Fan Turns His Home into Altar for Bollywood Star

Shah Rukh Khan is one of the most popular actors in the world, but no one’s a bigger fan of the Bollywood actor than Vishal Singh, a man who has turned his home into an altar to the movie star.

The 38-year-old businessman who runs a homeopathic medicine business in Lucknow, India says there’s nothing he wouldn’t do to make Shah Rukh Kahn happy. So far he’s covered every surface in his house and even his car with photos of the Bollywood icon, changed his name to Vishahrukh Khan, and even spent his honeymoon in front of the actor’s mansion in Mumbai, hoping to catch a glimpse of his idol. Although he says no one cam be like Shah Rukh, he wanted to bear his name and even gave his children names related to the Indian actor. His son is named like Kahn’s child, Aryan, and his daughter Simran, is named after one of the female leads in one of the actor’s biggest movies, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

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Vishal admits his family didn’t exactly approve of his obsession with Shah Rukh Khan, but says his parents have come to accept it and know his love for the Bollywood superstar will never die. His wife Ruchi even agreed to spend their honeymoon in Mumbai, so her husband could hang around Kahn’s mansion hoping to see him. The die-hard fan has actually met the actor a number of times, and says Shah Rukh Kahn promised to visit Singh’s house. To convince him to keep true to his promise, the businessman says he isn’t going to open his new homeopathic medicine store until Kahn comes to cut the ribbon.

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World's Fastest Condom!

New condom takes only 3 seconds to put on

Washington, Oct 21 : A South African designer has come up with an ingenious invention: a condom that can be applied in less than four seconds. Dubbed Pronto, the condom aims to be quicker and easier to apply than conventional brands with the hopes of encouraging more people to use them.

Reported in blog Springwise on Tuesday, inventor Willem van Renburg saw the need for a better condom living in a country with the highest population of people infected with HIV in the world.

"The condom is contained within a foil pack -- which also acts as the applicator -- and is packaged in a protective sleeve," writes Springwise. The product website features a video with instructions on how to apply the condom: crack the pack in half and slip the plastic applicator apart, then roll the condom down and snap the applicator off the condom -- all in one swift movement.

After years of development and testing, the Pronto condom is ready for global distribution. The product launched in South Africa in February and plans to grant distribution licenses around the globe, with the first license just given to a company in Switzerland, according to the company. But the Pronto comes at a cost: a three-pack sells for R33.95, about 1 per condom.

In other condom innovations, British biotech company Futura Medical has created a new condom, currently known as CSD500, that is coated on the inside with a vasodilator gel that increases blood flow and results in a stronger, longer-lasting erection.

The product is nearing final regulatory approval, and condom company Durex announced its aim to unroll the condoms in Europe by the end of the year.

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'Killer' Curry Competition Hospitalises Two

Diners suffered vomiting and cramps whilst participating in a 'world's hottest chilli' eating competition in Edinburgh

By David Batty

'Dorset Naga' chillies, are used in the 'killer' curry that hospitalised two in Edinburgh. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Two contestants in a 'world's hottest chilli' eating competition at an Edinburgh Indian restaurant had to be taken to hospital after suffering violent reactions to the spicy dish.

The Scottish Ambulance Service criticised the Kismot curry house, St Leonards Street, after 10 diners suffered vomiting and some passed out after eating the 'killer' curry during the charity event.

Two people were taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after British Red Cross workers on hand at the contest on Saturday were overwhelmed by the adverse reactions to the "Kismot Killer".

Abdul Ali, one of brothers who runs the family restaurant, said he would have to tone down the dish for future contests to avoid another call out for the emergency services.

The restaurant's website states that contestants must sign a legal disclaimer before taking part in the competition, which raised £1,500 for the Children's Hospice Association of Scotland (Chas). It also advises diners to put a toilet roll in the freezer when they get home.

Ali said the contestants suffered severe stomach pains after eating the Kismot Killer in the final round.

He said: "Unfortunately they were in pain and didn't want to move. They vomited a couple of times. About three or four vomited in the toilets and some went outisde for fresh air.

