Giant Tuna Sells For A Record £254,000
The 342kg (754lb) fish was snapped up in auction by the owners of Kyubey, an upscale Tokyo sushi restaurant, and Itamae Sushi, a Hong Kong-based chain.The previous record was set in 2001 when a 202kg fish sold for 20.2 million yen (£130,000) at the same Tsukiji market in Japan.
Sushi has become increasingly popular worldwide while the first sale of the New Year is traditionally seen as an important day for Japan's fishing industry.
Even so, the price tag surprised traders.
"It was an exceptionally large fish," said market spokesman Yutaka Hasegawa.
"But we were all surprised by the price."
Environmental groups are concerned about the levels of bluefin tuna.
The World Wildlife Fund has warned that the Atlantic bluefin will be "functionally extinct" in three years if fishing continues at current rates.
Environmental groups want to see bluefin fishing slashed or suspended.
Source:news.sky.com
Job Offers For Homeless Man With Golden Voice
A homeless man with a 'God-given gift of voice' has been swamped with job offers after becoming an internet video hit.
Ted Williams was spotted by a reporter at a road junction in Columbus, Ohio, and filmed him delivering his smooth baritone for spare change.
"A few days ago I was on I71 Columbus, Ohio, and Hudson asking people for money and it's just outrageous how all this has come to be," he told US television.
"I thought God blessed in increments and he just gave me a big deluge of blessings. I feel like a million-dollar lottery winner or Susan Boyle - she must have felt the same way."
Williams has been offered possible announcing work by the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, and the is being pursued by NFL Films and others for possible work.
He has also received a $10,000 (£6,398) offer for voiceover work from the Ohio Credit Union League.
The 53-year-old, from Brooklyn, New York, has now been reunited with his 92-year-old mother whom he last saw 20 years ago.
"I'm thrilled my only child is turning his life around," Julia Williams said in a statement.
"This will be my day to see my son get up and do something to help himself.
"He has so much talent I hope this will be the thing for him. He came from a nice family. Then he went poor, poor.
"So, hopefully, this will build him up and let him see there's more in life than hanging around with the wrong people and taking drugs."
The video of him giving voiceover lines has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
In it he says he become obsessed with radio as a teenager.
Williams said he attended broadcasting school but problems with alcohol, drugs and "a few other things" ended his ambitions and he ended up living in a tent.
He says he has now been sober for two years.
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