Before the promulgation of worthwhile American sports such as baseball, football, basketball or hockey*, non-Americans were forced to content themselves with quasi-sports like croquet, Duck-Duck-Goose and soccer.  It’s no surprise then that these diversion-starved people began to invent their own increasingly bizarre ‘sports.’
However, the Yorkshire miners who in the 1970s invented ferret legging, also known as ferret-down-trousers, had no such excuse.  Although week after week, color television offered far safer and more athletically meritorious sports, the Yorkies designed a contest that very often results in bleeding genitals.

A French artist that calls himself MTO has done graffiti of famous movie roles all over Berlin. This German city is known for being the one with most street art in Europe. MTO has done anything from Ace Ventura the pet detective to Jack Torrance in The Shining.

The Colosseum in Rome is one of the most photographed monuments in the world. And while that makes it quite challenging to get an interesting and useful photograph of it, some people still manage to capture those magic images. We think these talented photographers have captured some great shots. Time to pack the bags for Italy!

Carnival Season for 2011 is nearing its end. All over the world, celebrations are held as a final party before the fasting of Lent, as a way to usher out the winter and welcome spring. Across Europe and the Americas, parades and festivals have been taking place for nearly a month, culminating in the largest, most famous party of all: the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The festivals in Rio continue until today, March 8th. Gathered below are images from the past several weeks of carnivals around the globe.

You are probably informed about the upcoming cancellation of the Space Shuttle program by the United States. The cancellation of this program is explained by the lack of funds which are needed to support this not so cheap way of exploring the universe.
After the Space Shuttle missions are canceled, there will be a number of astronomers and astronauts who are going to sit jobless and bore themselves since they cannot fly into space anymore.
But photographer Hunter Freeman has already found some good propositions about what could all those astronauts do if they loose their jobs.
He created some entertaining collection of photos of astronauts doing their new jobs like searching for lost jewerly on beaches, cleaning buildings, washing extreme dirty clothes or just watching a television and eating pop-corns.