"We're definitely going to cool it down next year."

The dish contains the potent Dorset naga and the Jolokia, or ghost naga, both reputed to be among the hottest varieties chillis in the world, Ali added.

Competition winner Beverly Jones, 53, from Newington, Edinburgh, said she suffered agonising stomach cramps after completing the three-round challenge.

"You had to eat the whole bowl and I finished the lot. I wouldn't recommend it. Five minutes later I was in the toilet. It was not a nice experience. I was sick. Every participant was sick. I'm not going to defend my title next year."

A British Red Cross spokeswoman confirmed that two first aiders at the competition made a judgement that an ambulance was required for the two most severely ill contestants. They included Curie Kim, a 21-year-old South Korean student who came second in the competition.

A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said: "Two patients were taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after becoming very unwell at Kismot restaurant.

"We would urge the organisers to review the way in which this event is managed in future in order to avoid another situation where emergency ambulances are required to treat their customers."

The disclaimer on the restaurant's website states: "Kismot Restaurant will take no responsibilities for the bodily functions after you eat the curry.

"If you die whilst eating the or as a direct result of eating the curry, members if the table with [sic] share the cost of your Kismot Killer.

"If you become ill due to the Kismot Killer of if you find that you are experiencing any problems with your lover(s) then under no circumstances are you entitled to blame Kismot Restaurant or any members of its staff.

"The Kismot Killer is free if you completely finish eating it by yourself.

"For your own well being we highly recommend that you immediately put your toilet roll in the freezer when you get home."

The dish has previously caused diners to suffer nose bleeds and one elderly man had to go to hospital.

Ali said only three diners have previously managed to finish the killer curry out of at least 100 who have tried the dish.

Breast Slapping! Thailand's Crazy New Health Craze

Bust a move: Breast-slapping new health craze in Thailand

In Thailand and Japan they're slapping women's breasts. But don't worry, it's all in the name of massage.

The slapping technique is said to increase bust size. Picture: Justin Lloyd

WANT bigger breasts but shy away from the idea of surgery? Thailand claims to have the answer.

Already famous for its medical tourism services - including cheap breast implants - Thailand is promoting a “body slapping” technique that it claims can boost breast size, according to a video by the Bangkok Post.

It has even licensed one beauty shop in Bangkok to perform the non-surgical treatment, which involves kneading, massaging and hitting of the breasts, as well as buttock-slapping to firm the rear.

The traditional therapy has been practised by shop owner Khemmikka Na Songkhla – better known as Khunying Tobnom - for more than two decades. She claims the slapping shifts fat from one area to another, while kneading works excess fat towards the breasts.

She has approval from the Thai Government to carry out the technique after a study by the Thai Health Ministry reportedly found vigorous massage left volunteers’ breasts noticeably bigger. The Ministry went so far as to sponsor a program that urged women to learn how to slap their own breasts.

Clients can expect to gain about 5cm after the painful treatment, Tobnom said. However some are turned away as their breasts are too small.
The clinic charges $380 for six 10-minute slapping sessions.

Breast-slapping is far from the quirkiest beauty treatment you can find around the world. In Northern Israel snakes are used to massage clients – and of course there’s always the fish pedicure, where fish nibble away the dead skin on your feet.

Slap happy

Best Goal Celebration Ever

A professional soccer team from Iceland show off one of the best goal celebrations ever caught on camera.

Hotel Romp is Match Of The Day

Into touch ... couple

Footie fans cheer as couple score

A ROMPING couple were seen by thousands of footie fans as they scored in their hotel room overlooking the stadium.

The crowd at the top-flight clash cheered as they watched the off-pitch performance through the window.

The woman was later identified as glamour model Alicia Tenderness, 26. She said: "We thought it was tinted glass and that we could see outside, but not vice-versa.

"When we checked out the next morning the lady on the front desk was very cold, but we did not understand why.

"We only realised on Monday when we read it in the newspaper."

