Chelsea add a golden touch

BLUE IS THE COLOUR ... Fernando Torres, Petr Cech, Frank Lampard and Daniel Sturridge model Chelsea's new kit for next season

IF their new kit is anything to go by, Chelsea have high hopes for next season.

The FA Cup and Champions League semi-finalists have incorporated a touch of gold to their traditional blue home shirt.

And Roberto Di Matteo, or whoever is in charge at Stamford Bridge come August, will hope the new design translates to success on the pitch.

UP CLOSE ... Chelsea's home shirt for next term

Praying for a quick getaway?

On 'yer bike ... mantis presses itself against plant

Caters

By JO SAYER

THIS praying mantis has really plant his hideaway — stems that look like a BIKE.

The insect was snapped lying across the curly vegetation in Borneo, Indonesia.

Photography university student Eco Suparman, 23, was lucky enough to capture the funny moment while visiting the Ambawang River Village cemetery.

In such a grave location, it's no wonder the insect got the spokes.

Adele is rolling in the dosh

Note perfect ... how Adele might look with her cash

By STEVE HAWKES, Business Editor

ADELE has topped the charts again — as Britain’s richest young musician.

The Rolling in the Deep star’s fortune has tripled in the past year to £20million after huge sales of her album, 21.

It’s seen Adele, 23 — who also had a hit with Chasing Pavements — leapfrog Cheryl Cole, Leona Lewis, Katie Melua and Joss Stone as the wealthiest pop star under 30 in the UK.

Steve Redmond, of the Entertainment Retailers Association, said: “Adele’s been the success story of the past year by a mile. You only get an Adele once every ten years. It’s success on a ginormous scale.”

Moolah ... the richest young musicians

But Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, 22, tops the Sunday Times overall list for youngsters. He’s worth £54million after starring in blockbuster The Woman in Black.

Potter of gold ... Daniel Radcliffe tops rich list

Daniel’s co-star in the Potter films, 21-year-old Emma Watson, appears in both actors and models charts, with £26million tucked away.

Keira Knightley, 27, also appears in both categories with £30million, and is the highest earning model thanks to her Chanel work.

Cash model ... Keira Knightley earns most

She pipped Irish starlet Kiera Chaplin in the list, which also includes WAG Coleen Rooney.

Pickled animals form backbone of anatomy display

Exposed elephant ... animals' anatomies are the focus of new exhibition

By ELLIE ROSS

An exhibition that shows animals in their most stripped back form — dissected, pickled and reassembled — will open on Friday.

Featuring around 100 specimens, Animal Inside Out displays the anatomical structure of some spectacular creatures.

Skin deep ... giraffe

It includes a giraffe revealing its neck vertebrae and a goat cut open to display the foetuses inside.

There is also a lamb constructed from its own capillaries, and a horse's head that is cut into three cross sections.

Pickled primate ... a woman views a plastinated gorilla

The elephant took a team of 30 three years and 64,000 man-hours to complete.

Preserved ... a woman views a goat exhibit

The animals — which all died of natural causes — were preserved using plastination.

Hopping mad ... a hare

Georgina Bishop, the museum's exhibition developer, said: "For us this is not grisly at all.

Animal Inside Out ... a plastinated elephant, giraffe and gorilla on display at the exhibition

"This is about science, anatomy, physiology.”

The exhibition opens at the Natural History Museum on April 6, 2012, and runs until September 16, 2012.

Jaws ... a woman views a shark

'Cow killer' bug's hair is a white old mess

Creepy ... the Thistledown Velvet Ant

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LOOKS like this insect is having a bad hair day.

The tiny Thistledown Velvet ant is just two centimetres long. But thanks to its vicious sting it is known as Cow Killer Ant.

Despite its name it is a wingless female wasp. It is found crawling through lawns or digging around soil.

Snapper Robert Jensen, 58, captured this super close-up photo while travelling through the Mojave Desert in California.

His 22-year-old son Chris spotted the critter wandering around on the ground.

The male of the bug species are even smaller — though it does not mean their sting is any less painful.

Kereta terbang selama lapan minit

kereta Transition bergerak di sebatang jalan raya di sebuah lokasi yang tidak didedahkan.

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DEE-ANN DURBIN, Amerika Syarikat (AS) - Prototaip kereta terbang ciptaan syarikat Terrafugia Inc. berjaya menamatkan penerbangan sulung pada bulan lalu.

Kenderaan itu yang dinamakan Transition memiliki dua tempat duduk, empat tayar dan sayap yang boleh dilipat.

Ia mampu terbang pada ketinggian 426 meter selama lapan minit dalam ujian yang diadakan pada 23 Mac lalu.

Setakat ini, kira-kira 100 orang telah membayar deposit sebanyak AS$10,000 (RM30,502) untuk membeli Transition.

Bilangan pembeli dijangka meningkat selepas kereta itu dipamerkan semasa Pameran Automotif New York berlangsung pada hujung minggu ini.

