40 Of The Coolest Things To Have Ever Been Caught On Camera

1. Hot Air Balloons in Cappadocia, Turkey.

2. These clouds are called Morning Glory. This picture was taken in the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia.

3. In one city in Brazil, this is the separation between the poor and wealthy.

4. This bridge is located in Shandong, a Chinese Province, which is located across the Gulf of Jiaozhou. The bridge is the longest sea bridge in the world, measuring 22 miles long and is eight car lanes wide.

5. This is the border between Belguim and the Netherlands. This picture is taken in Belguim outside a cafe located in the Netherlands.

6. Population 1! This is found in Buford, WY along Interstate 80.

7. Located in Vienna, this is the highest chained carousel in the world! It is 383 feet tall!!!

8. Emerald Lake is located in Tongariro National Park in New Zealand. It’s located in the crater of an extinct volcano!

9. Dubai! Need I say more! The height of these buildings get as tall as 163 floors.

View looking down.

10. What an adorable family picture! Not too many families could get a photo like this!

11. Flathead Lake, Montana! The water is so clear you can see right to the bottom.

12. A video game store in Paris. Hard to believe that this floor is actually flat.

13. This is Floor 103 in Chicago, Illinois. What a crazy view!

14. This is what it looks like from the outside.

15. This is a picture of fog that completely covered the city of Sydney, Australia.

16. This phenomenon is known as Danxia landform. It can be found in China in several different places. This particular one is found in Zhangye, Province of Gansu. The color is due to the accumulation of red sandstone and other rocks over millions of years.

17. This is the Happy Rizzi House found in Brunswick, Germany.

18. This is by far one of the craziest airports I have EVER seen! This is the Gilbraltar Airport.

19. Found on the Isle of Lamu in the Indian Ocean. Looks like paradise.

20. Autumn is here!

21. A lighthouse in Mare, France. I don’t think I’d be willing to be this lighthouse guard.

22. A monument in Kaunas, Lithuania shown during the day and evening.

23. The airport on the Maldives. This is an artificial island found in the Indian Ocean.

24. Marcus Levine is an artist whose work can be found in galleries in London. He starts off with a white wooden panel, then hammers nails into it making it into beautiful pieces of art.

25. Two times a year, if you’re lucky enough, you can see approximately 10,000 Gulf of Mexico Sting Rays migrate. They go from the Yucatan Peninsula to  Florida in the spring, then head back in the fall.

26. This restuarant is amazing. Located in Zanzibar, you can access it by foot or by boat depending on the tide.

27. A moon-shaped building in Dubai.

28. A river over a river. This is the Magdeburg Water Bridge in Germany.

30. A desert filled with Phacelia, also known as Scorpion Weed. These only bloom once every several years.

31. How would you like to work here? These are the offices of Selgas Cano located in Madrid.

32. In the town of Skagen, which is located on the northernmost point of Denmark, you can see where the Baltic & North Seas meet. The two tides cannot merge together because they are different densities.

33. A very remarkable bridge found in Seoul, South Korea. It’s called the Banpo Bridge.

34. This statue was created by Bruno Catalano and is located in France. It made me do a double-take.

35. The longest traffic jam in the world! This happened in China and was 161 mile long!

36. A forest located in Gryfino, Poland. They are unsure what is making the trees grow at this angle.

37. A storm caught on camera in Montana.

38. An amazing tunnel found in Sequoia National Park, California.

39. This is called Thor’s Well and is found in Cape Perpetua, Oregon. This is happening due to a moderate tide and strong surf.

40. A sunset caught perfectly while inside of a wave.

Lisa Marie Presley sues business manager after her $100m Elvis inheritance reduced to $14,000

 Lisa Marie Presley is suing her former business manager for the loss of almost all her $100 million inheritance – accusing him of “reckless and negligent mismanagement” and claiming she has only $14,000 left.

The only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, she inherited his entire estate on her 25th birthday, in 1993.

Elvis’s fortune had dwindled to only a few million dollars at the time of his death in 1977, but the power of the Presley brand – including the tourist attraction Graceland – meant assets were built back up into the $100m trust.

