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Added on the 27/10/2015 13:34:11 - Copyright : Reuters - Next Media
Tensions are high in the Spratly archipelago as the US conducted an operation testing China’s territorial claims.
Border guards patrolling the Kerch Strait picked up a man sailing a hand-made raft of plastic bottles on Wednesday and brought him into custody. Authorities noticed the man's ludicrous floating device while patrolling the water around a mile from the coastline. It turned out that the man, a 53-year-old native of Tashkent, was attempted to make the crossing from the Russian mainland to the Crimean peninsula via his rickety, hand-made contraption. Police gave the traveller a warning for violating the marine travel laws and sent him on his way.
Welome to China's Cold War era secret nuclear bunker. Called the 816 Nuclear Military Plant, the former underground fallout shelter and nuclear energy production facility is now recognized as the world's largest man-made cave. Hidden under the mountains in China's Chongqing region, the 816 plant served as the fall-back contingency location for Chinese political and military leadership in case of nuclear war, but the secretive location has now opened its doors to the public for the first time in October.
This odd-looking solar powered vehicle was built by one elderly Chinese man, who had only one goal in mind. 64-year-old Wang Yongzhi built the car so that he and his wife Zhang Shuyan could travel through China on a budget. The solar-powered vehicle can cover a distance of over 120 miles with good sunlight and reach a speed of around 30 miles per hour, but the two-seater can also use gas as a backup when the weather is bad.
The U.S. Navy’s largest and most expensive ever destroyer took to the Atlantic Ocean on Monday for its first test in open seas.