The Atlantic Road was opened in 1989 and is now toll-free. Chosen as “Norway’s construction of the century” in 2005, the 8.72-kilometre (5.4 miles) long road links together small coastal communities. Photograph by Giorgio Ghezzi on Flickr

The Passo dello Stelvio, located in Italy, at 2757 m (9045 feet) is the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps. It was picked by the British automotive show Top Gear as its choice for the “greatest driving road in the world”, although their search was concentrated only in Europe. This image beautifully captures the top quarter of the pass. (source) via @ Damian Morys on Flickr

That’s not coral — but a true-to life model of the human vascular system. This series of veins have been plastinated using a method developed by Dr. Gunther von Hagens, the scientist behind the often controversial Body Worlds exhibits. A liquid plastic gets injected into the blood stream. When it hardens, scientists can study the system as it is in the human body. Via @ http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-49231-5.html

A tractor-trailer clipped a school bus full of students Tuesday, flipping the bus onto its side and sending 32 people – 29 of them children – to a central Texas hospital. Police said a 9-year-old boy was ejected through the escape hatch in the bus roof, and the bus driver was knocked unconscious. The accident occurred about 7:30 a.m. on Farm-to-Market Road 93 on the southeastern outskirts of Temple, about   Read More ...

WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minnesota – Friends and parishioners of St. Pius X Church in White Bear Lake reflected on the lives of Jerry and Barb Heil at an evening prayer service Jan. 18. On Jan. 19, divers resumed the search for 21 people still missing after a Costa Concordia cruise ship cruise ship crashed into the Italian coast Jan. 13. The Heils are the only Americans who remained unaccounted for   Read More ...

HLN’s A.J. Hammer talks with Jessica Alba about being a celebrity mom. Going green can seem difficult for those of us middle-class Americans who search discount online stores for reusable diapers, and scour the Internet for deals on bamboo clothes. For celebrities, it should be simple, but with all that money and fame, it’s easy to forget about the needs of Mother Earth. It really shouldn’t be, which is why   Read More ...

It turns out that the Golden Globes feud between Madonna and Elton John was, like the award show itself, just a warm-up for a nastier, more passive aggressive Oscar feud in which one of the singers may be left alone and crying over a melting ice cream cake while the other is toasted by a host of celebrities even as an inexplicable sense of remorse crawls in the pit of   Read More ...

Is Kim Kardashian using charity work to reinvent herself?

Thailand prepared to welcome in the Year of the Black Water Dragon on Tuesday as the Lunar New Year approached. In Bangkok, children attended a unique performance which included an underwater Chinese dragon dance. Scuba divers performs an underwater dragon dance as part of the Lunar New Year celebrations at Siam Ocean World in Bangkok

Draughts also known as checkers is believed to be the most popular board game played everywhere, on the streets, on the market places, barber shops, work places, in prisons and now under the water. The rules of draughts are very simple and flexible for everyone to learn even without using books and amazingly even the blind people find time to enjoy the game and its good that the FMJD included   Read More ...