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Eyes wide open on the world
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-01-28 14:21
Employee of Japanese electronics giant Sanyo
displays a piece of toast and a 'Winnie the Pooh' cartoon toaster. A
Japanese manufacturer said it had created a 'Super Toaster' which heats
the bread a split-second after slicing it. [AFP]
A man sticks a Valentine heart on a shop
window. Sweden's state-run pharmacy chain said it would host an attempt to
break the world record for the longest kiss as part of a campaign to
improve dental hygiene. [AFP]
Diew, a five year-old Thai elephant,
demonstrates how to use and flush a toilet at an elephant camp in Chiang
Mai province, in northern Thailand. Having taught Thailand's elephants to
paint, dance and play musical instruments, their Thai handlers are now
toilet-training the beasts, media reported. [AFP]
An Egyptian belly dancer performs at a Cairo
hotel. A group of Malaysian local government officials have cancelled an
Egyptian cruise and a troupe of belly dancers amid outrage at their
all-expenses paid trip, media reports said. [AFP]
Owen(L), a baby hippopotamus that survived the
tsumani on the Kenyan coast snuggles up to a giant tortoise near a century
old in an animal facility in Mombasa. [AFP]
Japan's toy maker Takara employee Nozomi Saeki
displays bean plants with messages such as 'Good luck,' sprouted from a
can. The plants also bloom to read 'I love you.' [AFP]
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