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James Mason (James May) - Designer Lego fan since childhood. This Englishman was the author and implementer impressive and really original idea -- construction of this house only blocks from Lego. The creation of this house took the 272 types of parts Lego, while at the two-storey house in the end it took about 816 million pieces of bricks of the well-known brands.

Lubna al-Hussein had faced 40 lashes for wearing pants deemed too tight and a blouse considered too sheer. The threat of lashes was dropped when a court found her guilty but ordered instead that she pay a fine.

"She is now in jail," her attorney Nabil Adib told CNN. "She refused to pay the fine as a matter of principal."

Al-Hussein will appeal her verdict in an effort to have the conservative Muslim government's decency law declared unconstitutional, Adib said by phone from Khartoum.
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House Apartments dancing (Dancing apartment) in the near future will be built in South Korea. Authorship of the project in the spirit of modernism, which are alien to the foundations of classical architecture, belongs to Yang Yoonu Guyot (Yoon Gyoo Jang). According to him, the idea of designing the house, visited him while watching the movie «Transformers» Michael Bay. The image of the house came from an architect as a reflection of three-dimensional robotic machines, only in the real world.



But the house is interesting not only for its design, although it is certainly unusual and new. Yoon and Guillot Young cared about the comfort of future tenants: the project includes many open terraces, which, like a carpet, spreading grass and trees grow.
To make this oasis was possible in the large city, an architect turned the house into a sort of vertical «alpine hills», moving the «S-shaped» line the wall of the future of the skyscraper. Yoon Young Guyot your project immediately and tried to improve neighborly relations. The fact that the architectural feature of this building allows the tenants settle in accordance with their hobbies. The architect believes that this division «interest» would avoid unnecessary conflicts and help to establish good neighborly relations.
It is assumed that «Dancing House», primarily to attract creative people, therefore, were designed music studios, assembly halls for exhibitions of paintings, installations, sculptures and photographs, as well as a stage for theatrical performances and speeches by the talented residents of the building, because it is the people create ultimately, the one non-transferable atmosphere in which the house will prance!









source - Freshome

Sep 05 - At least 15 tourist have drown after a sightseeing boat sank in Lake Ohrid in south-western Macedonia.

The Ilinden sank about 200m from the shore - reportedly within four minutes. About 40 passengers have been rescued.

The Bulgarian government says the dead were all its nationals. The captain of the boat said there was a "loud crack" before the boat sank, police say.

Police have described the incident as "an enormous tragedy". Lake Ohrid is Macedonia's best known tourist resort.

Earlier reports said 19 people had died and indicated that the cause could have been overcrowding, with 73 passengers on board, when the boat only had a permit for a maximum of 45.


Cries of help

The tourists had been on their way to the St Naum monastery complex when the 30m (98 feet) vessel broke in two and sank at about 1100 (0900 GMT), according to witnesses.

"We were in a speed boat and we saw the boat sinking. We just turned around and we saw people crying for help," an eyewitness told BBC Macedonian.

"When we got there, 10 were already dead. We took seven with us, we thought we could save more but it was too late."

Another witness told the BBC: "Around 1030 I went to the beach, and all of a sudden, I heard cries of 'Help! Help me, help me!' and we saw how the forward part of the boat had sunk in the water.

"I have a small dinghy and with a friend we went towards the boat, then two more small boats came along.
"It was lucky that there were other small boats who came along, and threw life-saving vests and took the survivors on board.

Police divers are on the scene.

A BBC correspondent in the region says accidents like this on Lake Ohrid are extremely rare.

Macedonia's transport minister had offered his resignation.

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September 4, the Afghan capital of Kabul, are being held the traditional fighting game bird, bird is the Afghans fighting the traditional entertainment.

Mexico's local time September 1, Hurricane, "jimena," arrived at the coast of Mexico. When the hurricane landed reduced by 5 to 3, but still bring to the area is not a small loss.

The afternoon of September 2, Indonesia's West Java province of Richter magnitude 7.3 earthquake has killed at least 15 people were killed. In addition there are dozens of houses collapsed. According to reports, the earthquake epicenter is located in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, less than 200 kilometers south of Jakarta, strongly felt in a number of high-rise buildings continue to sway at least one minute, people have taken refuge out of the house fled to the streets.