Colonel Russel Williams was a Canadian Air Force officer entrusted with flying Queen Elizabeth II and prime ministers. But now shocking details of his double life have been exposed. The 47-year-old pilot pleaded guilty to murdering two women, sexually assaulting two others and committing dozens of break-ins in which he stole underwear from the bedrooms of girls as young as 11. Williams was the commander of Canada's largest Air Force base. He was arrested earlier this year. He often photographed himself in underwear which he stole from teens and young women. He collected hundreds of pieces of underwear and meticulously catalogued everything he had stolen. You can see some of his private photos after the jump.
Gotthard Base Tunnel with a length of 57 km (35.4 mi) is the longest railroad tunnel in the world and it will be opened in 2017 beneath the Alps in Switzerland. The breakthrough in the east tube was finally achieved on Fri 15 Oct 2010. You can read more about the tunnel here.
In a Mozambican village of Madamba locals are catching and selling rats on the side of a road. A stick with 6-7 fried rats costs about 30 cents. Every rat-catcher can earn up to 3 dollars a day which are a lot of money in this poor African country.
The Cannonball tree is native to the south of the Caribbean and to the northern parts of South America. Its fruits that look like cannonballs can weigh up to several pounds. And you have to watch out for falling cannonballs. They can kill.