Sports:Tallest Teen Basketball Player In The World

Call her Air Anderson.

This up-and-coming New Jersey high school basketball player is only 16, but Marvadene Anderson is already a giant on the court. At just under 6-foot-11 -- and still growing -- she's the world's tallest teenage girl.The Jamaican-born hoopster, who could tower over legendary ballplayers like Michael Jordan (6-6) and LeBron James (6-8), was the highest-scoring "netball" player in her country -- a sport similar to basketball.That on-court prowess earned her a scholarship to Rutgers Prep in Somerset, and for the last two months she's been hitting the hardwood to learn the rules of basketball.The Argonauts center was a standout with her teammates during a practice game Wednesday, where she played alongside pint-sized point guard Arielle Sherman, 15, who at 5-foot-2 barely reaches Anderson's elbow.Anderson uses her size to intimidate her opponents, block shots and make easy layups."Everyone has come up to me and asked if I play college basketball. I told them I'm only a sophomore in high school. They gasped when I told them," Anderson said.The gal giant, whose family remained in Jamaica, was taken in by Enid Angus, who discovered her talents.

"She's my heart. I committed to treating her like my own," she told the Asbury Park Press.Anderson said she got her nickname "Bubbles" because of her good humor."People are friendly with me because of my height and my personality. If I was tall and mean, I think I'd have a problem," she said.The biggest problem "Bubbles" seems to have is adjusting to the cold weather and finding clothes and shoes to fit her 210-pound frame and size-12 feet.As a schoolgirl back home, Marvadene confessed, she was teased a lot."They call me 'baby giant,' and my older sister Kimberly is 6-foot-4. They call us the Twin Towers," she said."The rudest thing anybody ever said about my height is that I'm not going to be able to find a husband."Rutgers coach Mary Coyle-Klinger and her sister, former WNBA coach Pat Coyle, have been working with their new star. Anderson picked up six points in her first game on Dec. 10 and Coyle-Klinger was not disappointed."Of course she is going to be a star," she said. "She's a natural. She's only been playing two months and it's amazing how well she's adapted."

Crazy:Revenge killing in India takes off heads of 8 family members

Eight members of a man's poverty-ridden family were shot and beheaded before their bodies were thrown into a river in eastern India after he secretly married a wealthy girl, police said Wednesday.

Police in the eastern state of Bihar found the eight bodies floating in a river and have charged 15 people, mostly from the girl's family, with the murders.

The weekend killing took place after 21-year-old Ratan Mandal eloped with 18-year-old Kanchan Kumari and got married secretly, afraid their families would never approve due to an old social rivalry.

"The girl's family invited the boy's family for a meeting on the pretext of settling the dispute, but killed all eight and beheaded them," said Raghunath Prasad Singh, a senior police officer from Bhagalpur, where the incident took place.

Bhagalpur, one of India's most lawless regions, has been notorious for revenge and honor killings.

Men and women are still murdered across the villages of eastern and northern India for daring to marry outside their caste.

In May last year, a young couple was murdered by the girl's family in northern India for marrying within the same village, considered taboo in many communities.

What happens to these Indian guys sometimes?Are they getting crazy?

Source-The New Nation.

Technology: Get your Phone Bills paid if you Buy Two Peek Handhelds

November is not over yet.You all still have a chance to pay up your phone bills for the month instant.Yeah it's true because getpeek.com is giving you this offer.

There is a saying: The longer you wait, the sweeter is your fruit, and that means the more time you give or have patience,the result is surely going to be satisfactory and better.Just like that the longer you wait, the better the deals for the Peek email-on-the-go handheld get.At first an offer with a price drop of $80 was there and then unlimited texting and now the company is offering you to pay your whole November iPhone or G1 bills( upto &150) if you buy two peeks, one for your friend and one for you, before Monday, 1st December at getpeek.com. It means those of you with sky-high phone bills can still go for the offer and get your bills paid easily.

Health: Laughing and its Merits-Laugh more and keep yourself healthy

Who doesn’t want to laugh on this earth? When you are cheerful, you laugh. When you meet something jokey you laugh. But do you know the benefits of laughing? Well if you don’t then let’s face it.

Do you know laughing is very good for our heart? It increases the blood flow to our heart & also smoothens the blood flow. Laughing makes the heart work more and as a result our working ability also increases. It causes the pulse rate of our blood to increase and also burn the calories in our body. 50 calories are burnt at every 10-15 minutes of laughing everyday. Not only it is a good exercise for our muscles, the muscles of our body up to the neck is stretched even. Laughing keeps the muscles of our shoulder, arms & trunk active. The facial muscles are also active at the time of laughing. It is the best remedy to get rid of stress, therefore it causes the level of stress causing hormone adrenaline and cortisol to decrease, and as a result the stress in our body subsides.

Did you know that laughing can cure many diseases? It is found that laughing makes the immune system stronger. The sugar level of our blood can be reduced by laughing. The stomach is also benefited by doing so. The digestive system becomes more efficient and the blood flow to the liver, kidney & spleen increases.

So why we should keep ourselves away from laughing when it’s giving us a lot of things and helping our body in different ways to keep it well? Therefore lets laugh and make others laugh as well.