Nike honors Ronaldo with Golden Soccer Shoes

During his visit to Nike headquarters last saturday, Ronaldo received a pair of golden Mercurial in honour of his winning football history and his help in developing the fastest boot on the planet.

The boots were packaged in a custom wooden box with his “R9″ logo on the top.

Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport L’Or Blanc

Bugatti in collaboration with Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur has released unique version of Bugatti Veyron – Bugatti Vevron Grand Sport L’Or Blanc.

The ‘L’Or Blanc’ was unveiled on Thursday in Berlin, German. It’s the world’s first vehicle with porcelain elements in exterior and interior design.

Porcelain is used in seven locations on the L’Or Blanc, including the wheel centers, fuel and oil filler caps, and the large “EB” badge on the back.

Five places inside the cabin are rendered in porcelain as well: the center-console surround; signed trim plates on each side of the center console; the removable, diamond-polished dish atop the center console; and a relief between the seatbacks depicting an elephant standing on its hind legs.

According to Bugatti, that elephant was the inspiration for the partnership between Bugatti and KPM.

This gorgeous, elaborately hand-painted blue-and-white Bugatti is still available for purchase for €1.65 million ($2.4 million USD).

Le Mans Special edition

Audi has announced a special edition of its R8 V8 vehicle, created in honor of the brand’s tenth victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race which took place June 11-12.

Drivers André Lotterer, Marcel Fassler and Benoît Treluyer took Audi to victory with an R8 at the gruelling endurance race, edging in ahead of a Peugeot 908.

It’s the second year that Audi has beaten Peugeot to first place in the race, although the French automaker managed to take third, fourth and fifth places.

The new model, reserved solely for British fans of the Audi brand, will have a limited-edition run of just 100 models and will be priced from £93,935 (€104,840).

Performance specification remain unchanged from the R8 V8, which offers 0-100 km/h in 4.6 seconds and a top speed of 300 km/h.

It will be easily distinguishable on the road thanks to GT-inspired 19-inch alloy wheels, featuring red brake callipers reminiscent again of the Le Mans-winning model.

It will be available in a Titanium Metallic paint finish while interiors have been finished by crimson red accents to the nappa leather seats, along with a leather-functioned steering wheel and red leather knee pads and passenger door handles.

The Limited Edition model includes several equipment upgrades, including a satellite navigation, integrated seatbelt microphones with Bluetooth interface for making mobile phone calls and a Bang & Alufsen sound system.

The Audi R8 V8 Limited Edition will be available in coupé form only. Order books will open in July, with the first models expected to hit the roads in October 2011.

Imej ikan pari gergasi dirakam jurugambar

SEORANG penyelam mendekati seekor ikan pari manta di Teluk Hanifaru, Kepulauan Maldives baru-baru ini.

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MALE - Imej sekumpulan ikan pari manta gergasi berenang di Teluk Hanifaru, Kepulauan Maldives dirakamkan seorang jurugambar Britain, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Jurugambar berkenaan, Warren Baverstock, 42, mengambil masa selama sembilan hari untuk merakamkan kumpulan ikan pari gergasi itu yang tiba untuk memakan plankton di perairan tersebut baru-baru ini.

Terdapat sekitar 200 pari manta dengan lebar lebih tiga meter berkumpul di teluk sebesar padang bola sepak itu untuk mencari makanan. - Agensi

Stamp sells for record £1m‎

The world’s most famous stamp, the elusive “Post Office Mauritius”, was sold yesterday for a record breaking £1,053,090 ($1,600,000) at Spink in London.

This is a record price for a stamp sold in the United Kingdom! Nearly half a dozen bidders in the room participated as the price of the lot shot skyward.

The stamp was one of the highlights of the Chartwell collection formed by businessman and philanthropist Sir Cyril Humphrey Cripps.

Over the next 18 months, Spink will sell The Chartwell Collection, which is the most valuable collection of stamps to come up for auction in modern times.

The collection consists of some of the finest material for Great Britain and the British Empire ever seen before and it is all material that is fresh to the marketplace.

Currently held in just over 80 stamp albums, The Chartwell Collection is estimated to fetch well in excess of £20,000,000 before the last lot is sold in December 2012.

Olivier Stocker, Chairman and CEO of Spink, comments: “The Chartwell Collection is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the biggest “wow” moments we have ever experienced here at Southampton Row.

When the collection arrived in London it was amazing to watch as our specialists turned the pages of what may be one of the finest philatelic collections of our time.

Over eighty albums were opened, examined and taken in and it was wonderful to see the faces of the Spink team as treasure after treasure was revealed.

The story behind this collection is absolutely amazing and so unusual in so many ways. It is a great pleasure to be a part of these momentous sales!”

Mickey bug eyes ... damselfly

Snake lover killed by reptile Snake man killed by his cobra

Breeder ... Luke Yeomans with one of his snakes

A SNAKE breeder has been killed by a bite from one of his king cobras - days after he boasted they would not harm him.

Luke Yeomans, 45, had a heart attack in Nottinghamshire after the bite from the deadly reptile injected venom into his bloodstream.

Dad Luke, who was planning to open his king cobra sanctuary of 24 snakes to the public this weekend, had insisted he was perfectly safe handling them.

He posed for a picture while kissing a cobra on the back of the head - despite their fearsome reputation as one of the most dangerous snake breeds.

Luke said: "They know that I provide them with fresh food and water and so they are not going to go out of their way to do harm to me when I do no harm to them whatsoever.

"People do say that I am mad. I think everything I am doing is good. I am maintaining this breeding colony of king cobras as a safety net - to protect the species from possible extinction."