Footie officials blasted the couple. Philippe Bormans of Belgian team Sint-Truiden – who were playing at home to rivals Lokeren – said: "There are children in the crowd. We do not want this repeated."

Hotel boss Luc Withofs vowed to get stewards to monitor the windows.

But Alicia hit back: "He should put tinted glass in the rooms."

Alicia Tenderness

Odd Chinese Sleeping Positions

There are many types of sleeping positions from the conventional to the bizarre, but as long as they get to sleep, people don't seem to care

A traveller sleeps while waiting for his train at the Beijing Railway Station on the eve of Labour Day holiday. This is the time when millions of Chinese travel to major cities to enjoy cultural attractions or return home to visit relatives and friends.

A migrant worker rests his head on his construction hat and a soft-drink bottle as he sleeps in front of a construction site in central Beijing.

A passenger sleeps on an overnight train from Yangzhou to Hankou in Wuhu, eastern China's Anhui province.

A man takes a nap in the sun on his motorized tricycle in Beijing.

A man selling furniture sleeps atop items for sale at an outdoor market in central Beijing.

A vendor naps at a pork wholesale market in Changzhi, Shanxi province.

A worker takes a nap surrounded by ducklings at a duck farm on the outskirts of Jiaxing, Zhejiang province.

A migrant worker sleeps on the back of his motor tricycle, under a mosquito net with his wife and son, on the pavement of a street in Hefei, Anhui province

Mothers take a nap near a school as their children take the National College Entrance Exams in Beijing June 7, 2011. About 9.33 million students make a start on China's national college entrance exams or "gaokao" from June 7 to 8, a fiercely competitive test that is seen as make-or-break for getting ahead.

Chinese school children sleep at their desks during a noon break at a private elementary school for the children of migrant workers in Shanghai

Parents of freshmen sleep on mats laid out on the floor of a gymnasium inside a university campus in Wuhan, Hubei province.

People wait outside the Beijing West Railway Station early morning

Migrant workers who have collected materials for recycling nap in their carts along a street in Taiyuan, Shanxi province

Children of migrant workers sleep on a desk in a classroom at a primary school in Hefei, Anhui province June 1, 2011. The education of the children of migrant workers, who number 240 million in China, is one of the top concerns of the Chinese State Council, Premier Wen Jiabao said during an online chat with Internet users in February.

Rescue miners rest at the site of the flooding accident of Wangjialing Coal Mine, located across both Xiangning county and Hejin city, in northern China's Shanxi province

A man sleeps next to chickens he will sell at a poultry market in Shanghai.

Source: Agencies
Photos: Reuters

Sports Fanatics : When Fans Go Really Crazy

Why do fans go that extra mile when all they need to do is to enjoy the sport in a quiet manner? Check out our list of fan’atics’

Husbandry!

A man waves on the grounds of the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida

Freezing weather no barrier

Fans of the Green Bay Packers hold a sign and wear bikinis in below freezing weather during NFC Championship game between the Packers and the Seattle Seahawks at Lambeau Field. The Packers had then defeated the Seahawks 48-10.

Meet your new trainer!

A girl runs on the pitch as Italy's national soccer team players train at Coverciano

He looks 'tyred'!

Dressed in his NASCAR attire, Chris MacNicol gives a thumbs-up to other fans before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, N.Y.

Neck to neck

A security guard holds the neck of a fan who was chasing Real Madrid's Karim Benzema after a friendly soccer match against Tianjin Teda in Tianjin

Even Behind The Bar

Philippines fans watch from behind bars the 2014 World Cup qualification soccer match between Kuwait and Philippines in Kuwait City

Smoking is injurious to health

A Red Star soccer fan with a torch runs across the field during a soccer match between Red Star and Partizan in Belgrade

Back from the brink

A die-hard MLB fan, Keith Carmickle is caught by his brother and a friend after he almost fell headfirst to a pool deck about 20 feet below while trying to catch home run ball hit by Milwaukee's Prince Fielder during Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby at the All-Star Game in Phoenix, Arizona. Easily a case of back from the brink for this fan'atic'

Hmm! Caught the big fish

A Woman is taken off field by security guards near end of international rugby union match between All Blacks and Ireland

No Baywatch this!

