The Geneva Festival has concluded with a spectacular musical fireworks display lasting nearly an hour.

It is one of the largest and most iconic in the world, attracting around half a million visitors every year. The show, which uses around 25,000 individual fireworks, takes months to prepare.

"This year my challenge is to aim higher, to organise a show that is more beautiful than the last, more original, to always take pyrotechnics a step further. I learn more every year, which allows the show to evolve year by year."

 

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Australian Feliks Zemdegs has won the Rubik's Cube World Challenge 2013. He completed his fastest single solve in a rubiculous 7.36 seconds.

After three straight days of cubing at the event in Las Vegas, Zemdegs beat his fellow competitors with the fastest average time for solving a cube in 8.18 seconds.

Scooping the top prize in the classic 3X3 Rubik's Cube challenge, he won $3,000 in prize money, a championship trophy, and, of course, a selection of Rubik's Cube goodies.

The event took place at the Riviera Hotel and Casino where some of the world's best Rubik's Cube solvers competed in more than 15 classic and non-traditional official cubing events.
 

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One fan's dedication gets him to where he wants to be among his heroes. The Arsenal football team and manager post photos with the youngster who has just this in Hanoi, Vietnam for five miles.

As players watched from the windows, he kept up drawing cheers from the coach bigger ones when he managed to hitch a ride.

And then the moment of reward. Arsenal are in Vietnam on a pre-season tour and this will be a boost we just wonder if he'll follow them back to the Emirates.

"He looked delighted. And it should be a message for all of you guys that if you really want to pursue your dreams, it can happen and that’s what happened to him today."
 

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Record-breaking scenes in the skies above Russia, as 101 skydivers leapt from planes to form a flower pattern in mid-air.

Jumping over the town of Kolomna, the all-women Pearls of the Sky team dedicated the stunt to their former captain Irina Sinitsina, who died last year while skydiving in California. Irina had led the team last year to breaking the previous Russian record of an 88-person flower pattern free fall and this time the team left one space open in the centre of the formation to represent their "missing petal".

Meticulous planning went into the stunt with the team practising in groups of forty and sixty before successfully completing the jump with all 101 members.
 

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Diners at this Taco Bell restaurant had to run for cover when a minivan crashed through the window.

Police say the driver crossed four lanes of traffic and across verge before ploughing into the fast-food outlet in West Chester, Ohio. A woman picks up a young girl as flying glass and debris spray across the room. Two people were taken to hospital for treatment.

The van driver suffered a medical emergency just before the crash but police don't believe she had been drinking. The restaurant had only just been refurbished and as a result of the crash suffered extensive damage.

Cars for kids is the latest idea from Toyota. Thinking of how to create future drivers in the face of falling sales in Japan, it's unveiled its latest concept at the Tokyo International Toy Show.

The electric car kit is aimed at children aged 10 years and up, with two seats in the back to ferry parents around.


The head of the development team Tsuji Kenji explained: "We have to figure out how to involve children with cars and make them fans of cars in this mature sales market by making interaction with the car fun. Cars are all about fun and we want to put this out there and see where it goes."

As well as a customisable body, the car has an emergency brake located in the back which can be operated by a parent passenger and they can also limit the vehicle's speed.

Toyota has no plans to put them on sale at this time, and says they are not intended for use on public roads.