Drivers find it impossible to do both while taking road test

Canadian provinces started cracking down on people using phones while driving  in 2008, but the Brussels Driving Centre is forcing people learning to drive to use one. It's for those doubting how dangerous texting while driving can be.

The video was made as a Public Service Announcement in Belgium and shows new drivers crashing into pylons, spinning out of control and incorrectly spelling words while trying to multitask.

The learners were told due to new road safety measures, they had to prove they could text and drive in order to pass.

"Plenty of people will crash, I'm telling you," said one driving student when he was told of the new rule. "If this becomes law, I'll stop driving...people will be killed on the roads."

"What you're asking is dangerous," said another student while trying to drive.

This video shouldn't come as a surprise to people who have seen someone in the lane next to them looking down at their phone.

While the cosmic coincidence will occur at 11:35 p.m. EST, the best time to see it is when the moon is low on the horizon

A supermoon occurs when a full moon comes while the orb is at its closest point to the Earth. One is happening Saturday night.

The perigee — the closest approach point to the Earth — will be within a minute of the full moon at 11:35 p.m. EST. This will make the moon seem 14 per cent larger and 30 per cent brighter than other full moons, said NASA in a CBC article.

This cosmic coincidence will make the moon seem so much bigger because it will be about 26,000 kilometres closer to the Earth than its normal distance of about 383,000 kilometres. This happens because the moon's orbit is not a perfect circle.

For those going out to look, NASA said the best time to see a massive moon is before dusk when the moon is just starting to rise on the horizon. This will allow you to take advantage of the "moon illusion" that makes it seem bigger.

"When you see the moon on the

Kya tried to put her mouth around Jack, but didn't get very far behind glass at the Oregon Zoo

While it may look like this lioness is about to devour this child, she can't leave a mark because the toddler is behind glass at the Oregon Zoo.

But the glass doesn't stop Kya the lioness from clawing and trying to put its mouth around young Jack.

"I thought it was funny. I wasn't worried or anything," the boy's mother told KPTV, a Fox affiliate in Oregon. "I mean, you can see the glass is like inches thick."

Perhaps it was because the child, dressed in black-and-white stripes, looked just like a small zebra that the lion tried to make him dinner.

While this may scare some parents, Jack's parents can be heard on the video giggling and trying to get him to turn around and say hi to the "kitty."

Jack, however, seems unfazed by what is happening behind him.

According to the Daily Mail, Kya is four years old, weights 250 pounds and has been with the zoo since 2009.

Oregon Zoo workers said the

The attack only lasted 53 seconds as the deep-sea creature dragged the bird under near the Ogden Point breakwater in Victoria

Ginger Morneau was just taking a stroll along the water in Victoria when she saw a Giant Pacific octopus devour a seagull.

Morneau, her husband and her brother all watched as the octopus violently hugged the bird and pulled it under the water next to the Ogden Point breakwater in March.

She couldn't believe what she was seeing so she grabbed her camera and got some shots. The story and photos were first published by the BirdFellow Journal and are now going viral.

"From start to finish, from first photo to the last, there were 53 seconds that elapsed," said Morneau to The Canadian Press. "The struggle itself was really surreal in that it was quiet. You heard the sound of the water and nothing else."

She was standing only about three metres above the attack and while she wondered if someone was going to save the gull, she wasn't able to attempt a rescue.

About 20 per cent of people in China believe the Mayan calendar signifies doomsday

UPDATE: We have been conducting our own poll on the Front Page asking people if they believe the world will end in 2012. In the first eight hours of the poll, more than 12,000 people participated with nine per cent answering "yes." The exact same percentage as the Ipsos Reid survey.

ORIGINAL: If you think the Mayan calendar signifies the end of the world this year, you are not alone.

A new survey conducted by Ipsos Reid for Reuters found nine per cent of Canadians believe the end is near.

"Canadians are less superstitious compared to others, but they're not far behind," said Keren Gottfried, research manager at Ipsos, to Postmedia News. Younger people and those in lower income brackets are more likely to believe.

"Perhaps those who are older have lived long enough to not be as concerned with what happens to their future," she said to Reuters.

Topping the list was China, with 20 per cent of its

bridges-gettyThe crooks provided paperwork and did it right in front of police

Thieves in the Czech Republic are proving if you want to steal something big don't do it under the cloak of darkness, but rather in broad daylight right in front of police.

That's how they recently managed to steal a 10-ton bridge that was built in 1901 near the town of Sokolov in the country's west.

"Thieves said they had been hired to demolish the bridge, and remove the unwanted railway track to make way for a new cycle route," said railroad spokesman Pavel Halla in an Inquisitr article.

They used a crane to pick up the large pieces and put them into trucks.

At one point during the robbery, a police officer stopped the thieves, but they showed the officer paperwork stating an agreement with the country's railway service and continued working.

Not only did they take the bridge, but they made off with about 200 metres of railway track.

"It was only after they had gone that checks were made and we realized we'd been had.

The college dropout started to see the world in a new way after being hit in the head during a mugging

Jason Padgett doesn't have a PhD, or a Masters degree. In fact, he dropped out of college and works at a futon store, but he is a mathematical genius and has been since being brutally attacked and kicked in the head by muggers a decade ago.

The 41-year-old from Tacoma, Washington used to mostly be interested in working out and partying when muggers beat him outside a karaoke club for his $99 leather jacket. Now he sees complex formulas everywhere and turns them into diagrams.

"All I saw was a bright flash of light and the next thing I knew I was on my knees on the ground and I thought, 'I'm going to get killed," he told ABC.

Doctors initially thought it was a concussion, but then Padgett started becoming obsessed with drawing intricate diagrams. He couldn't draw before and at first had no idea what the diagrams were of.

The diagrams turned out to be fractals, small portions of a

UBC students are also known to put large objects, such as a VW Beetle, in unusual places

Hundreds watched as Massachusetts Institute of Technology students dropped a piano from the roof of a dorm to celebrate the last day to drop classes without it appearing on transcripts.

The broken instrument came crashing down from seven storeys and landing on a baby grand piano with a loud thud.

While students say in the video they were expecting more or a repeated boing or twang sound one may hear in a cartoon, they still thought seeing the piano shatter into pieces was cool.

The tradition began 40 years ago when students in Baker House had an extra piano they wanted removed. So they threw it off the roof one day. The event was observed sporadically until 2006, when it became an official tradition.

MIT students don't have to purchase the pianos, but rather people call them offering their broken instruments.

But a piano isn't the only heavy object these pranksters manage to put in an unusual