Yet 25 years later Presley, now 50 and a singer in her own right, claims she has been left with almost nothing thanks to the actions of Barry Siegel.

She accused him, in a law suit filed in Los Angeles this week, of dissipating her wealth “through his reckless and negligent mismanagement and self serving-ambition”.

She also claimed Mr Siegel’s “hopes of attaining his own celebrity in the entertainment industry” led him to place her assets in “risky ventures.” 

In the documents, Presley claimed Mr Siegel sold 85 per cent of her interest in Elvis Presley Enterprises. He then allegedly began liquidating Presley’s assets in order to supplement her trust’s income.

Presley also claimed Mr Siegel’s business decisions left her with $500,000 in credit card debt.

However, Mr Siegel and his company, Providence Financial Management, filed their own lawsuit in response to Presley’s claims, alleging her out-of-control spending led to her financial predicament, and counter-suing for $800,000 in damages.

Leon Gladstone, a lawyer for Mr Siegel, said he had sued Presley first for non-payment.

“It’s clear Lisa Marie is going through a difficult time in her life and looking to blame others instead of taking responsibility for her actions,” Mr Gladstone said.

And the chapter is just the latest legal wrangling for Presley, who still lives in Memphis.

She is currently battling her fourth ex-husband, father of her nine-year-old twins Michael Lockwood, in the divorce courts and claiming she is $16 million in debt – although Lockwood disputes that, saying “she has not disclosed her assets or their values”.

She was previously married briefly to Michael Jackson and Nicholas Cage, and for nine years to musician Danny Keough, with who she has two children – a son, Benjamin, and a model daughter, Riley.

Japan to pay travel costs for nuclear attack ‘storytellers’: The Japanese government will fund from April the travel costs of storytellers, both within Japan and abroad, who will share the testimonies given by ageing victims of America’s nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Japanese government will fund from April the travel costs of storytellers, both within Japan and abroad, who will share the testimonies given by ageing victims of America’s nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The cities, devastated by the 1945 bombings in the final phase of the second world war, began training such storytellers in 2012 and have dispatched them to other areas in Japan with recipient entities covering the costs.

To alleviate the financial burden, the Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry has earmarked 30 million yen (US$280,000) in the draft 2018 budget to fund the programme. The government will also conduct English lessons for the messengers before overseas trips.

About 100 people – mostly locals, who have been trained to pass on the experiences of the world’s sole nuclear attacks in war – have been assigned by the two cities to give talks in places such as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum.


According to the two museums, there were some 180 requests in 2016 for talks by atomic bomb storytellers at universities and schools. Around 30 per cent came from outside Hiroshima or Nagasaki prefectures, including Fukushima and Akita in northeastern Japan.

But because of the heavy burden of covering transport and accommodation fees, one local government was forced to give up its plan to receive a storyteller.

Sakuko Sasaki, who will become a Hiroshima “atomic bomb legacy successor” in April, said: “I want to inherit the activities of the atomic bomb victims, who have continued to share [their experiences] with the next generations while suffering [at the same time].”

“I am determined to go anywhere if I am requested,” said the 67-year-old.

The National Peace Memorial Halls for the Atomic Bomb Victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki will serve as contact points and receive requests for the storytellers’ dispatch from March 1.

Following the US atomic attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, an estimated 140,000 people had died as a result by the end of that year. The second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later is believed to have killed 74,000 people by the end of the year.

The combined number of hibakusha, people who survived either bombing, stood at 164,621 in March last year. Their average age was 81.4, according to the ministry.

Dad turns Son in for Snapchat Gun Posts, Cops find Child Porn on his phone

After the Parkland school shooting that horrified the nation, a Miami father told police he was worried about his son’s disturbing posts with guns on Instagram and Snapchat.

So he gave investigators his son’s smartphones — and they found child porn, cops say.

Miami-Dade Schools police early Friday jailed Sean Mesa, 18, a student at Dr. Michael Krop Senior High, on charges of possessing child pornography, as well as improper display of a firearm.

