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Game of Thrones exploded in popularity when it was first brought to our screens, and now a dedicated couple of fans have created their very own homage - by dressing their dogs up as the show's main characters. 'The Pugs of Westeros' sees canine trio Roxy, Blue and Bono playing doggy versions of the show's main characters, including Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen and conniving King Joffrey. The pugs' owners, Phillip Lauer, 57, and his wife Sue, 47, from California, have been dressing their pugs up as characters from cinema and TV since they were puppies. And while the pair normally only shoot stills, they jumped at the chance of creating a mini-movie based on one of their favourite shows after being contacted by streaming service Blinkbox. Mr Lauer said: 'Sue is a professional photographer and designer and she loves to take pictures of our pugs in various scenarios. When blinkbox set us the challenge of a Game of Thrones tribute, we couldn't resis

Incredible new video shows you a simple trick to remove a ring The procedure involves nothing more than pliers and a piece of string The video has already received 8,098 likes on Facebook We've all been there, you try on a ring and go to remove it only to find that it won't budge. Or Maybe your fingers swell, whatever the reason - a stuck ring can cause panic. You're tugging and tugging and your finger is getting bluer and bluer and before you know it you're reaching for the margerine. Well put that butter down! There is a new solution to avoid this rather sticky (not to mention slimy) situation and all you need is a piece of string A video that hit Facebook this week solves the age old problem of removing a ring that has become stuck on a finger with a clean and simple method. In the video a man helps someone remove their ring using only pliers and a piece of string with a clever trick that involves creating a spiral of string for the ring to

This little piggy will not be going to market after escaping from a moving truck on the way to a slaughterhouse. The sow, who has since been nicknamed Babe, after the Hollywood film, was captured jumping 16ft to freedom in south China. A witness said the pig climbed over the backs of her fellow porkers before leaping out of the slaughterhouse van.   Miraculously she escaped unhurt and has now been adopted by police who responded to the incident in the Guangxi region. ‘She was safe and sound after her leap,’ said a police spokesman, ‘but found herself lost in the big city. ‘If we hadn’t have got to her he would have undoubtedly found himself at the end of a blade wielded by a local who would have enjoyed pork for days to come.’ He added: ‘She saw one chance of freedom by clambering on the backs of the other pigs and took it. ‘She deserves her chance of life and she has got it. She will never be eaten here.’ Babe is being kept at the police station an

Boy seen holding a cigarette and taking several puffs in a Chinese street Adult passers-by laugh but not one tries to take the cigarette away  Around 30 per cent of population in China, or 300 million people smoke  New footage has emerged of a Chinese toddler smoking a cigarette in the street as he is laughed at by onlookers. The pictures are believed to be of a child aged between two and three and despite the vast numbers of adults around, not one attempts to take the cigarette away from him. Passers-by and people on bikes passing can be heard laughing as the little boy holds the cigarette, taking several puffs of it like an 'old pro'. The footage was obtained by liveleak.com and has sparked fresh debate about the scale of China's tobacco habit. It is thought that around 30 per cent of the population of China smokes, which equates to 300 million people, with as many as 53 per cent of adult men in the country smoking. However, at the end of

Wildlife photographer Grant Atkinson spent 30 minutes trailing the lioness in the Okavango Delta in Botswana Atkinson lined up his camera as the lioness, crawling prone, approached the unsuspecting impala Suddenly, as the lioness lunges at its prey, Atkinson begins shooting the dramatic confrontation Moments later the impala escapes, but Atkinson is forced to look at his camera to see how the lioness almost won As the lioness approached the impala on the Okavango Delta in Botswana, photographer Grant Atkinson thought there was only one winner in this battle of nature.  With the predator preparing to strike, Mr Atkinson had his finger on the shutter of his camera, poised for the moment when the impala was clamped firmly between the lion's jaws. In a matter of a second, the encounter was over and the impala escaped.  But it wasn't until Mr Atkinson reviewed that dramatic footage that he could see how close the lion had been to success.

Next time you're splashing around in the sea on holiday, you might want to close your mouth. This stomach-churning photograph shows the types of microscopic creatures that are crawling around in just a drop of seawater, which has been magnified 25 times to reveal what's living in it. From bacteria and worms, to fish eggs, crab larvae and diatoms, the image shows the plankton holidaymakers could be swallowing each time a splash of water ends up on their tongue. Award-winning National Geographic photographer David Liitschwager captured the photo, revealing the less-than-obvious threats in the ocean. The photo proves the taste of seawater isn't just salt - it's the multitude of critters. On its website, National Geographic said of the photo: 'Under a magnifier, a splash of seawater teems with life. 'The planktonic soup includes bug-like copepods; long, glassy arrowworms; coiled filaments of cyanobacteria; rectangular algae called diatoms; fish eggs; and a

Tiger the cat is brought back to life in incredible scenes due to air next week as part of Channel 4′s new series The Supervet. The ginger tabby is recovering from a major operation when he goes into cardiac arrest. Fortunately ‘supervet’ Noel Fitzpatrick is on hand and, after other attempts to resuscitate him fail, his only option is to cut a hole in his chest and re-start Tiger’s heart with his finger. And Tiger is just the first of the show’s success stories. Other pets from across the country to receive cutting-edge care from the ‘bionic vet’ include a cat with two artificial feet and Bacus the French Bulldog, who struggles to walk after recovering from a leg fracture.

