Paddy Power, Ireland's largest bookmaker claimed that the Democratic nomination race is over and Barack Obama is to be the successful nominee of the Democratic party. In the early payout, a whopping $75,000 payday will go lucky bettors who backed Obama over the recent number of weeks at various odds ranging from 4/1 to 4/9.

A 12-year-old boy reeled in a 551-pound bull shark Tuesday, north of the Palm Beach inlet in Florida. The catch managed to break the state record for the heaviest bull shark caught. After spending half a day out in the water, Aidan Murray Medley, a seventh-grader at Eagle Hill School who was vacationing with his family, found himself wrestling with the fish for 20 minutes, reportedly losing feeling from his body.

The Elephant race held in Nepal on Tuesday to give a lot of enjoyment to the tourists, who are traveling to Nepal to witness one of the country's proudest wildlife attractions. A total of 11 Nepalese teams were joined by nine international competitors for the showdown that pits the best of the elephant racing elite against each other, the Sahara Samay, a news portal, reported on the day.

It used to be that thousands of Filipinos and foreigners would search the islands, spurred on by myths of Japanese World War II plunder. For decades, fortune seekers have traveled to the archipelago in search of hidden riches stolen by Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita and allegedly hidden across the island nation. However a new edict by Environment Secretary Lito Atienza will place all treasure-hunting activities under the watchful eyes of government regulation to protect the nation's natural and cultural heritage.

A virtual nuclear fusion reaction has been modeled on a supercomputer running for 20 minutes on bicycle power pedaled by 10 cyclists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The students duly claimed a world record for human-powered computing, saying the task produced more computations in those 20 minutes than all of humanity did in the first 3,000 years of civilization. They also said that more arithmetic calculations were computed than were done on the entire earth up to 1960.