Rachael Shardlow, a 10-year-old Australian girl, may have rewritten medical history after she survived a sting by a box jellyfish, which is considered the world's most venomous creature. Rachael had been swimming in Calliope River, near the town of Gladstone when she was stung. Losing consciousness, her 13-year-old brother had to pull her out with the jellyfish's tentacles still wrapped around her legs. Box jellyfish, smaller than a finger nail with long winding tentacles, are known for their incredibly painful stings. There is no known antidote and most victims die by drowning or heart failure. Zoology professor Jamie Seymour, from James Cook University, told ABC news, "When I first saw the pictures of the injuries I just went, 'You know, to be honest, this kid should not be alive.' "I mean, they are horrific. Usually when you see people who have been stung by box jellyfish with that number of the tentacle contacts on their body, it's usually in a morgue." WATCH:
Erin Andrews appeared on "Dancing with the Stars" once again Monday night, and she donned a particularly revealing outfit for the occasion. The ESPN sportscaster and her partner Maks Chmerkovskiy -- whom she claims not to date -- scored a combined 34, just two points out of first place. A dancing duo will be eliminated tonight. Andrews, who is negotiating a possible new contract with ESPN, has managed to juggle sports reporting while maintaining her role on the ABC show. Scroll down to see her performance last night.
MADRID (AP) -- One of Spain's top matadors was seriously injured in Mexico when a 1,100-pound (500-kilogram) bull gored him in the groin and hoisted him into the air, causing major blood loss, his manager said Sunday. Jose Tomas lost up to eight liters (17 pints) of blood after being gored Saturday by a beast named Navegante in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes. The bull's horn penetrated 4 inches (10 centimeters) into Tomas' groin and punctured a vein and an artery, manager Salvador Boix told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser from Aguascalientes. Tomas, one of Spain's most popular matadors, has a relatively rare blood type – A- – and bled so profusely that bullring officials appealed over the arena loudspeakers for compatible donors to come forward for transfusions, Boix said. Bullring doctors operated on the 34-year-old Tomas immediately to stabilize him, and he underwent more surgery later at a hospital for more than three hours. "Now he has new blood and is in intensive care, waiting to see how things evolve," Boix said, adding that Tomas is not conscious. Mexican television footage aired on the Web site of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo shows Tomas working the animal with his cape when the bull makes a quick turn toward the matador and catches him in the groin, lifting him into the air for a few seconds and shaking its head with Tomas dangling from its sharp left horn.
Once on the ground, Tomas rolled away and held his hands up as if to say he was OK, but a large, dark red stain was already spreading through his glittering gold suit. The newspaper El Pais said Tomas' injury was so serious that the bullring doctors who first operated on him did not even take time to anesthetize him. Tomas is known for a daring bullfighting style in which he gets particularly close to the bull. His full name is Jose Tomas Roman Martin, but he goes by just Jose Tomas. In Spain, he has been something of an enigma: in 2002, at the peak of his career, Tomas suddenly retired without saying why. Tomas returned to the ring in 2007 to tremendous fanfare – he told one interviewer "living without bullfighting is not living" – and since then had suffered a number of serious gorings in Spain.
In this episode of Asia Talk, we explore a variety of Indian dances and how it interwines with different cultures through traditional and modern means.
To mark World Earth Day on Thursday, the Public Works Department of India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh unveiled an environmentally friendly road construction project.
The project aims to save the environment from the hazards of plastic waste. Discarded plastic bags and other polythene material are used for roads, cutting down the amount of asphalt needed.
[Prem Kumar Dhuma, Chief of Himachal Pradesh]: "We gather the material (plastic) and use this in road construction, as a result of which the consumption of bitumen is much less, and above all the road gets a shining and lasting surface."
If the project proves successful, this unique method of road construction will be implemented across India.
Movie trailer mash-ups are awesome - not just because they mess with the structured format of trailers, but because they can do so in so many ways. Sometimes a lighthearted kid's movie becomes a drug-infested thriller (Toy Story 2 never looked so hardcore). Or sometimes, the highest grossing movie of all time gets exposed for copying a Disney movie from the 90's (You know what one we're talking about). While we wish some of these could be greenlit for feature-length films, for now we'll just have to enjoy the many mashed-up trailers that YouTube users have to offer.
