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Last week we posted this news item about nobody getting killed by sharks anymore nowadays:

Nobody get killed by sharks anymore ?

But today it was made public that an Austrian man was killed by shark. The attack took place off the coast of Florida in the United States.

This was reported by the Austrian Press Agency.

The 49 year old diver died some time later in the hospital, because of the wounds he had received during the shark attack.

The attack took place on Sunday. The man was taking part in a tourist diving expedition. Part of the expedition was seeing bull sharks in their natural habitat.

                                                     a bull shark

Hitler was a busy man. But it was never known that the psycho was in fact also a cartoonist.

The tyrant and mass murderer Adolf Hitler has painted Pinocchio and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. At least according to William Hakvaag, conservator of a small Norwegian war museum. The museum is now showing the so called ‘Hitler Paintings’.

According to Hakvaag, four pieces of paper were found behind a water painting of an Alps landscape. They were signed ‘A. Hitler 40′. Hakvaag bought the water painting last year via the Internet from a German man. He paid 200 euros for them.

Hakvaag is assuming Hitler made the three paintings of Snow White and the Pinocchio to impress his girlfriend Eva Braun. They seem to be exact copies of the paintings by American animator Walt Disney.

Starting in March, police dogs in the German city of Dusseldorf will be issued special patrol boots. The boots are intended to protect their paws during patrols. It is not unusual that their paws  get hurt by stepping into broken glass.

“Little accidents like this happen a lot, especially during large events,” a Dusseldorf police spokesman told the German press.

The police found appropriate dog shoes in the United States. The boots will be of light blue color and will be tested during the coming weeks.

A pet mouse grounded a plane in China after it escaped from a passenger’s pocket.

The mouse was taken on board by a female passenger, Liu Yulian, who hid it in her coat pocket and smuggled it past airport security.

“I went to sleep, and after I woke up, I found the mouse had gone missing. So I contacted the crew to see if they could help,” says Liu.

The crew kept the information secret to avoid alarming other passengers but landed at Xiaoshan International Airport, reports the Today Morning Press.

“Upon landing, we quarantined the airplane, and searched it intensively five times, with no result,” says the airport spokesman.

After two and a half hours, the airport lifted the quarantine and allowed the plane to fly on to its final destination, Shenzhen.

A spokesman for airline, China Southern, says it acted in passengers’ interest: “We couldn’t continue to fly without getting rid of the potential danger.”

Passengers were unhappy and some are threatening to sue the airline for causing the delay by failing to stop the mouse from being brought on to the plane.

“We had to wait there a long time without getting out because of a security mistake,” one passenger said.

The plane took off from Dalian Airport where officials have promised to tighten procedures.

from Ananova

A company named Hyder Consulting is announcing it will build a skyscraper that will be twice as high as the record holding Burj Dubai Tower. The Burj Dubai is currently under construction in Dubai. Construction will be complete in 2008. When finished it will be a whopping 818 meters high.

The new skyscraper will be erected somewhere in the Middle East. Another company, the Kingdom Holding Company also announced it’s plans to  build a mega skyscraper. That tower will be named ” Mile High Tower “.

These two new mega-structures will compete for the record of highest building. The Mile High Tower will be at least 1600 meters high.

The Burj Dubai will be the highest building until those new towers have been built. Although construction on the Burj Dubai is not finished yet, it is already the highest building. At the moment is measures 158 stories high ( 598,5 meters). That is 90 meters higher then the Taipei tower in Taiwan and 40 meters higher then the CN Tower in Toronto.

                                                The Burj Dubai Tower