Menurut syarikat berkenaan, Transition dijual pada harga AS$279,000 (RM850,952).

Kenderaan tersebut turut memerlukan landasan untuk terbang.

Ketika ini, kereta itu menjalani satu siri ujian kemalangan bagi memastikan ia memenuhi piawaian keselamatan AS.

Menurut jurucakap syarikat itu, kelajuan Transition boleh mencecah 112 kilometer sejam (km/j) di jalan raya dan 185km/j di udara. - Agensi

Bapa rantai anak pada tiang

LEHER seorang remaja berusia 13 tahun dirantai pada sebatang tiang elektrik di Battambang semalam. - AFP

BATTAMBANG - Seorang bapa di Kemboja merantai leher seorang anak lelakinya pada sebatang tiang kayu elektrik di sini bagi menghukum remaja berkenaan yang ponteng sekolah untuk bermain permainan Internet, kata polis semalam.

Remaja berusia 13 tahun itu dirantai pada tiang elektrik sekitar dua jam.

Jirannya kemudian menghubungi pihak polis yang tiba di tempat kejadian bersama seorang tukang kunci untuk membebaskan mangsa.

"Si bapa amat marah apabila menemui anak lelakinya di sebuah kafe Internet dan bukan di sekolah sehingga dia sanggup merantai anaknya di khalayak sebagai pengajaran," kata Timbalan Ketua Polis Battambang, Cheth Vanny.

Menurutnya, mangsa turut dipukul oleh bapanya.

Bapa berusia 40 tahun itu, Sok Thoeun yang bekerja sebagai pemandu teksi motosikal melarikan diri selepas insiden berkenaan yang berlaku pada Selasa lepas.

Dia kini diburu polis kerana melakukan penderaan terhadap kanak-kanak.

"Dia sedang diburu," kata pegawai berkenaan.

"Penderaan seperti ini menyalahi undang-undang," tambahnya lagi.

Penggunaan Internet di Kemboja adalah antara yang terendah di Asia Tenggara dengan kurang 1.5 peratus daripada 14 juta penduduk Kemboja menggunakan kemudahan tersebut. - AFP

Ikan flowerhorn jadi tumpuan pengunjung

BENTUK bonggol yang terdapat pada ikan itu.

BANGKOK - Seekor ikan flowerhorn yang mempunyai bonggol berwarna merah pada kepala menjadi tumpuan para pengunjung pada satu festival ikan di sini semalam.

Diadakan pada setiap tahun di Thailand, festival yang dikenali sebagai Pramong Nomjai Thai Tuala itu mempamerkan pelbagai jenis ikan eksotik dan mahal seperti flowerhorn dan arowana.

Pada tahun ini, pameran yang diadakan di sebuah pusat beli-belah itu akan berakhir pada 1 April depan. - Agensi

Rubber sculptures are the wheel deal

Artworks made from nothing but old tyres

Recycled art ... rhinoceros-type creature

SWNS

By MATT QUINTON

Last Updated: 28th March 2012

Imaginative Yong Ho Ji salvages rubber for his designs from old cars he finds at scrap yards.

He then spends months cutting each tyre into thin strips before moulding them together into models of animals, with some standing more than 5ft tall.

One of his scary sculptures is a huge rhinoceros-type beast, complete with an enormous horn.

Another of his creations is a huge lion rearing up on its hind legs, while one sculpture is a Minotaur, a creature from ancient Greek myth.

Yong Ho, from Korea, told how he had the idea of making models from tyres after visiting his local scrap yard to find parts for his car.

Cat's nice ... sculpture of a lion

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He explained: "Because of their rubbery nature, tyres can be cut, bent, and manipulated into many different forms and shapes. The flexibility and the strength of tyres drew me to them.

"Every artist has their own medium they work best in and for me it's definitely old tyres. You could say I'm burning rubber."

Minotaur madness ... sculpture of mythological creature

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He uses up to 50 different tyres on a single sculpture, with each artwork taking anywhere from a few weeks to several months to finish.

He added: "Many people tell me that they are frightened by my works. But the truth is that our society is already familiar with freakish things.

Incredible artwork ... model monster

SWNS

"Take genetic engineering and environmental pollution for example.

"There have been cases where eating genetically modified food could have caused strange, unexplainable diseases: babies born with two heads, and a lab mouse with a human ear growing on its back."

Isn't it rubbery ... model made from used tyres

Kelawar berusia 100 tahun dipamer

SEORANG kakitangan memegang seekor kelawar buah berusia 100 tahun yang telah diawet di Akademi Sains Semula Jadi di Philadelphia pada Jumaat lalu. - AP

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PHILADELPHIA - Seekor kelawar buah dari India yang berusia 100 tahun yang telah diawet dipamerkan di Akademi Sains Semula Jadi di sini.

Kelawar itu merupakan antara haiwan yang dipamerkan sempena sambutan ulang tahun yang ke-200 akademi tersebut.

Haiwan tersebut juga merupakan antara 18 juta spesimen yang disimpan di akademi itu. - AP