Head chef Karthik Kumar, 28 cooking in the kitchen of the Brick Lane Curry House, New York, New York on August 5, 2010 A New York Indian restaurant is serving up brave customers a seriously spicy curry dish that they claim is the hottest in the world. Entitled the ‘Phaal Curry Challenge’, the Brick Lane Curry House in Manhattan’s East Village invites willing customers to chow down on a fiery hot meal containing ten of the world’s spiciest chilis. So spicy and so high on the Scoville that measures the piquancy of peppers, the phaal curry has to be prepared by chefs wearing a gas mask to protect them from the fumes. Containing the bhut jolokia chili, which the Indian military is preparing to use in their famed ‘curry hand grenade’ and strikes up to 1,000,000 on the Scoville scale, the Brick Lane curry packs a formidable punch. However, Brick Lane have yet to have their phaal tested precisely by a team, but it is worth noting that Tabasco sauce scores 5,000 on the Scoville scale

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Pop Singer Katy Perry visits “The Late Show with David Letterman” in New York, New York on August 24, 2010. I swear Katy Perry is getting hotter and hotter by the day, too bad her music is getting sh!tter and Sh!tter

Kyle Lambert completes stage one in creating the portrait of Will Smith on his Apple Ipad in August 2010 in Altringham, England. From Amy Winehouse to Rihanna these colorful pieces of art see creation meet technology in perfect unison. Finger painted on the revolutionary iPad art, these striking pictures of celebrities, some startling realistic and others a bit more stylized, are the creation of young artist Kyle Lambert. Originally from Altringham in Cheshire, the 23-year-old recently graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University where he studied illustration and animation. His work, which can take up to eight hours per piece, is rooted in his life-long love of more traditional methods, which the iPad, which has only been available in the UK for less than three months, lets him use and adapt. For more of Kyle’s work visit: www.kylelambert.co.uk

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Chinese-made sandals with the image of U.S. President Barack Obama are displayed at a footwear shop on August 18, 2010 in Mumbai, India. I’m not sure what to make of this? It’s either respectful…or very disrespectful

A koala wedged in a car’s front grill on March 28, 2010, in Narrawong, Victoria, Australia. A lucky koala has cheated death after it was hit by a car. The vehicle struck the fully grown male koala near Narrawong in late March. The driver, who was traveling at about 80km/h, hit the brakes before collecting the animal with his Ford Falcon on the Princes Highway. Assuming the animal was dead, he was stunned to find the koala very much alive and wedged in the car’s front grill. The driver phoned Portland’s after-hours veterinary service before driving 15 cautious kilometers at low speed back into town. Local veterinarian Lisia Sturm was astounded to find the animal had survived without a scratch. The koala was cut from the grill with bolt cutters. It was kept under observation for the rest of the day before being released back into its prior habitat later that afternoon.

A guest enjoys the Daisy Suite at Longcroft Luxury Cat Hotel on July 20, 2010 in Welwyn Garden City, England. Tiddles can now live like a true aristoCAT while his owners are away in the UK’s newest and most luxurious cat hotel ever. Feline fans Abi and Matt Purser have just opened the doors to the extravagant Longcroft Luxury Cat Hotel. Guest cats who check in at the prime location in Welwyn Garden City, Herts., can live it up in style with amazing treats like meals from the hotel’s organic A La Cat menu, which was developed by a feline nutritionist. Scrumptious delights to suit every moggy’s palette include poached salmon, tiger prawns and even steamed white fish for delicate tummies – all served on shiny silver platters and bone china plates. With six individually-themed heated chalets with lots of space to choose from, guest cats are treated to Jazz and Classical music fed through a £5,000 state-of-the-art sound system. Outside their private windows are bird boxes to keep the cats are entertained, while porcelain water fountains deliver perfectly fresh oxygenated water. Safely tucked up in their lavish bedrooms, the married Abi, 35, and Matt, 40 offer 24 around the clock care and send absent owners postcards from the kitties giving updates on their own little holidays. And if life gets too tough the residents can take optional extras like the Grooming Pamper Package. As well as delicate treatments for the ears and eyes, the spoilt pets also get a nail shape, massage and shine.

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Aerial view of the completed arch on September 9, 2009 in Arizona. Twelve years in planning and five years in construction, the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge is finally taking shape. As illustrated in these incredibly detailed photographs, the structure, which is known more widely as the Hoover Dam Bridge or Bypass, is on schedule for its September 2010 completion date. Rising 890 ft above the Colorado River, when finished, its total length will be 1,900 ft, with its longest supported span running to 1080 ft. Built in the shadow of the iconic Hoover Dam, which powers most of Nevada and Arizona, the construction is the first concrete-steel composite arch bridge built in the United States. With costs estimated to run to £160 million, the bridge is designed to take the pressure off the congested US Highway 93 and is expected to carry 17,000 trucks and cars daily.

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