Mesa’s arrest comes amid the tightening response to online threats in the wake of the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland. Ex-student Nikolas Cruz, armed with an AR-15 and extra ammo, killed 17 people and wounded 15 more in the worst school shooting in Florida history. 

Before the shooting, Cruz had come to the attention of local and federal authorities for his disturbing online posts with threats and weapons — red flags that were never investigated.  

Since the shooting, police across Florida have arrested a wave of young people who have posted threats about violence online.

Mesa came to the attention of U.S Homeland Security Investigations’ Violent Gang Task Force, which forwarded his Instagram and Snapchat photos “recklessly displaying firearms and pointing them at the camera,” according to an arrest warrant.

Miami-Dade Schools Detective John Messenger went to Krop High on Tuesday to try to “engage in a friendly conversation to understand what Sean Mesa’s fascination with firearms was.” 

Mesa, however, bristled — telling him “he likes guns and it was his right to post on social media whatever he wished.” But Mesa’s father, concerned about his sons’ posts, agreed to give police the teen’s two phones. The U.S. Secret Service examined the phones and found a video of what appeared to be a child under the age of 10 being sexually abused, according to the warrant.

The video had been sent to two others in a group chat, the warrant said.

Using other devices, Mesa continued posting on Snapchat. Another post showed a pistol on his lap with the caption: “now they watching so I ain’t stopping.”

“The latest Snapchat photos have students and staff at Dr. Michael Krop Senior High alarmed and afraid,” according to the warrant.

Trump says security clearance process is actually too rigorous

A week after his chief of staff ordered an overhaul of the process for granting White House security clearances, President Donald Trump on Friday blamed an overly rigorous background vetting process for holding up the approval of his son-in-law’s permanent security clearance.

“It’s a broken system and it shouldn’t take this long,” said Trump during a joint news conference at the White House with visiting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is one of the president’s top advisers and works on a myriad of high-level and sensitive national security issues such as brokering peace in the Middle East. And more than a year into Trump’s presidency, Kushner continues to work under an interim security clearance, which gives him access to highly sensitive intelligence information.

The issues with granting such access on an interim basis came under scrutiny earlier this month after one of Trump’s top aides, Rob Porter, was forced to step down amidst allegations of spousal abuse that were revealed in media reports. Porter was likewise operating under an interim security clearance, and the ordeal exposed serious flaws and shortcomings in the White House’s handling of those allegations and security clearance process. Several top White House officials were told numerous times about the allegations against Porter and the fact that they were holding up his clearance. 

In a memo distributed to White House staff last Friday, Chief of Staff John Kelly announced that all White House employees with background investigations pending since June 1 will have their temporary clearances revoked as of today, the New York Times reported.   

But earlier this week, White House officials said that crackdown won’t affect Kushner or the work he’s doing, according to a USA Today report that noted Kushner has had to amend a national security questionnaire after he failed to disclose contacts with Russian nationals and others.

Administration officials have tried to portray the delay in Kushner’s security clearance as normal, and told Politico that high level administration officials who require the highest clearance undergo heightened scrutiny.  

But on Friday, CNN revealed that Kushner hasn’t obtained a full security clearance partly because of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and that Kushner likely won’t receive full clearance while the probe is underway.

On Friday, the Washington Post also reported that a top Justice Department official alerted the White House two weeks ago that “significant information requiring additional investigation” would further delay Kushner’s security clearance process.

The issues with Kushner’s security clearance process has left some senators concerned, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).

Earlier this month, after CNN reported that several dozen other Trump administration appointees lack full security clearance, Blumenthal and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) asked the inspector general for the intelligence community to investigate the Trump administration’s security clearance procedures.

“We are concerned over the apparent low and inconsistent threshold the Trump White House uses for obtaining an interim security clearance,” the senators wrote in the letter.  

On Friday, at the White House news conference, Trump complained that the vetting process takes “months and months and months” even for people who don’t have complex financial issues.

“Do you know how many people are on that list. People with not a problem in the world,” said Trump. “So that will be up to General Kelly… General Kelly respects Jared a lot, and General Kelly will make that call. I won’t make that call.”

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