New York Subway Train Passengers Trapped Underground after Derailment (Reuters) - A New York City subway train carrying 1,000 riders derailed on Friday morning while traveling through a tunnel in the borough of Queens, injuring 19 people, city fire officials said. Fifteen people escaped with minor injuries while four more were transported to a hospital with potentially serious injuries, officials said. The incident, at 10:24 AM local time, involved a Manhattan-bound eight-car "F" line subway, they said. The cause of the derailment was not immediately known. Video of the scene broadcast on the NY1 channel showed fire officials evacuating throngs of people, in darkness and some through subway grates. (Reporting By  Edith Honan ; editing by Gunna Dickson)

This motorcyclist is lucky to be alive after crashing into a car while speeding along a motorway- with the horror smash captured on video. Sergey Kotov was riding down the Interstate 25 in Colorado when he slammed into the back of another vehicle and was sent flying from his bike. He caught the accident, which left him fighting for his life in a coma last year, on his GoPro camera. The biker said he was travelling at 140mph before the crash. 140mph before the crash.  

The explosion, filmed on dash-cam, happened on the Moscow Ring Road The two men inside survived the explosion but have since lost hearing It is believed the gas-powered car overheated while it was sitting in traffic Police confirmed they were examining the vehicle which had to be towed Read more: Daily Mail

A zoo in Mexico has welcomed into the world a ‘zonkey’: a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey. Named Khumba, the hybrid animal seen in the video was born on April 21 at Reynosa zoo, in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas. Khumba’s mother is a zebra called Rayas, whilst the father is a dwarf, blue-eyed albino donkey named Ignacio that lives on a nearby farm. According to the zoo, Khumba is a rare case in the animal world because the zebra and donkey chromosomes are not compatible.

This woman’s husband was pretty proud of himself after giving her a two hour orgasm – although she was slightly less impressed. A video of the new bride in hospital, in which she was seen twitching uncontrollably, was shared on YouTube. She was finding it tough to speak as each sentence was being interrupted by a climax. She had reportedly been having orgasms for more than a couple of hours after having sex with her husband, who was recording the clip. ‘For the first 10 minutes I was like, this is awesome but now it’s exhausting,’ she is heard telling the doctor. ‘This is so embarrassing. I will never forget this.’ Her husband seemed pleased with himself though and added: ‘She asked me to do this!’ Doctors gave the woman valium to ease her orgasms.

With the best of intentions, Tom Holowach set out to create a massive spectacle. As Gizmodo reports,  Holowach was the mastermind behind Cleveland, Ohio's Balloon Fest on September 27, 1986. Holowach explained his role in a Q&A this week: I was the Project Manager for this event. I worked on it for 6 months and lived in Cleveland for a month preparing for it. We had to design a structure this filled a city square and could stand up to 90 MPH winds, which was building code. The one-piece net was fabricated by the exact company I found in So Cal who built the cargo nets for the Space Shuttle. Kids in schools "sold" balloon sponsorships at 2 for a dollar that went to United Way. The goal was 2 million but we stopped at 1.4 + million. Though the event was a spectacle, as can be seen from the photos below, Balloon Fest ended in tragedy. As Viral Forest explains,  a storm moved  in and forced all of the balloons back over the city. Two fisherman whose boat

Time for us is now measured in everything that happened before we saw Rocco the Springer Spaniel singing his squirrel song and everything after. Watch his priceless reaction above.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s just two crazy men jumping off the world’s tallest building. Armed just with parachutes, Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet are videoed breaking the world record for the highest base jump in a death-defying plunge from the 2,717-foot-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Others have jumped from the skyscraper, roughly twice the height of the Empire State Building, before but Fugen and Reffet got an extra 500ft by jumping off a temporary platform placed on top of the building’s pinnacle. The pair told Gulf News: ‘We feel happy for breaking the world record, but it wasn’t the main goal. ‘We’ve been dreaming about base jumping from this special place, this unique place, for three years now.’

The power of nature never ceases to amaze. Next time you grumble about the drizzle in this country, spare a thought for those living in much colder climes. This fast-flowing river of ice in New Brunswick, Canada, was so powerful it moved a bridge up to six feet.   Ice boulders fill the water as is flows under a bridge. However, there is so much of it that it soon blocks all available space and forces the structure to move. The person who shot the footage and uploaded it to YouTube claims the bridge shifted between three and six feet.

