Asia

Invasion of the fat planes! There's a really fat green plane at Heathrow (which looks a little like Thunderbird 2)... And at Hong Kong International, there's some sort of fat pink alien spacecraft! (Or these might be fire training aircraft…

Taking its name from the nearby city of Dohuk, also spelled Dahuk, Dohuk Dam supplies the city with drinking water and has a 45m wide Kurdistan flag painted onto the Dam. Top to bottom the flag is red, white and…

Seated at the top of 268 steps in the Po Lin Monastery in Hong Kong, is the Tian Tan Buddha - the world's largest 'seated outdoor bronze statue of the Buddha'. The 34 metre tall sculpture can be seen facing…

It looks like the pilot of a small aircraft has crashed into Juhu garden in Mumbai! Actually, it turns out that this plane has never flown: it has no engine and is made of concrete, which I hear is not…

Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex is purportedly used for the manufacture of China's Nuclear weapons. The plant is centred in a small patch of high-resolution satellite photography, but I'm sure those readers who understand Nuclear power plants can tell all sorts…

Here in Niigata, Japan, we can see what may well be the world's largest football! Presumably it's a gas tank of some sort - can anyone translate the japanese? It's likely that this ball was decorated for the 2002 World…