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Tran Van Hay may have the world's longest hair. At approximately 6.2 meters long the 73 year-old vietnamese man keeps it balanced on his head under a scarf and it looks like a giant turban. He unravels it for visitors and his wife lays it out on the table to show them just how long it is.
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Using only his bare hands, french Spiderman Alain Robert scales an 150 meter building in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. People watch as Robert easily reaches the top of the National Telecommunications building in 20 minutes.
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Japan suffered a severe earthquake registering 7.2 on the Richter Scale with the city of Kobe seriously damaged. Rescuers are searching the rubble and people are being brought out alive as other teams assess the damage.
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South Vietnamese troops fighting against the Vietcong in a ferocious battles on the Newport Bridge during the Tet Offensive. The South Vietnamese sustained heavy casualties and injured children caught up in the crossfire were rescued.
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South Vietnamese troops and US Marines battle to recapture the town of Hue, with bodies being checked for booby traps and civilians caught up in the fighting and leaving. The battle was part of the Tet Offensive.
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Gruesome body parts greet customers of a bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand. Artist and baker Kittiwat Unarrom has sculpted life-like heads, feet and hands from dough in the bakery's kitchen and exhibits them in glass cabinets in the shop. He says his edible art lures one hundred visitors a day.
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On 2nd April 2005 Pope John Paul II died after a prolonged struggle with ill health. Thousands of pilgrims queued for the chance to see him lying for public viewing at Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in Rome, Italy.
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As the communists pushed further forward the South Vietnamese Army retreated along Highway 1 with some soldiers walking until they were picked up and others who were too badly wounded had to stay where they were until rescued.
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An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale shook Los Angeles for 40 seconds. The death toll was low as it took place in the early hours of the morning when people were asleep but serious damage was sustained by buildings and elevated freeways.
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In a Japanese aquarium three Beluga Whales sing for their keeper. There is also a musical walrus which sits up and plays a Swiss Horn.
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In Germany a rabbit breeder raises Grey German Giants and he grown so fond of one of them that he is going to keep it and not eat it.
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A jordanian comedy actor has amazing eyeballs that he can pop out on demand. A leading eye surgeon in Jordan says Abdullah Al-Basrim has an extraordinary ability of being able to control and squeeze his eye muscles to push his eyeballs forward.
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Communists have reached An Loc 56 miles north of Saigon. Government troops moved further along Highway 13 but were halted 11 miles south of An Loc. Wounded soldiers were evacuated.
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Fighting in Cholon, the Chinese area of Saigon, between US troops and the Vietcong. Civilians shelter from the crossfire and the US Marines capture prisoners.
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In Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales crowds watch competitors swim up and down a 133 meter bog filled with sulphurous, weedy water. Some wear silly costumes but all entrants must not use conventional swimming strokes, relying on flipper power only.
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The largest industrial robot exhibition ever held took place in Tokyo, Japan in December 2005. It featured a dinosaur robot walking on two legs, a life-like female robot and a concierge robot.
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A man in India has been growing his fingernails for nearly 50 years and has to protect them with a cover when he moves around.
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