Bette Calman has been practicing and teaching yoga for the last 40 years and, although other people her age can hardly move anymore, she can pool of difficult yoga moves that put teenagers to shame. She can execute the “peacock” a difficult position in which the body is held horizontally, using only the power of the arms, the “bridge”, “lotus” and can stand on her head with unnatural ease.

Asked when she is going to retire, Calman said

‘You’re never too old. The body is a remarkable instrument.

‘It can stretch and stretch, and get better all the time. Forget age’

Ms Bette Calman teaches up to 11 classes every week, in Williamstown, Australia, teaching others the remarkable effects of yoga.

Here are the Rules…

1. The Roaches have to be over 2 1/2 inches making it an adult Madagascar hissing cock roach.
2. Sean has to put more than 11 in his mouth to break the record.
3. Once more than 11 are placed in his mouth he has to keep them in there for at least 10 seconds.

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Listening to the album the band is definitely trying to move in a slightly different direction from overly “serious” street rap. The Uzi icon makes that a little hard to believe without listening though. The picture of the Koala with an Uzi on the CD cover is almost adorable and only a little disturbing. We’re fairly certain they were trying for the latter. The Uzi should hit e-tailers in early November.

The world’s biggest burger has been unveiled. The enormous meal sells for 499 dollars at Mallie’s Sports Grill and Bar in Southgate, Michigan, USA. Restaurant owner Steve Mallie said it took eight hours to bake the bun big enough to hold the 185lb burger.

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Marine researcher Paul Chambers, from the Société Jersiaise, was one of the fishing party and identified the find. He said he was surprised to find the isopod away from the Mediterranean sea. Isopods are normally about 2cm (1in) long and live in fish, surviving on the animal’s blood, in warm waters.

Mr Chambers said: “When we emptied the fish bag out there at the bottom was this incredibly ugly looking isopod. Really quite large, really quite hideous – if you turn it over its got dozens of these really sharp, nasty claws underneath and I thought ‘that’s a bit of a nasty beast’.

“I struggled for weeks to find an identification for this thing until, quite by chance I stumbled across something that looked similar in a Victorian journal. Apparently there’s not too much ill effect to the fish itself except it’s lost its tongue.”

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Michelle Childers and her husband, Daniel, were taking a recreational drive on a rural road in Idaho on Sept 5 when a spruce tree crashed through the passenger side window of the vehicle.

The twenty two-year-old said she then felt a “strange” pressure on her neck and shoulder. “I asked (my husband) ‘what where is it?’ “she said.

Her husband, twenty two-year-old Daniel Childers, told her that the tree limb had impaled her. The branch was more than an inch in diameter and 18 inches long. However, Mrs Childers said she felt no pain.

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The couple drove to the Lochsa Lodge near the Idaho-Montana border to call for help and was flown by helicopter to St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont. Childers said the 13-inch tree limb was removed from her neck during a six-hour surgery.

Doctors discovered that the branch had somehow missed her jugular vein and her windpipe. The branch penetrated its way to the back of her left shoulder.