Japan's cutest female bodybuilder

Body- building is more a sport dominated by males. Even the females who indulge in nthis sport too have masculine looks and their feminine charm has to compromised in the process.

But it is not so with Japanese bodybuilder Tomoko Kanda who is proving that notion to be untrue. The 48-year-old has dedicated her life to bodybuilding and weight training, but also managed to retain her feminine beauty.

Tomoko, who lives in Abeno-Ku, Osaka, was introduced to the world of bodybuilding during her years working for the Department of Defense at Yokota Air Base. "I got fat very easily because of my body type, so a soldier there told me about weight training," she recalled. "I first did it to lose weight. I was 23 at the time, a late bloomer."

Although she was happy with the results that weight training gave her, Tomoko said she wasn't interested in bodybuilding competitions at first. "I thought I didn't have the body type for it," she said. "But then people started asking me if I wanted to enter competitions.

That made me think that maybe I was actually cut out for it. After that, I figured I could at least try competing in Japanese tournaments, so I did."

So Tomoko entered her first competition in 2002, and then again in 2004. After that, she trained for a few years and competed for another three years since 2010. So that's a total of five to six years of professional bodybuilding.

Tomoko says that the attention she gets is amazing, and that it inspires her to keep going. "I realised how interesting it was to be admired and praised," she said.

She starts her morning with a soy milk and yogurt shake. "This helps with digestion, contains lactobacillus bifidus, provides soybean nutrition from the soy milk and provides animal-based nutrition from the protein," she said. She also eats oatmeal for breakfast, because she wants a carbohydrate that's high in dietary fiber.

"The goal is to have a perfect body, like from an anatomy textbook. If I'm not careful about things like sodium, my body becomes weak and round. So if you want a hard body with well-defined muscles, you need to eat right."

Tomoko hits the gym every single day, spending two to three hours per session.

She trains the larger muscles of her body three to four times a week, and spends the remaining days doing cable training like TRX to work her smaller muscles. "I communicate with my muscles as I train," she said. "My body feels weird if I take even one day off."

But Tomoko is quite clear about the look that she wants to achieve, so she makes sure to keep in touch with her feminine side as well.

"When you start training for competitions, it's easy to fall into the same mindset as the guys," she said.

"That's why I'm careful to think about things like doing my nails to maintain my femininity."

"Creating a feminine, textbook-like body in a creative way is a lot of fun for me," she said. "My goal is to put on as much muscle as possible while keeping my curves. If I have big shoulders, a little roundness, and a small waist, I can get a nice body shape. An S-shaped body."

Her first name is Abcdefg Hijklmn last name is Opqrst Uvwxyz

Thirty-six-year-old Colombian woman is known as Miss Abc...It may be bizarre but this name is only the short form of actual namr. Her first name is Abcdehg Hijklmn and her last name is Opqrst Uvwxyz.

Before she turned to the alphabet, the Bogota resident used to go by 'Ladyzunga Cyborg', also a name that she fashioned for herself. In fact, the woman is known to have habitually changed her name several times in the past, but the alphabet name is probably her weirdest one yet.

In a recent interview Miss Abc revealed the reason behind her bizarre new name "I started looking for a name that nobody had in Colombia, or the world, so I thought ABCDEFG HIJKLMN OPQRST UVWXYZ," she said. "I've changed my name so people wouldn't know it's me. It's not because I was disturbed by it, but because I always wanted to bring an element of surprise."

Colombian National Registry officials were taken aback with her highly unusual request.

While they've accepted her previous name changes with raised eyebrows, they seemed to be particularly bothered by this latest one. Reports state that she actually started the process to change her name to Abc... in 2012, but spent a year fighting against government red tape before receiving an official ID card in 2013.

According to Daniel Molano from the Colombian National Registry, "If a civil notary had refused to modify her name in the civil registry, he would have broken his work obligations. Basically, no matter how unusual, this is something that should always be allowed."

Incidentally, name changes aren't Miss Abc's only unusual area of interest. An art teacher and fashion designer during the day, she turns into a leather-clad dominatrix at night!

World's only retirement home for old cats

"What will happen to my pet cat after my death?" This may be one of the uncertain feelings troubling old folk. "I wouldn't want my lifelong friend to be put in a pen for the rest of its life." For these worrisome old folk there is an ideal place called the Lincolnshire Trust for Cats, in Lincolnshire, England.

It is a charity that claims to be running the world's only retirement home for cats. It is currently home to nearly 80 elderly cats living out their last days in comfort.

So Lincolnshire Trust for Cats provides an alternative - a safe haven where cats can grow old and die in peace. The unique home is located on seven acres of land on the outskirts of Osgodby village.

It has three centrally-heated sitting rooms connected by enclosed outdoor areas, and every room is designed to be facing south, so that the cats can enjoy plenty of sun-bathing. Felines are fed top-quality food and enjoy a variety of amenities, like heated beds, sofas and even a fireplace.

To admit a cat into this unique retirement home, owners must pay a one-time fee which currently stands at £850 ($1,300). The trust bears all future costs, including any treatment or surgery that the cats might need. "For cats to come to us people have either got to make a provision in their will, or people come to look round. I don't think anywhere else does it because people come all the way from London with the cats to come here,"said Trust founder Jain Hills.

Apart from the retirement home, the trust also cares for abandoned cats in need of new owners - about 400 in total. Interestingly, Miss Hill admits that despite working with cats, she's more of a dog person. "I've got five dogs at home," she said. "When you work with 400 cats all day you need to go home to a dog. I couldn't run a dog charity but I can run a cat charity because I can stand back from it. I don't get emotionally involved."