Cheese!

These dogs don't have big teeth - they have balls in their mouths! You can put food in the ball, which encourages your dog to go and get it... and bring it back to you with a big smile!

Strange food

Customers at a restaurant in Tokio can eat a new cuisine with an original ingredient: soil!
The soil is cooked and filtered, and then mixed with gelatine to make mud. Apparently, female customers love it!

THE HOBBIT

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Many people found that watching the first part of The Hobbit, filmed using ultra-fast 48 framesper-second 3Dtechology, made them feel so nauseous that they wanted to vomit. If that was not the case for you, here is the second episode i nPeter Jackson's trilogy about young Bilbo Baggins... and this time, tere's a dragon!

FRANKENWEENIE

This is a remake of Tim Burton's first Frankenweenie film, made in 1984. Disney said the first film was too scary and fired Burton! So don't watch this DVD alone...

BRUNO MARS

2012 was a busy year for Bruno Mars. The singer from Hawaii became an international star and played concerts around the world. Bruno released his first album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, in 2010. Bruno is a talented musician: he grew up in a musical family and plays drums, guitar, keyboard, bass, piano and harmonica. His second album, Unorthodox Jukebox, is sure to be a hit!

SPORTY PIGS

Splash! A Chinese farmer has made a diving board for his pigs. Each day the pigs dive into a pond. People come to see the pigs dive and the farmer says the animals are healthier because of the aquatic exercice. The farmer is happy. But are the pigs happy?

When they don't want to dive, the farmer has to puch them in!

One upon a time

Welcome to Storybrooke, where the residents are all characters from fairytales. But all is not well here - the Evil Queen has condemned everyone to a grim life by making all the ''happy endings'' disappear. To break the curse, Henry, the Queen adopted son, must fin his real mother - the daughter of Snow White Prince Charming- and make her believe in fairy tales.. This complicated story works thanks to the brilliant actors, the reconsittution of a magical universe and an eternal story of true battling evil. 

"Virtual Marilyn" causes legal dispute

A dispute over a "hologram" Marilyn Monroe could decide the future of what promises to become a hugely licratuve new form of entretainment: the digital resirrection of dead celebrities

A Los Angeles media company has controversial pplans to bring the blonde beauty back to life as a hologram...

Digicon Media, a los Angeles company that describes itself as a pioneer in the field of "virtual actors" says it has copyrighted a "Virtual Marilyn", which it plansto use in live stage shows. It claims that its re-creation ofthe actress has existed online since the 1990's. It contends that its digital version, which it plans to transform into a hologram og the performer, is now sufficiently distinct from the original to havean effectively taken on a legal life of its own.

STARS OF SILICON VALLEY

Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg (1984-)

Personal fortune: $14.7billion

University: Dropped out from Harvard

As a young student at Harvard, Zuckerberg was approached by Cameron and Tayler Winklwvoss, who wanted him to write the software for a new social website called Harvard Connection.

Since Facebook, which Zuckerberg subsequently created, was a very similar concept, the Winklevoss brothers have always maintained he stole the idea. This year, Facebook was floated on the stock exchange. It was valued at $108 bililon, briefly making Zuckerberg the youngest man in Forbes' list of the world's 40 richest people. The flotation became a fiasco as the company's valuation fell by $29 billion as investors realized the price had been exaggerated.

Apple: Steve Jobs (1995-2011)

Personal fortune: $8.3 billion

University: Dropped out of Reed College, Oregon

Steve Jobs co-funded the Apple Computer Company in his adoptive parents' garage in 1976. Although Apples were always seen as easier to use than other computers, PCs were much cheaper and by 1985 he was fired from hi sown company. Apple continued to decline, buy Jobs did well thanks to his possession of Pixar Studios, the makers of Toy Story. 

In 1996, Jobs returned to Apple, beginning its remarkable recovery. Guided by his obsession with good desing, the company produced a series of hit consumer products from 2000 onwards. By the time of his death, it had become the most valuable company in the world. The company is now led by Tim Cook, and desing remains under the control of Sir Jonathan Ive, the British designer responsible for the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.