worst ever ICC ranking for Australia

8 August 2012

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
South Africa	11	777	130
England	13	904	129
Sri Lanka	8	593	119
India	8	553	111
West Indies	10	663	111
Pakistan	17	983	109
New Zealand	12	708	101
Bangladesh	8	476	95
Australia	11	560	93
Ireland	11	615	88
Zimbabwe	8	234	47

World's Largest Black Out in India-july 31 2012 600 million people left without power

600 Million in India Lose Power in World's Largest Ever Blackout

Electric crematoria were snuffed out with bodies inside, New Delhi's Metro shut down and hundreds of coal miners were trapped underground after three Indian electric grids collapsed in a cascade Tuesday, cutting power to 620 million people in the world's biggest blackout.

While Indians were furious and embarrassed, many took the crisis in stride, inured by the constant - though far less widespread - outages triggered by the huge electricity deficit stymieing the development of this would-be Asian power.

Hospitals, factories and the airports switched automatically to their diesel generators during the hours-long cut across half of India. Many homes relied on backup systems powered by truck batteries. And hundreds of millions of India's poorest had no electricity to lose.

CBS News' Sanjay Jha reported that Delhi's ever-congested roads turned to complete gridlock in places Monday morning as traffic lights went dark. Police tried to man some of the busier intersections in the sprawling city.

The outage in the eastern grid came just a day after India's northern power gridcollapsed for several hours. 

"The blackout might have been huge, but it wasn't unbearably long," said Satish, the owner of a coffee and juice shop in central Delhi who uses only one name. "It was just as bad as any other five-hour power cut. We just used a generator while the light was out, and it was work as usual."

The crisis was the second record-breaking outage in two days. India's northern grid failed Monday, leaving 370 million people powerless for much of the day, in a collapse blamed on states that drew more than their allotment of power.

At 1:05 p.m. Tuesday, the northern grid collapsed again, energy officials said. This time, the eastern grid and the northeastern grid went with it.

In all, 20 of India's 28 states - with double the population of the United States - were hit in a region stretching from the border with Myanmar in the northeast to the Pakistani border about 3,000 kilometers (1,870 miles) away.

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Luxury Cars made at home!!!

All of us associate any luxury car with a huge state of the art manufacturing unit as its originating point. However, you will be shocked to know that not all of these beauties come from a completely automated robotic assembly line. These cars, which are an amalgamation of artistic design and brute performance, can actually be built from pieces of apparently worthless junk. Here is a description of 10 cars whose origin has been nothing short of a miracle.

1. DIY V12 Lamborghini Diablo

DIY V12 Lamborghini Diablo

Unbelievably, this mean machine is built in a backyard by an Englishman, who apparently took 4 years to build this fine piece of art. He has now put it up for sale. A company by the name Parallel Designs originally provided him the kits. The new owner will be a lucky man as he will be the first to drive a V12 Diablo VT 6.0 replica in England.

2. Lamborghini Reventon replica from China

DIY lambo

All of us dream of owning luxurious and expensive cars, but most of us fail to fulfill our dreams because we cannot afford them. Asan, the owner of a hair salon in Kunming, China, also had a big dream of buying the sports car Lamborghini Reventon, but he did not have enough money. However, he decided to do something that most of us do not even imagine in our weirdest dreams. He actually decided and built hisown Lamborghini Reventon!

3. Man builds Bugatti supercar

Man builds Bugatti supercar

Any auto enthusiast will tell you that the Bugatti Veyron is a legendary model. With a maximum speed of 267 mph, it is the world's fastest road legal car. However, before you drive in this wonder machine, you will have to dish out a whopping 1.5 million dollars. Therefore, a person from Florida decided to build his own Bugatti. His base was a complete 2002 Mercury Cougar coupe. Starting his way from the outside, he transformed the base car into his dream one. But the only downside is that he was not able to replicate its performance.

4. Hand-made luxurious Rolls Royce

Hand-Made Luxurious Rolls Royce

A person in Kazakhstan fell in love at first sight with the Rolls Royce Phantom. However, he could not afford the €500,000 super car. Therefore, he bought a car modification kit and transformed his Mercedes into the Phantom. After long hours of some skillful work has probably created the world's most convincing fake Phantom.

5. DIY Lamborghini

DIY Lamborghini

A Chinese mechanic showed his loyalty to his favorite brand by imitating it, literally. He took the saying "imitation is the biggest form of flattery" by fabricating the full body of the Lamborghini. As expected, it took him more than a year to get this beauty to run on the road. However, the most shocking fact is that it took him only $3000 to make it.

6. VW Beetle as electric MG TD

VW Beetle converts into electric MG TD

VW Beetle is more versatile than what you had thought earlier. Doug Small started with his small wonder and ended up with MG TD. He replaced all the steel chassis with a carbon fiber. He also removed the roof to make it into a true replica of MG TD. It took him 4 years to complete this task.

7. DIY luxury car

DIY luxury car

Unlike many other transformations, the birth of this luxury car started with a base car but was entirely created in a junkyard. This takes a lot of skill, as one should have an acute eye for useful things in a pile of garbage.

8. Camaro with the Face of a Lamborghini

Camaro with the Face of a Lamborghini

This is a classic story of a person who cannot decide if he wants a Camaro or a Lamborghini. Therefore, he decides to a build a hybrid one. At first sight, you will see a beautiful Gallarado but the interior framework is of a humble old 1994 Camaro. But the best part is that it costs only $3000.

9. Bailey Blade

Bailey Blade

The Bailey Blade is a monster of a vehicle, powered by a 5.8L V8 engine that produces 500hp at 6000 rpm. Its body was amazingly replicated in a garage by an amateur mechanic.

10. DIY BMW Z3

DIY BMW Z3

This was apparently replicated by a teenager somewhere in Eastern Europe. This teen prodigy has managed to put a 5.0L V10 from the BMW M5 into the hood of a Z3 coupe. It seems that he is in Bulgarian racing scene.