NEW health and safety rules in Japan mean tourists doing Mario Kart tours of Tokyo must now wear seat belts.
The Japan Times reports the closure of a previous loophole which allowed visitors to go on the tours dressed as characters from the popular Nintendo video game without helmets, seatbelts or other safety equipment.
The new regulations are being enforced after a spate of unfortunate accidents.
Science has some disappointing news for fans of the yeti - genetic testing has found hair, teeth, skin and bones allegedly from the legendary Himalayan creature actually came from bears & dogs.
Researchers led by Charlotte Lindqvist of New York's University of Buffalo and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, analysed the DNA of the specimens selected from museums and private collections.
Lindqvist said it was the most rigorous analysis to date of yeti samples, with the genes indicating eight came from Asian black bears, Himalayan brown bears or Tibetan brown bears, while one was from a dog.
Bigfoot aficionados are looking forward to similar studies being undertaken to prove the exact opposite in the case of the gigantic, often blurrily-photographed North American bipedal mammal.
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