Pram is seen moving after being pushed towards the edge of the platform It topples on to the tracks without either parent doing anything to stop it Boy has now been removed from his mother's care Read More: Daily Mail

The car giant has unveiled its futuristic FV2 automated bike design Revealed at the New York Auto Show, it looks like something out of Tron The 'Fun Vehicle 2' can take you to destinations at the touch of a button A panel rises up when you sit in the bike with an interactive screen You can also steer by shifting from side to side in 'driver mode' Toyota says the unique vehicle will be 'driving fun in the future' No release date for the bike has yet been announced You might think the future of driving will be limited to ‘boring’ driverless cars that take us from place to place. But Toyota has other ideas in mind with their FV2 bike that looks like something out of the film Tron. They claim the bike, while autonomous, will be ‘driving fun in the future’ by reading your emotions and providing information on its augmented reality display. Although teased before, the bike has now been unveiled at the New York Auto Show, which runs from 18 to 2

  When Ichimi the kitten was rejected by her mother, Ponzu the golden retriever and his owner Jessiepon took her in and have begun nursing her back to full health. Ichimi has taken very well to her guardian Ponzu – the two play together all the time, and Ponzu even cleans and sleeps together with Ichimi. Judging by the pictures on Jessiepon’s Instagram account, Ichimi is growing stronger by the day. Ichimi has provided Ponzu a much-needed respite from his heartbreak after Wasabi, a kitten that Ponzu and Jessiepon rescued from a crow attack, died in August. Now, Ponzu has a new kitten to care for. Believe it or not, but inter-species animal friendships, especially with paternal relationships like in this case, aren’t very rare at all. A post we published recently about beautiful animal friendships shows us that animals of all colors shapes and sizes can get along just fine – a lesson that we’d do well to learn also! Source: instagram/

  Artefacts: Ms Ward, 59, from Telford, Shropshire, discovered the timepiece in her late father's dusty attic, along with the metal bullet and Cpl Davis's diary documenting his time at war. Above, the soldier's possessions Timepiece saved life of Corporal Walter Davis during Battle of the Somme It stopped a German bullet from piercing his chest on the Western Front It was only recently unearthed by the soldier's granddaughter Linda Ward Ms Ward, 59, also discovered metal bullet and Cpl Davis's diary extracts                Miracle: This silver pocket watch saved the life of a World War One soldier fighting for Britain on the Somme Relatives: The story of Cpl Davis's close encounter was passed down his family for generations, but the watch was only recently unearthed by his granddaughter Linda Ward. Above, Ms Ward with her daughter Louise, 23 Memories: Cpl Davis's fascinating short diary (right) - which has

A police officer who was caught on camera punching a suspected woman shoplifter three times in the head has been spared a prison sentence after a judge said his victim was 'no shrinking violet'. Police constable James Kiddie, 45, attacked Sarah Reed in a busy branch of clothing store Uniqlo on London's Regent Street. CCTV footage played to Westminster Magistrates’ Court showed the officer grab the 30-year-old woman by the hair, while another camera captured him punching her three times as she lay in a corridor trying to shield herself. Kiddie was convicted of assault last month and was today sentenced to a 12 month community order, requiring him to undertake 150 hours of unpaid work. The father-of two had been called to the Uniqlo branch, after Ms Reed was held by security guards in November 2012, the court heard. CCTV footage showed him removing his overcoat and jacket before searching the woman's handbag. He was then seen forcing her back into

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT  Jose Changoluisa and son Fernando died in the attack in Ecuador Around 20 passengers fled to safety as pair ambushed their victims The victims were believed to have been carrying £12,000 from sale of a van Cameras on the bus captured the scenes as passengers scream in horror This is the horrific moment two armed robbers shoot a father and son dead during a struggle on a packed bus in Ecuador. Around 20 passengers including a mother with a child carrying a balloon in his hands fled to safety as the pair ambushed their victims after they left a bank with nearly £12,000 from the sale of a van. Jose Changoluisa, 63, and his son Fernando, 33, died of gunshot wounds after being pistol-whipped by their attackers as they tried to resist. Cameras on the bus captured the violent scenes, including the moment Jose was shot twice in the back as other passengers screamed in horror and the bullets tore his T-shirt open. He collapsed and died

At a hospital in Boston, sound registered in Alex Frederick's brain for the first time. Alex, just 17 months old at the time, is deaf, but a device, not yet approved in the United States for children, is helping to change that. It was implanted directly into his brain. Alex was born two months prematurely, weighing just four pounds and four ounces at birth. He spent the first month of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit of St. John Hospital in Detroit. His early arrival brought him into the world facing a host of challenges. Scans would show that Alex had a heart condition, while his vision appeared to be compromised. And then there was the matter of his hearing. Alex failed the hearing test given to all newborns. Then he failed a second hearing test two months later. ABC Entertainment News | ABC Business News "That was a blow," said Alex's father Phil Frederick. "The most difficult part for me was that first time … he failed his first hea