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More than 570 puzzle wizards have been showing at the Rubik’s Cube World Championship which is being held in Las Vegas, America.

Feliks Zemdegs from Australia was crowned champion after he scored the fastest average time for solving a cube – 8.18 seconds.

His quickest single solve was an amazing 7.36 seconds which is just outside the world record of 5.55 seconds, held by Mats Valk from the Netherlands – he finished in the runner-up spot.

The three-day championship had a total of 17 different events, which included solving a larger 7×7 Rubik’s Cube and completing one while blindfolded!

 

 

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A village school in the UK has found the answer to which times tables are the hardest to grasp for children.

The school developed an app and by using smart phones with some ingenious software, they found out that the hardest question is 6×8.

The sum of 6×8, recorded an error rate of 63 per cent, followed by the reverse 8×6, with an error rate of 60 per. Other multiplications students had difficulty answering correctly included ’8 x6,’ ’11×12,’ ’12×18,’ and ’8×12.’

The school assembled a databank of 60,000 responses from 232 children.During the study, participants submitted over 60,000 answers for analysis.

Other interesting facts that were found through the study are below.

These results revealed that when learning their multiplication tables, students learn ’1x…’ the quickest.

Boys answer more quickly, but have a great likelihood of producing an incorrect answer when compared with girls.

Students seem to have the most difficulty learning their 12x table

 

 

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An American family in Michigan is welcoming their 12th child. Amazingly, their latest addition is a boy, just like the other 11.

Jay and Kateri Schwandt believe they now hold the world record for the longest run of boys in a family.

The latest boy was named Tucker and weighed 3.5kg

“Of course. There was a chuckle in the whole room,” Teri, 38, said. “I looked at my husband, and we exchanged a knowing smile. When they say it’s a boy, I think, okay, no problem. I’ve got this. We know what we’re doing.”

Tyler is the oldest son at 21. When the school year starts, three Schwandt boys will be in high school, while five brothers are in lower grades. That leaves three more at home with Teri.

 

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Daredevil Anthony Martin has performed an amazing escape while jumping out of a plane.

The escape artist was handcuffed and chained to the inside of a coffin and then pushed out of a plane, 2000m up in the air.

He escaped from his shackles whilst plummeting to Earth at 130mph. The 47-year-old thrill-seeker then deployed his parachute to glide safely back to the ground.

Anthony said: “I didn’t feel any force, but what I felt was lot a of jostling.”

Anthony first performed the skydive escape in 1988

Everyone involved in the stunt landed safely – but don’t try it at home!

 

 

 

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Flash flood hits India - reading to

Flash floods and landslides in northern India have killed at least 1,000 people.

The majority of the flooding has occurred in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand over the past week.

Thousands of people are missing or stranded and the toll is expected to rise. At this stage around 40,000 people are still stranded, and the floods have been described as a “national crisis.”

 

Most of the stranded were people on a pilgrimage known as Char Dham Yatra, which takes Hindus to four of the holiest shrines in Uttarakhand between May and November.

More than 40 helicopters were being used to rescue pilgrims from remote mountainous areas, according to Indian officials, but the terrain hampered the operations.

A rescue helicopter crashed Friday, but no one died, while trying to evacuate pilgrims trapped in a village near Kedarnath in Uttarakhand.

 

 

 

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Rare comic book found

One of the world’s rarest comic books has been found in the insulation of an old American house.

Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, featuring the debut of Superman was found by David Gonzales when he was renovating his house. The comic was mixed in with old newspapers insulating the walls within his house.

The book had sat undisturbed in the ceiling of the house in Hoffman for over 70 years.

When it was released in 1938, the comic book sold for just 10 cents. Now in an online auction that ends on June 11, Gonzalez has already received offers as high as $137,000 for the comic book.

That’s more than 10 times the price that Gonzalez paid for the house in which he found the book.

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Flood hits Europe

Thousands of people have had to flee their homes as large floods have hit parts of central Europe.

The floods have been caused by heavy rain and caused dangerously high river levels in a number of countries.

At this stage at least seven people are known to have died and eight others are missing.

A state of emergency has been declared in the Czech Republic where 3,000 people have fled their homes to escape the rising water.

Schools in the Czech capital, Prague, have closed and the underground system has been shut. Animals from Prague’s zoo were moved to higher ground as flood waters covered parts of the site.

In Germany, more than 7,000 people have reportedly been moved from their homes in the town of Eilenburg

 

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