(By Luke Waterson) - "This," Klaus Thomsen indicates a freshly made espresso with reverence, "is God in a cup." The former World Barista Champion isn't exaggerating. The coffee he's just prepared, using beans from Panama's Hacienda La Esmeralda, once prompted a customer to exclaim he'd seen the almighty's face in the brew.
These images may look like colorful abstract artwork, but they are in fact maps of the planets, moons and asteroids in our solar system created from information collected by spacecraft and telescopes. The different colors correspond to different structures and features such as basins, craters, mountains, and plains (images by SPL/Bancroft Media).
A carpark on Shanghai’s Xietu Road began offering “hot chick” car wash services, with high heels, sunglasses, and bikinis burning up the scene, and various luxury cars all vying for a spot in line to experience the “erotic” car wash service.
Britney Spears and Demi Lovato are joining the judging panel on "The X Factor" this fall, part of Fox's effort to boost its underperforming music competition shows. The network's executives, in presenting next season's schedule to advertisers on Monday, also promised changes for "American Idol." While "Idol" remains Fox's centerpiece, as it has been for the past decade, it has lost a quarter of its audience this year.