Luke, whose daughter helped him at the sanctuary, had bred the endangered Asian king cobras in Eastwood for 30 years. He was known locally as the Steve Irwin of Eastwood after the Australian TV animal adventurer who was killed by a stingray.

A friend said: "Luke had maybe got a bit cavalier and believed he was invincible to snakes. He handled them without fear and it cost him his life."

Confident ... Luke strokes and kisses one of his snakes

Paramedics found Luke's body at the sanctuary, which was behind his home. Police said the killer snake had been contained and the public were in no danger. A neighbour said: "It's a complete shock. Luke was famous round here for his snakes.

"He'd kept them since a boy and had so much experience handling them. He'd think nothing of picking them up and wrapping them around him.

Face to face ... Luke and friend examine one of the deadly cobras

"It's such a tragedy. He dedicated his life to king cobras and said they would never become extinct as long as his sanctuary lived on." Luke had been bitten by a cobra in the past but had luckily got to hospital before the venom took full effect.

He told an interviewer: "When I got out of my car, I lost my legs and just went. Luckily, there were two nurses waiting for me with a bed."

Luke had 20 adult and four juvenile snakes. He planned to breed 100 more.

The king cobra is the longest of all venomous snakes. A single bite is poisonous enough to kill an elephant.

Pub jual air sperma kuda jantan

SEORANG pelayan wanita memegang dulang yang berisi gelas mengandungi air sperma kuda jantan di pub Green Man di Wellington, New Zealand baru-baru ini.

WELLINGTON - Sebuah pub di New Zealand memperkenalkan minuman terbaharu dalam menunya iaitu air sperma kuda berperisa epal, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Pub Green Man di sini menawarkan minuman itu pada harga £12 (RM58) untuk setiap hidangan 30 mililiter.

Bahan mentah minuman itu diambil dari sebuah ladang kuda di sini dengan setiap hidangan mengandungi sekitar 300 juta sperma kuda.

Pemilik bersama pub berkenaan, Steven Drummond berkata, minuman itu yang dihidangkan sejuk, popular dalam kalangan pengunjung lelaki dan wanita.

Dia mendapat idea untuk menggunakan sperma kuda semasa cuba mencipta minuman baharu dalam satu pertandingan makanan tempatan. - Agensi

Pejabat Facebook tidak mewah disangkakan

Kanan: SEBUAH meja dan bangku dalam sebuah bilik untuk pekerja di ibu pejabat Facebook.

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MENLO PARK, California - Ibu pejabat baru Facebook di , Amerika Syarikat (AS) tidak mempunyai ciri-ciri kemewahan walaupun ia merupakan antara laman web paling kaya di dunia, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Tiada permaidani dan hiasan dalaman yang mewah dalam pejabat tersebut.

Terdapat banyak paip terdedah yang dibaluti kertas kerajang perak dengan wayar bergantungan dalam bangunan ibu pejabat berkenaan.

Gambar-gambar ruang dalaman ibu pejabat baru Facebook yang dibina di kawasan seluas 23 hektar di sini disiarkan dalam laman web berkenaan awal bulan ini.

Para pengunjung mungkin terkejut kerana kedatangan mereka disambut dengan siling terbuka dan lantai konkrit tanpa karpet atau sofa mewah.

Ruang dalaman itu yang lebih menyerupai kilang banyak menggunakan kotak kayu yang diubah suai sebagai meja manakala susun atur tempat duduknya pelik kerana ada yang menghadap dinding.

Walaupun bangunan berkenaan mempunyai kapasiti untuk menempatkan 9,000 pekerja, Facebook kini mempunyai sekitar 2,000 kakitangan yang bekerja di premis barunya itu.

Laman Facebook yang bernilai AS$70 bilion (RM212.3 bilion) diramalkan memperoleh pendapatan sekitar AS$2 bilion (RM6 bilion) pada tahun ini.

Berdasarkan maklumat majalah Forbes, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Facebook, Marck Zuckerberg merupakan orang ketiga paling kaya di dunia dalam sektor teknologi maklumat.

Zuckerberg yang berusia 27 tahun dilaporkan memiliki kekayaan sehingga mencecah AS$18 bilion (RM54.5 bilion). - Agensi

Motosikal terbang pertama di dunia

CHRIS MALLOY menguji sebuah motosikal terbang yang diciptanya di Sydney, baru-baru ini.

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SYDNEY - Seorang bekas juruterbang helikopter, Chris Malloy mencipta sebuah motosikal terbang yang pertama di dunia di dalam garaj miliknya di sini, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Malloy, 32, mencipta motosikal seberat 270 kilogram itu dengan menggunakan bingkai udara carbon-fiber dan sebuah enjin kereta BMW.

Motosikal itu yang mengambil masa selama dua setengah tahun untuk dicipta boleh terbang pada ketinggian 3,048 meter dan mampu bergerak pada kelajuan 160.93 kilometer sejam.

Satu tangki minyak penuh akan membolehkan motosikal itu bergerak sejauh 148.05 kilometer selama 45 minit manakala ia mungkin dijual pada harga lebih AS$71,809 (RM218,981) sebuah.

Malloy enggan mendedahkan jumlah kos sebenar untuk menghasilkan motosikal itu tetapi dia menyatakan dia membelanjakan AS$223.51 (RM681.03) seminggu.

Dia berkata, prinsip asas motosikal itu ialah dia bergerak sama seperti sebuah helikopter Chinook dan sebuah motosikal biasa.

Setakat ini, tali diikat pada motosikal itu semasa ujian dilakukan bagi mengelak ia terbang terlalu tinggi. - Agensi