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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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