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Samba comes to Tokyo 
200 to Tango
Japan's belly button festival Air guitarists rock out for victory Lumberjacks put their skills to the test at the European Timbersports championships in Tyrol, Austria. September 23 - Competitors hope to shred the competition as Brighton hosts the 2008 UK Air Guitar Championship. As contestants worked their way through the heats to the final audience cheerometer each performance grew more extravagant. 
In its fifteenth year the Championship in Brighton sees "Cozza" take his third consecutive title.
Founder and compere Jeffrey Disaster hands over not just the grand prize but also the mantle of organising the event next year. read more... |
Sydney fashion show a washout as models go underwater
"I felt sorry for the hair and makeup artists because they spent so long doing my hair and makeup and as soon as I got in it just washed away, but it's all fun," said Jaynie Seal, a television weather presenter who was part of the show, sponsored by women's magazine Cosmopolitan and skincare label Neutrogena. Braving cool spring temperatures, Seal and another TV presenter, Jason Dundas, waved at the cameras underwater and tried to look glamorous. read more... 
South Africa fashion week Sep 13 - Spring and summer collections are lined up at this years Johannesburg fashion week in South Africa. South African fashion is a billion dollar industry and the Johannesburg fashion week is a major event there. This August designers from South Africa and elsewhere attended to reveal hot fashion trends. A Reuters Africa Journal report
High heel sprinters
Wearing high heels is hard work, and running in them is an entirely different skill. But that didn't get in the way of Russian girls participating in the Glamour Sprint race, where 100,000 rubles (around $4,000) was up for grabs. 
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Getting the dirt on swamp soccer
Wife carrying contest
Squishy start for Tomatina Champion axe wielders 27 Aug 2008 Lumberjacks put their skills to the test at the European Timbersports championships in Tyrol, Austria. 
Among the events were the springboard competition, stock saw, standing block chop, underhand chop and hot saw.
The championships will go on to the world championships in Ireland on September 24. read more...Pimp my rickshaw Lumberjacks put their skills to the test at the European Timbersports championships in Tyrol, Austria. 
Sep 17 - A traditional Beijing rickshaw is given a makeover with the addition of the rear body of a Mini Cooper.Named "the other rickshaw", the vehicle features four gold-plated dragons and other Chinese decorations. It was designed by Beijing's BMW car dealer which sells Minis who the rickshaw will attract the attention of visitors to Beijing following the 2008 Olympics. The traditional Beijing rickshaw had become a special attraction in the Beijing city tour with more than 1000 rickshaws being used to transport tourists around the city. read more... |
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is in winter now
a carnival in the city. and its famous carnival is six months away. But
on the other side of the planet, nearly 5000 Japanese and Brazilians together
danced to the rapturous beat of samba on a hot summer weekend in the traditional
Asakusa district of Tokyo, Japan. 
Deborah Lutterbeck reports. SOUNDBITE: Tango dancer Kyoko Yamao, saying (Japanese): 
The belly button festival brings young and old together for plenty of navel gazing. 
stomach
and pretend it was a head. 
opting to play in skirts.
remove all the grass and add gallons of water. 
travelled to the country of the midnight sun to compete in the bizarre races in which husbands have to carry their spouses around an obstacle course. 
12,000 kg of tomatoes were squashed and hurled to honour the town's patron
saint, St. Luis Bertran. Shopkeepers covered their premises with plastic
to protect their windows and walls from red stains.