A hot fan'atic' runs on the field, interrupting the match between United States and Honduras, during the first round of their CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying soccer match in Tampa. This was way back in 2008

From Milan to Brazil with love

A fan'atic', who ran onto the field, tried to kiss A.C. Milan's Ronaldinho while being held back by a security guard when A.C. Milan took on the Chicago Fire during their international friendly soccer match in Bridgeview, Illinois back in May 2010

Not an on-field tackle

A stadium security guard captures a Colombia fan as he ran towards the team at the end of the match against Argentina at the Copa America soccer tournament in Santa Fe last week.

Heights of celebration

A man is thrown into the air as fans await the victory parade for the Mexico's U-17 World Cup winning soccer team in Mexico City July 11, 2011. Mexico won the U-17 World Cup after beating Uruguay in the final on Sunday

Dirty side of fan following

A Red Star soccer fan with a torch runs across the field during a soccer match between Red Star and Partizan in Belgrade October 14, 2000. Yugoslav soccer fans rioted in Belgrade's biggest sports stadium on Saturday, forcing abandonment of a match between Red Star and Partizan, the capital's two arch-rivals. Witnesses said Partizan fans sparked trouble by tossing fireworks and stadium seats at rival fans and on to the pitch, and as the players were escorted to safety hundreds of Red Star supporters broke out of their end of the ground and raced across the pitch to confront the Partizan fans

Familiar sight

The easiest way to know if cricket fans are happy is to simply take a look at the ground. If it looks in good shape, then the local fans must be really happy. If not, you know there is serious trouble. Like this one, which was sparked off after a few ugly fans hurled bottles onto the field at Arnos Vale in St.Vincent during the first ODI between West Indies and Australia in 2008

Too dangerous yet who cares

We have heard of number of instances of under-construction buildings caving in when exaggerated weight is put on them. Yet, fans don't seem to learn. When it comes to cricket, everything else including safety takes backseat. In this picture, fans are caught crowding an under-construction building near the Nehru Stadium in Guwahati during the ODI match between India and Australia in 2009

Hard task for security staff

Security staff removes a fan that ran on to the field during the MLB baseball game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox in Toronto way back in April 2008

What a tackle

A fan is tackled by security after running onto the field and appearing to try to shake hands with Seattle Mariners Ichiro Suzuki during the eighth inning of their MLB American League baseball game against the New York Yankees in Seattle, Washington, May 28, 2011

Hard to pacify

We have seen this happen in the subcontinent a number of times. Crowd getting angry about proceedings and organisers trying hard to pacify them. With this menace spreading like a virus from one venue to another, cricket boards decided to ban water bottles in every cricketing venue. Thanks to the ban, incidents like these are now a thing of the past

Does it feel like member's stand?

When an international match returns to a venue after two years, emotions can run high and craze for the match can be unparalleled. Like it was when New Zealand and India faced off at the Nehru Stadium in Guwahati in the 2010 bilateral series, which India won 5-0

Football fans are no different

Countries like Italy, Croatia, Russia and the whole of South America are known for soccer riots, which keeps the riot police on their feet always. This was easily one of the worst incidents of crowd trouble in football when Croatian football fans clashed with police after Croatia was held to a 1-1 draw against Malta in a World Cup 2006 Group Eight qualifier at Ta' Qali National Stadium, outside Valletta, September 7, 2005. Croatia's hopes of winning European Group Eight and qualifying directly for the World Cup finals were jeopardised on Wednesday when they were held to an unexpected 1-1 draw by plucky Malta. The match was overshadowed by crowd trouble as a group of Croatia fans vented their frustration at their team's disappointing outing by ripping up seats and hurling them towards home fans and police officers.

This isn't my place

Boston Red Sox's right fielder Trot Nixon is caught by fans after trying to field a home run hit by New York Yankees Jason Giambi in the second inning at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts back in 2005

Image source: Reuters, AP, AFP
Text source: India Syndicate