Asia

This is the brilliantly bizarre-looking National Aquatics Centre, which is better known as The Water Cube. The building is perhaps best described as resembling some sort of "bubble cake", and when it's lit up, it looks pretty incredible. During the…

Unless you’ve been hiding under a very large rock, you're probably aware that today sees the start of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Held in Beijing, China, the celebrations begin at precisely 8pm local time, 8/8/08. This is a date…

On this day, August 6, in 1945 - the first nuclear weapon to be used in war was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb, Little Boy, was released at 8:15 local time by the American B-29 bomber…

Much to the annoyance of the tinfoil-hat privacy nuts, Street View's spread across the globe continues with two launches today: Japan and Australia! Japan has coverage in the following cities: Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Saitama, Chiba, Sendai, Sapporo, Hakodate, Kyoto and…

No, not that one - this cutting-edge bridge is in Japan, and it really is seriously wobbly! It's virtually serrated by virtue of its cutting-edge wibbly-wobblyness. It's so wobbly in fact, that it's only accessible to specially-built, hand-customised "wobbly vehicles",…

Such is the volume of new imagery that is added to Google Earth, that by the time we got around to posting the longest cross-sea bridge in the world, it had already been superseded. Fortunately for us however, the current…