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A ‘chopsticks bra’ has been unveiled in Japan for busy women looking to stash their eating utensils whilst on the go.

Bra maker Triumph International is pushing the green message with a bra it hopes will cut down on disposable chopsticks.

The ‘My Hashi Bra’ (or My Chopstick Bra) comes with collapsible chopsticks stashed inside the body of the brassiere.

According to the company they are compact and form part of the bra’s frame.

Triumph spokesperson Hiromi Shinta said: “Its small step, but because many Japanese chopsticks are disposable, big chunks of forests are being cut down. So we thought we could help promote the use of ‘My Chopsticks’ and help cut down on disposable chopsticks.”

Chopsticks were first used in China nearly 4,000 years ago and first went disposable in Japan about 130 years ago.

People in Japan throw away an estimated 25 billion pairs of wooden chopsticks every year, although many of these are made from recycled wood chips.

A Chinese town has made the world’s longest dragon.

Shuangfeng town, Taicang city, made the 2,008 metre long dragon to mark the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympics.

It is a mile and a quarter long and will need 1,200 dancers to support it at the town’s traditional dragon dance.

“More than 10 workers worked over the months to make this huge dragon,” a town spokesman told China News Network.

“It needed 4,200 metres of fabric and more than 300 bamboo poles.”

A Californian man ate 103 burgers in just eight minutes to set a new world record.

Officials likened the achievement of Joey Chestnut, 23, to Roger Bannister breaking the four minute mile.

He smashed the previous record of 97 burgers to win the Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Championship.

Brad Wahl, Krystal’s vice president of marketing, said: “We never thought we’d see someone anywhere near, let alone past the century mark when we started the Krystal Square Off in 2004.

“But like when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile barrier more than 50 years ago, Joey Chestnut has set a new benchmark today for all moving forward.”

The previous record was held by Japan’s Takeru Kobayashi who won all three previous Krystal Hamburger Eating Championships, but did not compete this year after having a wisdom tooth extracted.

A Chinese man has driven his pick-up truck more than 200 metres on two steel cables 20 metres high.

It took Liu Suozhu of Korla city, Xinjiang, 15 minutes to drive from one hill to another on the twin tightrope wires.

“I just wanted to do something special,” he told the Tianshan Network.

As a safety precaution, the four corners of the truck were attached by four thinner cables to the two main cables.

An American company have developed a car that can fly easily and beat traffic jams.

At the touch of a button the Transition from Terrafugia four-wheeled car extends a pair of wings either side of its main body.

Chief operating officer, Anna Mracek Dietrich, said: “It will take just a few seconds to transform and will be fully automated after the command is given in the cockpit. We’re currently sold out for at least the first year, approaching the first two of production”.

The Transition will use low-cost electronics and feature GPS and auto-pilot weather radar.

The prototype, which runs on super unleaded petrol, cruises at 120mph and lands at 65mph.

The estimated hourly fuel burn of four gallons equates to 30mpg in flight.

Terrafugia - which means escape from the earth - are selling for £74,000.

The company hopes the first car will be ready by next December.

A jewellery company in China has made a bra out of more than 2,500 diamonds.

Priced at 10 million yuan (approx £650,000) and named Perfect, it was demonstrated by a model at the Yibai Department Store in Jinhua city, Zhejiang province.

The maker, Royal Décor Jewellery, says the piece used natural diamonds weighing more than 100 carats. The diamonds are set in 300 grams of white gold.

“The piece took more than 200 hours to create,” said a spokesman.

Among the diamonds, 5 are 3 carats, while the rest are mostly 2 or 1 carat.

“The clasp of the bra is a 5.4 carat sapphire surrounded by 60 small diamonds”, added the spokesman.

The basement of the store was filled with viewers, reports China News Network.

A pair of jeans has been recreated using over 3000 drinks cans.

The five-metre pair of pants has been built outside a shopping centre in China.

Minghui Plaza in Xiamen city is offering shoppers the chance to guess how many cans were used to build the display.

As a prize the winner will receive 365 cans of coke, reports Southeastern Express.

An eco-protester put face masks on exhibits from the Chinese Terracotta Army at the British Museum.

The man jumped barriers to place masks bearing the slogan “CO2 emission polluter” on two of the life-sized figures to highlight China’s poor pollution record.

Security guards intervened after they were alerted by other visitors, reports the London Evening Standard.

Martin Wyness, 49, was dragged away from the 2,200-year-old exhibits and has been banned for life from visiting the museum.

A Chinese official who travelled with the exhibits was inspecting the soldiers to see if they have been damaged.

Security has now been stepped up but Mr Wyness, 49, said he had no regrets about his actions.

“I did it because I have got two children and I am very, very concerned about the global inaction over climate change, particularly what is happening in China.”

My Wyness travelled from his Herefordshire home with daughters Sophie, 14, and Ruby, seven, and insisted he had not damaged the figures.

“It is a shame that I have been banned for life because I love the British Museum, all of their exhibitions are wonderful, but the future of my children is more important than my pleasure of visiting the British Museum.”

A British Museum spokeswoman said: “The British Museum can confirm an incident took place and that the gentleman was immediately detained by British Museum staff. Security measures have been further strengthened.”

A Chinese city is hoping to get into the record books by letting off a twelve-and-a-half mile string of firecrackers.

A total of 35 fireworks factories in Liuyang city, Hunan province, have worked together to create the firecrackers.

Zeng Mengxiong, the chief technician of the project, told the Changsha Evening News: “We are doing this to celebrate the upcoming Liuyang International Firecracker Festival.”

Zeng estimates it will take 85 to 90 minutes for all of the firecrackers to explode: “At the beginning and end, the firing speed should be slow, in the middle, really fast,” he added.

The firecrackers will be let off on the opening day of the festival, October 26, when onlookers will be kept back a safe distance.

“We have set up a 10 metre-wide quarantine zone on either side of the string, and will have more than 3,000 guards,” a government spokesman said.

“We aren’t worried about rain, since the firecrackers are water-proof.”

The government says it is applying to have officials from the Guinness Book of Records present on the day of the event.

Two Chinese newly-weds are hoping to get into the record books as the world’s shortest couple.

Li Tangyong, 3ft 7ins, of Shunde city, married Chen Guilan, 2ft 4ins, this week.

“We had to postpone the marriage for three years because both our families objected,” he told New Express.

But on October 1, they joined 30 other couples in a group wedding at a park in the city.

At the wedding, they announced they have applied to the Guinness Book of Records and are awaiting confirmation.

The world’s highest swing has been set up on an 1,100ft TV tower in China.

The swing is set on a 700ft high viewing platform on the tower in Harbin city, Heilongjiang province.

Participants sit on the steel seat and swing out over the city, beyond the edge of the platform.

The swing is called “Game for brave people”, reports Harbin Daily.

The tower is the world’s second-highest steel tower, after the Kiev tower in Ukraine.

George Bush has raised more eyebrows after getting his dates wrong and winking at the Queen.

His slip-up came during the official welcome ceremony on the south lawn of the White House, attended by 7,000 people.

The US president first aged the monarch by 200 years by starting to suggest she came to the US in 1776, reports Sky News.

“You helped our nation to celebrate its bicentennial in 17… 1976,” he said in his speech.

As the crowd started laughing, he paused, turned to the Queen and winked at her.

He then declared: “You gave me a look that only a mother could give a child.”