Mystery - 'Big head elf' spotted in Sabah?

Sin Chew Daily on 5 November 2009

A Sabah Foundation officer claimed that when he was taking pictures of a newly built drainage dike in order to record the progress of the construction, he inadvertently captured a picture of a “big head elf”.

Labai Iao (name transliterated), 49, believed that the drainage dike construction might have “disturbed” the spirits “resting” there and thus, the “big head elf” was shown in his picture.

He said that he took about 20 pictures from various angles with his mobile phone at 4.30pm on 21 Oct and the pictures were taken for the construction report. The new drainage dike was built to replace the traditional irrigation system that supplied water to over 100 paddy fields at downstream.

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A 'big head elf' riding on a dog's head under a fig tree is captured in a picture. (Photo courtesy: Sin Chew Daily)

A 'big head elf' captured in a picture. (Photo courtesy: Sin Chew Daily)

News - The world's tallest skyscraper opens in a blaze of glory... and it's been renamed after Arab ruler who bailed out Dubai with $25bn

Daily Mail on 5th January 2010

Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper in a glitzy ceremony this evening that was meant to put a brave face on crushing debt woes.

The £1billion tower reaches 2,717 ft, 200 storeys into the sky, exceeding the next highest structure by some 1,000 ft.

Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum renamed the tower Burj Khalifa after the president of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of the neighbouring emirate of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan.

Abu Dhabi has facilitated $25 billion in bailout funds for Dubai in the past year, fuelling expectations that Dubai will make concessions or cede some of its commercial power to its wealthier neighbour.

Concerns about Dubai's $100-billion debt pile, which has made Dubai's stock exchange one of the world's worst performing, overshadowed both the ceremony and boasts by the builder, Emaar Propertie, that the Burj heralds a new dawn.

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Spectacular: Even though many of the building's 200 storeys are unfinished, organisers are celebrating the launch with an arsenal of fireworks

Blast off: More than 6,000 guests watched as the world's tallest skyscraper was officially opened with a spectacular fireworks display

A number of the higher floors - up to the 160th - have been designated as office space, while there is a restaurant on the 122nd floor and a gym, with an indoor and outdoor swimming poo, on the 123rd floor - some 1,440 feet off the ground

Guests watched in awe at the opening ceremony, which took place despite the building not yet being finished inside

The Burj was designed to show off Dubai's new wealth and industrial might

Half a mile high: the tower was tarted at the height of the economic boom and built by some 12,000 labourers

The shadow of Burj Khalifa is seen from floor 124 of the Burj, the superfall skyscraper during a media tour in Dubai

Besides an observation deck on its 124th floor affording 360-degree views of the entire city, Burj Khalifa is home to world's first Armani Hotel, luxury offices and residences

Mystery - Great balls of fire! Embers 10,000 times hotter than our Sun left behind by supernova

Suzaku found another fossil fireball in the supernova remnant W49B. It detected X-rays produced when heavily ionized iron atoms recapture an electron. This view combines infrared images from the ground (red,green) with X-rays data from Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Observatory (blue).

Suzaku detected X-rays from fully ionized silicon and sulfur - which indicates temperatures of 17 million celsius

Daily Mail on 1 January 2010

The glowing embers left behind by one of the most powerful type of explosions in the Universe have been revealed for the first time.

Remnants from giant fireballs unleashed by a supernova are still glowing at temperatures 10,000 times hotter than the Sun thousands of years after the event.

They were captured by the Japanese Suzaku space observatory, after unusual features were detected in the Jellyyfish Nebula (IC 443), 5,000 light years away.

Read more:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1239586/Great-balls-Embers-10-000-times-hotter-Sun-left-supernova.html