspicion of stealing a generator, or a flat screen television, according to conflicting reports. The shocking video shows a large group of […]

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Ease back into the remainder of the week with this gorgeous time lapse video shot from the ISS in low orbit over earth. Bask in the beauty of our planet from a point of view that preciously few of us will ever get to experience in real life.

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For some of us, shopping malls are the absolute worst. With queues and people breathing all over you, touching you, children, sticky ice-creams, screaming, and of course, the trauma of finding parking. In this episode Seth shows you how to avoid this nightmarish experience. *This insert was first published in December 2011 on ETV.   […]

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Do you want to live where the King of Pop breathed his last breaths? Michael Jackson’s seven bedroom, 13 bathroom house in Bel Air, which has stood empty since the singers death in 2009, is now back on the market at the bargain price of only $23.9 million, or just shy of R190 million. Full gallery of the house inside.

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For the first time ever, South African scientists have generated non-embryonic stem cells, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced. Harvested from adult skin cells, theoretically, these stem cells can grow into any type of adult cell.

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