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Walkers claim to have found dead alien in Siberia
Read lifestyle news as you browse for sci-fi fancy dress with Escapade A video which two walkers claim shows the body of a dead alien has become an internet sensation among believers and sceptics alike. The men insist they were walking in the Siberian region of Irkutsk when they stumbled upon their find, which is around two feet tall with a skinny body and big head. Part of the so-called alien's leg is missing and it also has other bodily traumas, suggesting a potential reason for its death - if... Read more...
Star Wars-style planet 'might be able to support life'
Read lifestyle news as you browse for Star Wars fancy dress with Escapade When George Lucas dreamt up the planet of Tatooine in Star Wars, he probably wasn't thinking about whether or not it would really be able to support life. However, he may have been more scientifically correct than he realised, according to Jack O'Malley, a PhD student at the University of St Andrews. He has carried out research and found that a planet with two or more suns may indeed be able to house life, as there would... Read more...
Robert Pattinson: Filming end of Twilight was an anticlimax
Read entertainment news as you browse for Halloween fancy dress with Escapade Teen favourite Robert Pattinson has revealed that the last ever scenes for the movie versions of Twilight are over and done with - and that he found it a bit of an anticlimax. The actor told US chat show Live With Regis and Kelly that he is actually relieved it is all finished as it was a little like school. "It was a very long shoot - eight months - and it was hard by the end of... Read more...
Brits Zumba their way to fitness with gaming fun
Read lifestyle news as you browse for sexy fancy dress with Escapade British people seem to be shunning the gym and Zumba-ing their way to fitness instead, if new figures are anything to go by. The computer game Zumba Fitness has now earned its third week at the top of the UK games charts, with sales for the Xbox Kinect version up by 14 per cent in the past week. However, the Wii remains the most popular way to Zumba, accounting for 90 per cent of all Zumba Fitness sales.... Read more...
Winnie the Pooh 'has qualities we would like in our own friends'
Read entertainment news as you browse for children's fancy dress with Escapade Winnie the Pooh continues to appeal to children and their parents because he still has identical values to when he was first created. This is according to Mark Henn, supervising animator for the new Pooh movie, who told BBC News that the toy bear represents the same thing for viewers as he does for Christopher Robin. "I think that Pooh was very loyal and a faithful friend. Both are qualities we recognise and would like to see in... Read more...
New app shows how risky your life is
Read lifestyle news as you browse for occupations fancy dress with Escapade If you've ever wondered how dangerously you are living, then you might be pleased to know there is a new app to tell you. Fearsquare has been written by researchers at the University of Lincoln and works in conjunction with the popular Foursquare service. When users check in to various locations such as hotels or cinemas by visiting them, the new app compares the data with crime figures from local police databanks. It can then work out how... Read more...
Pranksters in Holland play trick with traffic lights
Read lifestyle news as you browse for fun fancy dress with Escapade Investigations are underway in Holland to find out how pranksters got to traffic lights to put a rude picture where the green lamp should be. According to the Metro, someone changed the set of stop signals in Nimwegen so that whenever they turned to 'go', an LED image of a stick figures making love flashed up. The trick caused chaos at the junction, as motorists stopped to gawp at the picture and pedestrians kept pressing crossing buttons to... Read more...
Scream 4 'is taking the series back to its roots'
Read entertainment news as you browse for Halloween fancy dress with Escapade David Arquette, one of the stars of Scream 4, has said the new sequel is taking the series back to its original roots. In an interview with the Times Union, the actor revealed it was quite strange to go back to the franchise after so many years, but explained the fact that Scream 4 takes a similar tone to the first movie from 1996 actually made it feel like coming home. "We have this new cast of kids... Read more...
Batman Live to come to a venue near you
Read entertainment news as you browse for superhero fancy dress with Escapade A new show based on the Batman story is set to tour the UK, beginning in Manchester in July 2011, it has been revealed. Batman Live is billed as a stage spectacular by creators DC Comics and is set to feature action, adventures and explosions. However, anyone hoping to see the Caped Crusader singing might be disappointed, as its creators were quick to point out it isn't a musical. Nick Court and Sam Heughen will alternate in playing... Read more...
Russian students launch rocket in honour of Yuri Gagarin
Read lifestyle news as you browse for occupations fancy dress with Escapade A group of Russian students paid tribute to Yuri Gagarin this week by launching a rocket from their university campus. April 12th 2011 marked 50 years since the cosmonaut became the first man ever to travel into space and orbit the earth. To celebrate, the Siberian State Aerospace University students made a rocket and then set it off into the air. For some reason, the craft was shaped like a guitar, but it certainly made for an interesting... Read more...
Ryan Reynolds is a caring Green Lantern
Read celebrity news as you browse for superhero fancy dress with Escapade Fans of comic book superhero the Green Lantern are no doubt eager to see Ryan Reynolds kicking some baddies' behinds when the he stars in the new movie that hits our cinema screen soon. However, he has shown he can be caring as well as heroic, speaking out to raise money for The Michael J Fox Foundation (MJFF) for Parkinson's Research, MTV reports. Fox is a well-known sufferer of the disease and Reynolds has said he is determined... Read more...
Amanda Holden emulates Marilyn Monroe for shoe ad
Read celebrity news as you browse for film fancy dress with Escapade Amanda Holden has been emulating another bubbly blonde this week as she posed for a shoe ad. The Britain's Got Talent judge is the feet of TrimSole Toning Footwear and she can be seen in the publicity photos lying on her stomach in a dress very similar to the one Marilyn Monroe wore in The Seven Year Itch. She also has her hair tousled like the iconic movie star and someone has even drawn on a little beauty... Read more...