Charlie Chow proposing to his girlfriend. (Photo courtesy of Marina Bay Sands)

This is one marriage proposal that will be hard to forget.

On Friday night, 28-year-old Charlie Chow took a leap of courage, gathered his friends and performed a flash mob to the tunes of "Marry You" by Bruno Mars in front of 80 people at the entrance of Marina Bay Sands' (MBS) ArtScience Museum.

Charlie Chow performing the flash mob proposal. (Photo courtesy of Marina Bay Sands)

But little did his girlfriend of three years, Wu Wai Teng -- who was amongst the crowd gathered -- know that the performance had a hidden message minutes later, as Chow went on bended knees, with a bouquet in hand and popped the golden question - "Will you marry me?"

For the record, Wu said "Yes", much to the cheers of the elated crowd.

"A [marriage] proposal is once in a lifetime, it needs to be memorable," explained Chow to Yahoo! Singapore when asked about his unique location choice.

Chow added that he was inspired by a similar marriage proposal that took place in Downtown Disney and on the spur of the moment, decided to contact MBS to help him plan this surprise.

"Three years ago was the

Life in Japan has changed in many ways since the earthquake-tsunami disaster struck on 11 March 2011. (Reuters …

By Nick Jones

A tightened fist grips the hair of a freshly decapitated head, blood still gushing from the neck. The waxen, puffy eyed face is unmistakably that of former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who was in charge of the country on March 11 last year, when one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded triggered a series of massive waves that deluged large swathes of Japan's northeast Pacific coastline, including the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

This award-winning painting on display at an art museum near where I live in suburban Tokyo is part of a larger collection titled "Fukushima" by Japanese artist Kazumasa Chiba. Inspired by Dante's "Inferno," the works depict charred, apocalyptic landscapes dotted with corpses and mythological beasts.

As Japan reflects on the events of the past year, many in the country will share the anger that obviously fuelled Chiba's artworks. It's hardly surprising. The previous 12 months have shattered any kind of confidence the

Fishes smell sugar as danger, a study revealed. (Getty Images)

New research has revealed how fish are alerted to potential danger -- through the smell of sugar.

A group of scientists from the Agency of Science, Technology and Research's Neuroscience Research Partnership and the Duke-National University of Singapore (Duke-NUS) Graduate Medical school have figured out the nature of "Schreckstoff" -- which causes the rest of a school of fish to take off in fear when one member gets injured. (German for alarm substance or scary stuff).

They found that one component of the alarm substance is a class of sugars — specifically a type of glycosoaminoglycan (GAG) called chondroitin sulfate.

When a fish is injured, it causes the breakdown of this sugar, which is found in abundance in the skin, and it is the fragments that cause the fear response.

Using brain imaging to see how alarm signals are processed in a fish's brain, scientists discovered that one region in the olfactory bulb -- part of the brain which first processes smell -- is activated by the

Reposted from Yahoo! UK blog World of Sport

A 13-year-old boy died tragically after scoring a goal in a Sunday League football match in Staffordshire at the weekend.

Liam Wood suffered a seizure and collapsed moments after celebrating his goal for AFC Saints in a 5-0 win over Stafford Falcons in a match in Knutton, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

He stopped breathing and was resuscitated on the field by a bystander before paramedics arrived, but later died at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.

"It came as a complete shock. He was playing well, scored a goal and did a celebration in front of his dad and granddad," said Saints' manager Mark Lawton.

"He'd come back to the half-way line and the game was restarting. He'd walked a few paces and he went down."

Hundreds of people have left tributes to Liam at St John Fisher School in Newcastle, while flowers have also been laid at the pitch.

"He was brilliant, he loved football. It's an absolute tragedy and we are all still in

By Shane Bacon

Courtesy of Pacific Coast News

There are times when divorce forces people to do strange things. Burn sheets. Throw out clothes. Toss rings into the ocean. But when you get $100 million in your divorce, you can trump just about anything and that's what happened with Tiger Woods' ex-wife when she bought a S$15 million home and bulldozed the whole thing.

[Check the before picture above and the after picture after the jump]

Yes, according to TMZ, Elin Nordegren bought a S$15 million home in North Palm Beach, Fla., but didn't like it, and has plowed the whole thing.

The house, which had six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, is now just rubble, with no word yet on what is going to replace the beautiful building you see above, but I guess when you have nine figures in the bank, it doesn't really matter what you want.

I guess we can all applaud Elin on not rolling over after all this happened and continuing on with her life. But I think we can all agree on one thing: Why in the world is she still in

Picture of a shark

A 'flying shark?' This was what left the pilot shocked.

Cruising at an altitude of over 7,000 ft over Christchurch International Airport in New Zealand, the pilot spotted a flying object resembling of a shark.

Fortunately, it was just an inflatable toy. This was first reported by Metro UK.

Glen Kenny, president of the New Zealand Air Line Pilots' Association told the British daily that the inflatable shark would cause a bit of damage to the engines of the plane but the biggest hazard was astounding the pilot.

This adds on to the latest string of  many unusual flying shark sightings across New Zealand as the remote-controlled inflatable toy is a popular Christmas gift.

The New Zealand police has received numerous reports of these inflatable toys spotted in the skies of Auckland and Riverton in Southland.

The toy which is about 1.44 metres long, comes with a remote-control where users can help steer the body of the shark from as far as 15m away. This makes it an ideal toy for

Right off the runways of the world's fashion capitals, we bring you the season's hottest trends — from the latest prints to the newest silhouettes (which thankfully are quite wearable). Ladies, we present you the big fashion ideas you need to know this spring (basically, March to May).

1. Prints and more prints

Spring goes bigger and brighter this year, and totally tropical. Who cares if the leopards and reptiles have gone into hiding? We still have plenty to choose from — birds, zebras, food, florals, digital images, ornamental designs, futuristic prints… you get the idea. To keep things in this day and age, the more conservative fashionista may opt to pair a loud printed blazer with a simple black top and pants. But we say, embrace the trend that was the big pattern story of the runways — sashay down town in vibrant, swirling, head-to-toe patterns and you're bound to turn heads.

Mary Katrantzou, Christopher Kane, Dolce & Gabbana, Commuun and Peter Som Spring/Summer 2012 (Getty Images)

2. Geometric colour-blocking

It's no secret that color-blocking has been trending for a while now. Likely

The year 2011 has witnessed numerous dramatic global-scale events, what with the Japanese tsunami and earthquake, the deaths of several key international dictators and more.

Pint-sized Singapore has also had quite an exciting year, with its watershed general and presidential elections, national day entertainment and more recently, challenges in transportation.

Yahoo! Singapore puts together the biggest moments of this year, both locally and globally, and bring you our top five videos from around the world, and the top five made-in-Singapore ones:

Top 5 videos from around the world

5. Rebecca Black's "Friday"

Yes, hate it or love it (and well, we hate it), it was an international hit -- even though none of us can figure out how or why. With an amazingly bad singing voice, even with autotune (and by the way, here's what she sounds like without), the 14-year-old scored some 167 million hits on her video ever since putting it up in February. She later re-uploaded it to her own channel in