This Fall, DreamWorks Pictures and director Steven Spielberg willl start the production of the first of three movies based on Belgium's swashbuckling comic book hero Tintin. While relatively unknown in North America, the comic book series which has sold over 200 million copies worldwide and been translated into 50 different languages, continues to be popular in Europe, 70 years after they were first published....

The symbolic Olympic torch arrived in Beijing, China from Athens, Greece to kick of a 130-day historic relay, counting down to the Summer Olympics. The new Olympic torch, shaped like a Chinese scroll was received with much fanfare by China's President Hu Jintao and thousands of people waving red and white pompoms....

At 8ft 5in, Leonard Stadnik is the tallest man in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records. While that sounds really cool and amazing, living a normal life and doing the things we take for granted is a little difficult for this extra-tall man....

Next time you eat your frosted flakes, be sure to examine them - two sisters from Chesapeake, Virginia did and found a flake that resembled the State of Illinois, USA. They put if up for sale on Internet auction site Ebay - and you will not believe how much they sold it for!...

A 160-mile square mile (four times the size of Paris) chunk of ice broke off yesterday in Western Antarctica. The ice is part of the Wilkins Ice shelf, which at one time covered over 13,000 square miles. However, the rising temperatures have impacted it severely over the years....

A little red house on the moon? If Swedish artist Mikael Genberg has his way this will be a reality by 2011. He has the full support of the Swedish Space Agency and even some big sponsors that include a car rental company and members of the Swedish Government....

If you think that is the real Miley Cyrus smiling at you - look again. The stunning image on the left is actually a life-like wax figure of Miley, unveiled at the famous Madam Tussauds in New York on Thursday, March 20th....

Last Wednesday, 15-year old Benjamin Russell was declared the official winner of the 33rd "Odor Eaters Rotten Sneaker" contest. Apparently, his sneakers were sooooooooo smelly, that the judges almost fainted!...

Five-year old Hunter is a kindergartner from Fillmore, New York. In January of this year, he was diagnosed with Burkett's lymphoma, a rare form of cancer that spreads quickly. As he undergoes treatment at a children's hospital in Buffalo, NY, he has one wish - to collect as many paper planes as he can so that he can be in the Guinness Book of Records as the boy with the most number of paper planes received....

It all began in May of 2006, when Petra, a beautiful black swan flew into a lake in the Western city of Munster in Germany. This is where she met the "swan" of her dreams - a big white swan-shaped Paddle Boat...

How would you like to be seen with this sparkly diamond studded iPod shuffle along with gold and diamond earphones to match? This exclusive one-of-a kind iPod Shuffle was one of the items up for bid at a charity auction in London on Saturday night....

Moko is a bottlenose dolphin that resides on Mahia beach on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. She spends her days frolicking with the local residents and tourists and is generally very popular - however what she did on March 12th has made her a hero, both locally and worldwide....

Dr. Seuss, the author of classics such "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham", holds a special place in the hearts of kids as well as parents who grew up reading his quirky novels. It is estimated that even today, one in every four children in America receive a Dr. Seuss as their first book....

On March 5th, over 750,000 students from all over the world participated in World Maths Day, an online math competition hosted by Australian company 3P learning in collaboration with Voyager Expanded Learning, a leading publisher of K-12 educational solutions in America....

Gibson, the world's tallest dog is already a celebrity in America. He has appeared on various television talk shows, has his own book - "Gibson Talks", his own website - www.gibsondog.com and even his own tile on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Now he is about to become a celebrity worldwide....

Eight-year old Joao Victor Portelinha de Oliveira, who lives in Brazil, really wants to be a Federal Judge. He wants it so bad that he decided to sit for a law school entrance exam this year and see how he did. To his amazement, he not only passed the exam with flying colors, but also received an admission letter to attend a private university - The Univesidade Paulista....

Now, in addition to producing "great cheese," California's happy cows will also be providing power to its residents. Earlier this week, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), California's utility company in collaboration with BioEnergy Solutions, unveiled a system that will collect manure (cow poop) from a dairy farm and refine it into biogas, (almost the same as natural gas)....

Calling all Spider-Man fans - the first animated Spider-Man show in a decade - "The Spectacular Spider-Man" aired it's first two back-to-back episodes on kids WB on the CW Network today at 10.am. if you missed it, catch it next Saturday at the same time....

If these determined runners look a little different from your normal sprinters - they are. They are on a very important mission - a quest to win 10,000 euros (about 12,000 U.S. Dollars), towards a shopping spree. The only wrinkle - they have to ditch their sneakers for stilettos (high heeled shoes)....

Just as you are getting used to a two-wheeler - comes a five wheeler, except it is way cooler! The StreetSurfer is the first real innovation in bicycles since their invention in 1818, and people who have ridden it claim that it is much better in many aspects....

Inspired by the Common Swift (a kind of bird), one of nature's most efficient flyers, the RoboSwift, is a small aircraft designed by aerospace engineering students at Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University in the Netherlands....

Knut the adorable polar bear made headlines last year, when his mother a resident of the Berlin Zoo in German, abandoned him. Since then, Knut has become a star of sorts, with a book about his life, his own blog and now a documentary on the first year of his life....

Late last year we told you about Alain Roberts - "The Real Spiderman". After being quiet for about six months, he has emerged again, this time in Sao Paolo, Brazil, where he was seen climbing one of the tallest buildings in the city - the 495 ft tall Edificio Italia - with his bare hands....

February 29th, also known as leap day is a special date. It appears on our calendars once every four years in what is known as a "Leap Year", when the year ends with 366 days instead of the normal 365. Leap years were created to balance out the differences between our calendar and the solar calendar....