A Japanese man driving a motorcycle severed his right leg after colliding with a concrete highway divider but did not notice the injury until after driving for a few minutes and two kilometers (1. 24 miles) away from accident site, the local media in Japan reported on Wednesday. The accident happened at Nishi Ward in the city of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan. According to Japan Today, police said Kazuo Nagata, 54, was driving along the Hamana bypass of National Highway Route 1 at about 6:30 a. m. on Tuesday (9:30 p. m. , Monday, GMT) when he failed to negotiate a left turn and hit the central divider that severed his right leg about 10 centimeters (3. 94 inches) below the knee. Nagata continued driving unaware of the injury and only noticed his missing right leg when he and his friends stopped at an interchange about 1. 24 miles from the scene of the accident.

The current Guinness Book of Record world's oldest person holder, died Monday afternoon at nursing home in Fukuchi, Fukuoka Prefecture. Yone Minagawa, born on January 4, 1893, 114-year-old died of old age. She was the oldest person since January 2005 following the death of record holder Emma Faust Tillman. After Monday, the next title of world's oldest person is U. S. national Edna Parker.

The first planned hotel in space set to open in 2012 is offering the most expensive room accommodation in the galaxy at $4 million for a three-night stay, the news. com. au reported on Friday. The accommodation package at the Galactic Suite includes the flight to the hotel, an 80-minute orbit around Earth, the sight of 15 sunrises per day and eight weeks of intensive preflight training at a space camp on a tropical island.

A panda has finally settled questions about its gender after giving birth to twin female cubs in China, the Shanghai Daily reported on Friday. According to the newspaper, the 11-year-old panda named Jinzhu gave birth to twins on Monday at the Wolong Nature Reserve for Giant Pandas in the southwestern province of Sichuan. The cubs, which were born one hour apart, weighed 190 and 70 grams (6. 7 and 2. 5 ounces).

Traditionally, typhoons were cursed natural phenomenon that people pray would never hit their region. However, in the Philippines, a country hit by an average of 25 destructive typhoons annually, weather forecasters, and even the government, were praying that the typhoon slated to hit the country before changing course would turn back and hit landfall. Nathaniel Cruz, chief weather forecaster of the Philippine Astronomical, Geophysical and Seismology Administration (Pagasa), said that tropical typhoon "Chedeng" was supposed to hit northern Philippines this week, but it changed course and is now headed towards Taiwan.