Resources
BNET Resources
- sort by:
- Relevance
- Date
- Popularity
- Indiana Jones survives most perilous quest at Cannes
- CANNES, France AFP — Indiana Jones survived his first perilous outing in the Kingdom of Critical Knives on Sunday, winning a friendly round of applause at a press preview at Cannes and respectable reviews. The world premiere of the fourth and latest installment in the adventure series, and the...
- Research articles 2008-05-18
- Petite Thai action star plans to take on the world
- BANGKOK AFP — She may be small and weigh not much more than a drink of water, but tiny Thai martial arts star Yanin "Jeeja" Vismitananda is proving that petite packages can still pack a punch. At only 162 centimetres five foot three inches tall and 43 kilograms (95...
- Research articles 2008-03-12
- WORLD Tonight: Pilot is sacked
- A BRITISH pilot has been sacked after performing a low-flying stunt with a new 230-ton Boeing 777, it was disclosed today. Captain Ian Wilkinson took the Cathay Pacific plane within 28ft of the ground in a ceremonial fly-by on a delivery flight on which VIPs were aboard. Cathay Pacific said...
- Research articles 2008-02-25
- WORLD Tonight: Pilot is sacked
- A BRITISH pilot has been sacked after performing a low-flying stunt with a new 230-ton Boeing 777, it was disclosed today. Captain Ian Wilkinson took the Cathay Pacific plane within 28ft of the ground in a ceremonial C fly-by on a delivery flight on which VIPs were aboard. Cathay Pacific...
- Research articles 2008-02-25
- Cathay Pacific sacks pilot after 'fly-by' stunt
- AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Hong Kong based carrier Cathay Pacific has sacked the UK pilot of the maiden flight of its Boeing 777-300ER after he performed a 'fly-by' manoeuvre that took the aircraft to within 28ft of the ground. The aircraft had taken off from Boeing's...
- Research articles 2008-02-25
- Duck! Here comes the paint-wielding foie gras raider
- GENEVA AFP — A Swiss speciality store was Thursday raided by a hooded intruder who splashed paint to denounce the sale of foie gras -- a delicacy confectioned from the liver of force-fed geese and ducks. The fugitive, who burst through the front door and splattered a bucket of...
- Research articles 2007-12-20
- Daredevil Evel Knievel dies at 69
- LOS ANGELES, California AFP — Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, who wowed and terrified crowds with his daring long-distance leaps and equally spectacular falls, died Friday at the age of 69, his website said. The site gave no cause of death for Knievel, the man who survived death-defying stunts in...
- Research articles 2007-11-30
- Australian comedians arrested for stunt at Bush hotel
- SYDNEY AFP — Two stars of a hit Australian comedy show were arrested on Thursday as they carried out a prank outside the hotel where US President George W. Bush is staying, their network said. Julian Morrow and Chas Licciardello, from the satirical program "The Chaser's War on Everything,"...
- Research articles 2007-09-06
- No slowing down for Jackie Chan
- LOS ANGELES AFP — At 53-years-old, Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan is still doing his own stunts. Retirement, he says, is the last thing on his mind. His latest film, "Rush Hour 3," which opens at the North American box office next week and in his native Hong...
- Research articles 2007-08-03
- Chinese spiderman jailed after climbing tallest building
- SHANGHAI AFP — A Chinese climber was detained on Wednesday after scaling the country's tallest building in a feat emulating the stunts of French "spiderman" Alain Robert, state media said Wednesday. The man surnamed Zou, started climbing the 430-metre (1,410-foot) Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai on Tuesday evening, the...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Dutch kidney giveaway TV show was a hoax
- THE HAGUE AFP — A Dutch TV show featuring a dying woman deciding which of three candidates would receive her kidney turned out to be a hoax on Friday, in a stunt to highlight the need for more organ donors. In the last minutes of the live show which...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Briton first to fly over Everest in powered paraglider
- KATHMANDU AFP — The first big stunt of this year's Everest season has been pulled off by a former British soldier, who has made the first overflight of the world's highest peak by powered paraglider. "It was an incredible experience," Bear Grylls, 33, told reporters in Kathmandu Thursday. ...
- Research articles 2007-05-17
- Chinese skywalker wins world high wire championship
- SEOUL AFP — China's Abudusataer Wujiabudula on Saturday won what is billed as the world's first high wire championship, organisers of the unusual stunt said. Wujiabudula, an ethnic Uighur, took 11 minutes 22.49 seconds to walk a one-kilometre (3,300-foot)-long and three-centimetre (1.2-inch) thick wire strung across the Han River...
- Research articles 2007-05-05
- Riders who are wheelie special
- The world's best trick cyclists dazzled people in Newcastle with some eye-popping stunts. Car giants Nissan launched the Qashqai Urban Challenge Tour ( a free riding competition ( spreading over five European Cities, beginning with Newcastle. And people gathered to watch the best in the business perform an...
- Research articles 2007-04-28
- Philippine police to charge hostage-taker
- MANILA AFP — Philippines police prepared to lay charges Thursday against a day care centre owner who took hostage a busload of his own pupils, but in the slum where he operated there was sympathy for his cause. Armando Ducat is expected to be charged with possession of illegal...
- Research articles 2007-03-28
- 'Aqua Teen' hubbub shows true power of guerrilla tactics.(News)(Cartoon Network promotional campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force)(Brief article)
- Byline: emily tan "The U.S. is going nuts with security hysteria. We need more pushing the envelope, not less,'' said Robin Garr, media director-supervisor for Clifton Organic Works. Adam Reid, director-manager of advertising and marketing for Buhler Industries, thought "the free...
- Research articles 2007-02-12
- Welshman staples hand to table emulating 'Jackass' TV stunts
- LONDON AFP — A booze-fuelled Welshman who was hospitalised with his hand stapled to a table admitted it was a "Jackass"-style prank attempted after watching the US television series. Jonathan Maybery, 24, from Swansea in south Wales, said he had been watching "Jackass", a cult show filled with crazy and...
- Research articles 2007-01-08
- Magician Blaine ends gyroscope stunt with dramatic plunge
- NEW YORK AFP — US magician David Blaine has successfully escaped from a gyroscope hoisted high above the streets of New York, two days after being strapped to the spinning device in his latest stunt. The 33-year-old conjurer jumped off the gyroscope, 15 metres (50 feet) above Manhattan streets, and...
- Research articles 2006-11-24
- Magician Blaine begins gyroscope stunt in New York
- NEW YORK AFP — US magician David Blaine was strapped into a spinning gyroscope and hoisted by crane above the streets of New York at the beginning of his latest stunt -- a two-day challenge for charity. The 33-year-old conjurer was locked into a harness and secured spread-eagle at the...
- Research articles 2006-11-21
- Golf drive to be measured in miles, not yards
- The record for the longest golf drive in history is likely to be smashed by thousands of miles Wednesday, when a Russian cosmonaut on a spacewalk hits a special golf ball as a promotional stunt. The bulky spacesuit makes a two-handed swing impossible. So Mikhail Tyurin, now living on the...
- Research articles 2006-11-17
- << Previous
- page 1 of 3
- Next >>
Refining Tags
