Deadly snake travels from India to Essex London: A saw-scaled viper, the world's deadliest snake travelled from India to Essex hidden in a shipping container. Volunteers from the South Essex Wildlife Hospital were called in for rescue after the snake was found curled up in the corner of a giant shipping container that had arrived at Tilbury Docks from India, the Daily mail reported.



Saw-scaled vipers are small but have an irritable and aggressive nature and their lethal venom makes them very dangerous to humans.

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07:48 PM, Aug 30, 2012

From solar houses to caves to shipping containers to empty wine vats and even graves. Which house would you stay in?French cabinet maker and designer Eric Wasser poses in front of his Heliodome, a bioclimatic solar house, in Cosswiller in the Alsacian countryside near Strasbourg, Eastern France, August 4, 2011. The house resembles a giant three-dimensional sundial, set on a fixed angle in relationship to the sun's movements to provide shade during the summer months, keeping the inside temperature cool, and during Fall, Winter and Spring sunlight enters the large windows as the sun's position is lower in the sky, thus warming the living space. REUTERS/Vincent KesslerAn interior view of a room inside of the Heliodome, a bioclimatic solar house, is pictured in Cosswiller in the Alsacian countryside near Strasbourg, Eastern France, August 4, 2011.The house is designed as a giant three-dimensional sundial, set on a fixed angle in relationship to the sun's movements to provide shade during the summer months, keeping the inside temperature cool, and during Fall, Winter and Spring sunlight enters the large windows as the sun's position is lower in the sky, thus warming the living space. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler
03:26 PM, Aug 09, 2011

Couple makes shipping containers home Ellsworth: A rural Maine couple calls home a pair of former shipping containers bought online for $1,500. Trevor Seip and Jennifer Sansosti have spent a year modifying the containers on their 63-acre property in Ellsworth, where they hope to eventually build a conventional home. Each container measures 20 feet long, 8 feet high and 8 feet wide. One is insulated, plumbed and wired. It boasts a bed and table that...  
11:14 AM, Jun 22, 2011

35 bodies of 'illegal migrants' found from container in Pak More than 100 people were inside the metal container. ...  
09:23 PM, Apr 04, 2009