Challenge News

Cleveland - People will do some pretty crazy things for money, but dunking your head into a 5 gallon bucket of urine has to rank pretty high on the list of one of the craziest.

Rubik's cubes are fun to play, and they can be quite challenging at times. However, the biggest challenge with these cubes is that one must be able to see them.

A new website allows you to sponsor friends with action rather than money. The DoNation, which launched last month, provides an alternative sponsorship model allowing people to pledge certain actions which reduce their carbon footprint rather than money.

Two men are going to run 27 marathons in 27 days each in a different European Union country. The aim is to raise money for charity in each country.

The final day three of The Great TTIS Challenge, hosted by one of the largest youth newspaper regulating across schools in Kolkata, set the countdown for the festival's 2011 avatar.

Beijing - The Chinese government announced today that it is going to raise the defense budget for 2010 to 532.1 billion yuan ($77.9 billion USD), up 7.5 percent from actual spending in 2009, the smallest increase in the recent years.

The Science and Rationalists' Association of India has issued a challenge to astrologers. If an astrologer correctly forecast the results of the 2009 parliamentary elections, he or she will be awarded $50,000 USD.

According to the N-Prize web site, the challenge is, “to launch an impossibly small satellite into orbit on a ludicrously small budget, for a pitifully small cash prize.”

The people at the 100 mile diet have issued their yearly challenge. The challenge is to take the pledge to eat only food from local sources (within 100 mile radius of your home.) This is for the month of September only.

In the UK now, schools have been told to handle the subject of homosexuality with kindness and not shove marriage into the faces of our children