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What sort of a woman would you prefer as your partner for the rest of your life? - Devoted home-maker, control freak, shopping and soap opera obsessive or an ambitious tech-savvy banker? If you browse biwihotohaisi.com [an ideal wife], the Indian website you can have a trial run on the type of wife you'd prefer as a life partner.

At this website you can choose between the above mentioned types of virtual wives.

The men subscribing to the service receive automated telephone messages from the virtual woman they have chosen, to help them make an informed choice when the time comes to land a real wife. For example Ritu Homemaker, aged 23, asks her 'husband' to 'please eat your lunch, I have made your favourite dish', while 25-year-old Electricity Thakur is described as 'dominating' and 'bossy', threatening to 'send your bed to the office if you don't leave soon'.

The life of Milli Naughty, a 21-year-old excitable secretary in a multinational firm, revolves around shopping trips and neighbourhood gossip. Lastly, 26-year-old Shalini from the City is an ambitious, tech-savvy banker who purrs the likes of 'we'll totally connect, honey'. In a country where arranged marriages are still the norm and dating is often frowned upon, matrimonial websites are big business, and the website's idea is that bachelors will rush to sign up to its parent site, Bharat Matrimony.


'Monkey Man' breaks his own 100m record

Although Usain Bolt is the fastest man on earth I bet he cannot beat Kenichi Ito in a 100 metre race running on all four limbs known as the "Monkey Man." Ito will win in such situation as Bolt is not used to running on all fours.

Recently Kenichi Ito defended his spot in the Guinness World Records for the fastest four-legged 100-metre dash, breaking his own previous mark with a time of 17.47 seconds. He had previously set the record in 2008 with a time of 18.58, according to Guinness. Back in April, Ito discussed his unique running style, which he modelled after the African Patas monkey.

According to the International Business Times, Ito has developed a total of six distinct four-legged running styles, from his fast gallop to a more leisurely walking pace. He also spoke about the nine years he has spent training in somewhat difficult conditions.

"In the streets around here I get stopped by the police, so I went up into the mountains for about a month for a kind of four-legged training camp," he said.

"But on the first day, a hunter mistook me for a wild boar, and he tried to shoot me." While his time is nearly double that of Bolt's record-setting 9.63, Ito believes his way of running will eventually gain steam."One day, I am certain that all sprinters will be running on all fours," he said, adding "That is my dream." The 30-year old Japanese has been training for a decade.

He studies how primates move through books, videos and zoo visits and even tries to move on all fours in his everyday life. Ito hopes racing on all four limbs will one day become an official track and field event.


New weapon to tackle unruly airline passengers and terrorists

Alcoholic drinks are normally served to airline passengers and some of them who are unable to take one too many start misbehaving and it is called "RAGE". This kind of unruly incidents has now got out of hand and as a result a major airline association has called on governments and the industry to adopt better measures for dealing with unruly passengers.

Crews reported more than 8,000 incidences of bad passenger behaviour last year, according to the International Air Transport Association, which represents about 240 airlines. The association passed a resolution that called on governments and the industry to work together on new guidelines to solve the problem. If you are such a menacing character after one too many, beware, Sichuan Southwest Vocational College of Civil Aviation in Chendu in China's Sichuan Province, has commenced a kung fu martial arts course especially for flight attendants.

The college has started this course to teach its 20,000 students how to subdue opponents while on board by using kung fu. In addition to misbehaving passengers, Ye Wen passed down the tradition of Wing Chun kung fu. The college said Wing Chun is "quite suitable to be practised in narrow and confined spaces" - and it is not the first organisation to consider it for air safety. According to in 2011, Hong Kong Airlines required all cabin crew to train in Wing Chun. Wing Chun is also known as Ving Tsun or Wing Tsun.

It is specifically for close-range combat, and the moves focus on striking and grappling. Flight attendants on China Eastern Airlines - one of the country's big four carriers - are learning the Chinese martial art. Zhang Yuhong, a senior official with China Eastern's cabin services department, said the first 20 stewardesses have passed their training and are preparing to return to duty. "Flight attendants are usually the hijackers' first - and to their minds - easiest targets.

By learning basic self-defense and wrestling skills, they not only can protect themselves, but also win time for the air police to subdue the outlaws," Zhang said.

"The decision has been made [to train all staff] because of the recent satisfactory training outcome," he added. Over 2,600 flight attendants will now undergo training to help specialised aircraft security personnel to disarm and overpower passengers threatening the safety of aircraft, Zhang said.But the news of the nimble but deadly flight attendants fully able to overpower threatening passengers has met with derision from some Chinese air passengers."Will the stewardesses punch me if I ask for an extra drink?" Atian Nan Xiao Wai, wrote on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.

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