Transformer made from recycled cars with Olympic Bird's Nest Stadium in background

In comics and movies, transformers are are normally vehicles that turn into giant robots. A huge Chinese sculpture has done that, iterally, recycling old motors into a massive Optimus Prime.

The 11.5 meter (38 feet) high replica is made out of parts of scrapped minivans and motorbikes.

The recycled Autobot is being displayed in the lead up to an exhibition being prepared on recycled materials in Beijing.

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Jesus's face 'seen in Google Earth image'

The ‘face’ of Jesus Christ has been ‘seen’ in an image picked up by Google Earth.

The resemblance was found by a 26-year-old man as he used the mapping website to look for holiday destinations.

Zach Evans, from Southampton, United Kingdom, spotted the outline in satellite pictures of a field on farmland near Puspokladany in Hungary.

He told the Sun: “I’m not a religious person looking for images of Mary or Jesus in everything, but this is obvious.”

A number of people have claimed to have seen the face of Jesus in recent years.

Last week, Alex Cotton, 38, saw Jesus’s face in a drainpipe stain in Coventry.

Toby Elles, 22, from Salford, Manchester pictured an image burned into a frying pan after it caught fire.

Similar images have also been seen on a burned iron in Massachusetts and on an Ikea lavatory in Braehead, Scotland.

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Football World Cup made from Cocaine

Colombian police have at least got their hands on a version of the trophy… made out of cocaine.

The replica of the World Cup trophy was seized by Colombian authorities at Bogota’s international airport.

Airports anti-drug chief Colonel Jose Piedrahita said Colombian authorities found the statue during a routine security check by anti-drug agents in a mail warehouse at the airport. The 36-centimetre-high statue was painted gold.

The statue was inside a box headed for Madrid, Spain.

Col Piedrahita said laboratory tests had confirmed the cup was made of 11 kilos of cocaine, mixed with acetone or petrol to make it mouldable.

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Marilyn Monroe

The apparently undying appetite and endless market for images of Marilyn Monroe now extends to inside the bombshell’s body.

A set of three Monroe Chest X-rays from a 1954 hospital visit sold Sunday for $45,000 at the Hollywood Legends auction at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

Julien’s Auctions, which sold the X-rays, estmated that they would only fetch a total of about $3,000.

Other Monroe-abilia that sold included a chair from her last photo shoot that went for $35,000.

The auction included items from other actresses, including a pair of earrings worn by Kate Winslet in “Titanic” that sold for $25,000 and a dress Audrey Hepburn wore when she starred opposite Fred Astaire in the musical “Funny Face” that fetched $56,250.

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