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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

The phrase: “Those bloody taxes !” is getting a very funny meaning in Poland nowadays.

From now on it is possible to pay your tax bills by donating blood in Poland. Everyone who donates a liter of blood can now deduct 45 euros from their tax bills. Hospitals are giving out certificates to blood donors for every liter of donated blood.

Then one simply puts this certificate with his tax application, and 45 euros is deducted from their tax debt.

“One of my friends is an accountant and he told me about this new procedure,” says Dariusz Gryka from the town of Bialystok. ” I have donated my blood three times now. I can say it is definitely worth it !”

The rabbit of Latvian president Valdis Zatlers is dead. Lisis, as the bunny was called, was a  famous celebrity in Latvia. Lisis came to fame after president Zatler had told the press that he viewed his rabbit a full member of the presidential family.

It is speculated that Lisis was suffering from depressions after the family moved to the presidential palace last year. He longed back to his old home.

Although the Zatlers allowed Lisis to roam free around the palace, the little animal saw his new home as a golden cage.

The First Rabbit was never really able to cope with his celebrity status.

                                     It is lonely at the top, Lisis

A desperate yell from her husband made 28-year-old Yvonne Sullivan wake up from a coma. It was just in time, because doctors were about to shut down her life support.

Mrs. Sullivan fell into a coma during child delivery. Unfortunately the baby did not survive and this shock proved too hard for her to cope with.

She was comatose for two long weeks. All this time, the husband, Dominic, grew more desperate.  Then doctors told her husband they had given up hope and they were planning to switch off the life support.

This made Dominic, a trucker, launch one last attempt to wake her up. He started yelling: “You start fighting, don’t you dare give up on me now. I’ve had enough, stop mucking around and start breathing. Come back to me!”

After a couple of hours Yvonne miraculously opened her eyes.

In an interview Mrs. Sullivan told what had happened. ” I remember my husband begging me to wake up. This gave me the courage to fight again. “

In the Italian town of Marano, close to Napels, a very interesting lottery is being  organized. First prize is a burial spot on the local cemetery.

The town’s cemetery is completely full at the moment. That is why an emergency cemetery is being built in Marano. Though that new graveyard will only have enough spaces for 48 people.

The city administration is concerned that people might be starting to bribe city officials, as to obtain an exclusive resting place.

This made them decide to start the  rather odd lottery, of which the winner at least gets buried properly.

Though this is still a temporary solution. Work has begun on a much larger cemetery. The new graveyard will have space for over 1.000 burial spots. 

                                                      Winner takes all